The Old Testament states that man was made in the image of God. But does that mean that we should see God as an image of man? There are many ways we may be created in the "image" of God without necessarily "looking" like God.
For example, the atoms that we are made from resemble astronomical bodies (atoms resemble solar systems and galaxies). Our neurons are fired by the same electricity that permeates the Earth and the Universe in the form of lightning and electrical storms. We are made with the same material that everything else is made of; isn't God everywhere and everything?
Is it not arrogant to think that we are God-like? Is it not self-centered to believe that we are an exceptional being and closer to God than any of his other creations? Are we really that important?
We used to think that Earth was at the center of the Universe, than we made our Sun at the center of the Universe, than when both theories were proven wrong we made our galaxy the center, and again we were wrong.
It seems that we have a tendency to put ourselves in the spotlight of God and the Universe. Is this a proverbial “slap in the face” of God, and ultimately causing harm to ourselves with our pride and vanity?
2007-01-21
06:56:31
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