Are we just God's animated clay creatures?

Question

If God made us these highly technical animated clay creatures....Does God feel about us about the same way as man does about raising rats or other? If you created something out of clay and squashed it...would you feel any remorse? If you could make a clay creature technically comparable to a human and it didnt bow to you....would you squash it? or build a whole bunch and watch them, be amused or disappointed in them as if a mere experiment?

Answer 1

While man may be "animated clay" on the outside, he is much more on the inside. He has a divine spark that is capable of touching and communication with God. A spark that is a part of God himself. While all the rest of creation may be nothing more than objects God made, man is an extension of Him, designed to share eternity with Him. Just like no (decent) parent would simply squash their child like a mere experiment, neither would God simply squash man. Otherwise, looking at the condition of the world, He would have done it long ago. Rather man is made "in the image" or from the same material as God and destined for eternity.

Answer 2

Dear Cheshire,

This is a great question.
God loves us. He feels differently about us because we are different than clay creatures.

I used to say that there wasn't any god. Or that God, was unfair. That he knew the beginning and the end so what was the use? The game was rigged!

Now, I believe that the truth is knowable and it is like this.
God exists. He made the universe. He made us different than the other creatures that we know because he said "Let us make Man in our own image".

He gave us free will. Every other creature runs on some other level--instinct. We get to choose who to love and who to respect. We can ignore God. We can hate ourselves.

God looked at creation and said it was very good. The world was good. The stars were good. Woman and Man were good. He told man to enjoy creation and gave us only one rule. It was not a hard rule or a bad rule. It was just a rule meant to keep things simple and to protect us.

Evil influenced man and we broke the rule. Sin was introduced into the world.

We rebelled and were punished.

He sent us into a world that is increasingly evil, filled with sin.

God still loves us and he has a way to redeem us.He sent his Son, Jesus of Nazareth to save us. The Bible reference is Book of John, Chapter 3, verse 16 "For God so loved the world that he sent his only begotten son, that who so ever believes in him will not perish, but have life everlasting."

It sounds too simple. But it is true. For 5600 years people have been abusing God's name for their own purposes to promote their agendas. For about 20 centuries, people have been using Jesus as an excuse to promote their own agendas. People have said to me that Jesus has been the cause of too much grief, but all I can say is that people have caused the grief. People in their own misguided need to be self important have slaughtered and supressed others in the name of the church. That is not Jesus's fault.

Cheshire, would you squash the creatures that are in your own image? Would you kill your kids just because they didn't respect you? Or would you have hope? Hope that they will, given the choice, given the opportunity, given some guidance----hope that they will chose love?

God bless you.

Answer 3

No, I believe we are much more than high-achieving clay creatures. God created humanity out of love and destined us for love and, so that this could be possible, gave us free will - the power to love or not as we choose (for love cannot be forced, it is given freely or it does not exist).

Our freedom would be compromized if God did not keep her/his distance so, strangely perhaps, our ability to love God depends on having our own space to make decisions in.

I do not however agree that this constitutes lack of interaction. God interacts with creation and through creation - other objects and beings. And personally. I interact with God every day.

God feels about us as a beloved and risks everything on allowing us the freedom to reciprocate or not. A terrifying freedom when you think about it but the depth of divine love.

Answer 4

See, there would be an assumption that the god you're describing would have interaction with its creations.

And since the majority god (or all known gods for that matter) does not interact with its creations, it's almost impossible to answer. And that doesn't add to the fact that god simply doesn't exist.

But, if I were god, yes.. I guess I would be kind of childish -- like a child and a magnifying glass with ants. Or an ant farm. But, at least when we have rats, we play with or in some way interact with them.

Answer 5

God is Consciousness. God is Love. God is the Pattern (pathos/father) that underlies all development and growth in the Kosmos. God is our divine 'Mother' also, the Holy Spirit that gives Life and nourishes all Life in the Kosmos. Think bigger and deeper than what you are thinking! Your spiritual line of development needs and wants to grow so badly!

Your true Self is an expression of God. You are made in the image of Consciousness and Love. You are a child of God and you would realize this truth completely naturally as Gnowing if you unhooked from the false human conditioning (that we're all subjected to from the minute we're born). Human conditioning clouds your clarity and your natural state of Gnosis - your natural unconditioned Self awareness.

Remember who you ARE! You are an expression of God. Unhook from the grid of conditioning and be the Living Spirit you ARE.

Grace and Wisdom

Answer 6

We would be if God were just a giant cosmic marshmellow. He is the father of our spirits. He has the concern for us that a parent has. When a toddler begins to walk you have to let him fall. We can comfort and encourage them, but they have to learn on their own.

What is God's purpose? To bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man. To do this He gives us agency and an environment that we can grow and learn in. It isn't an experiment as much as a probationary state. When we have made the best in our mortal lifes, we continue on a path of eternal progression.

Answer 7

♥♫♦ He has the whole world in his hand. I believe that we have a role to play and once we play our part he already knows but there are two choices and when we choose it we have this laid out for us or this laid out for us it we decide on that road. I believe that we are God's entertainment. ♥♫♦

Answer 8

one day I saw myself like an animal, it was strange, I was nothing, I feeel I was like an ant...
But sience and experiments say that our mind has a lot of power, we make things happen, we can pass information from one mind to another and we would hav control of all the material things...
maybe we can be free

Answer 9

No we are puppets in the worlds largest ongoing puppet show, and God is the Marionette.

Answer 10

i think GOD is our animated clay creature. person to person His/Her image changes. u tell me if im wrong