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Man in God's image
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Sat, 31 Mar 2001 08:00:54 GMT
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Greetings! Wow, I was following the debate on whether God has a name for
God. It is certainly an intersting discussion! One thing I found unsettling
is the notion of God creating man in His image. Although I consider it a
noble belief, I think it is also a dangerous idea since it has gotten man
into so much trouble.
Think of the brutality and destruction humans have unleashed on each other
and against their earth in the name of their creator, and in the name of
man? I believe this idea of divinity, of placing ourselves above all and
that this world was created exclusively for us, has weakened mankind and
crippled the earth. Mankind seems to have divorced itself from nature, going
against it and throwing the world out of balance. We've treated our divity
as a green light to strip the earth bare of anything ripe for the plucking.
In this sense, man has truly forsaken his creator.
Our technology advanced way before our ethics and sensibilty. We remain
aggressive, territorial and brutal-- surely this cannot be a relfection of
our creator's image? No animal in the history of life on this planet has
killed more of it's own species than homo sapiens; how easily we destroy our
creator's image. And the killing goes on and on, in the name of democracy or
communism, or the new old religion: capitalism. We are told that God created
the earth and Heavan. Indeed, man has created a place worse than Hell,
because at least only the sinners suffer there.
Dan
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Message has 3 Replies:
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| It's nice to hear your interest in this, Dan. I do have an answer for you, but I have to go to work now. --Ryan (...) unsettling (...) going (...) plucking. (...) our (...) or (...) created (...) (23 years ago, 31-Mar-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
| | | Re: Man in God's image
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| (...) And minifigs are created in man's image... Remember when they introduced Pirates? Peglegs, hooks and eye patches abounded. Suddenly, my Dark Ages reversed and then my LEGO began to try to kill each other like civilized people. Kind of makes me (...) (23 years ago, 1-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
| | | Re: Man in God's image
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| Daniel Jassim wrote: [snip] (...) Our ability to advance, learn, create, and invent are reflections of the Creator, but aggressiveness, territorial-ness, and brutality are not. They came about because the first man, Adam, disobeyed the one command (...) (23 years ago, 2-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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