11.6.06
... Of Mankind
The creation of mankind is hard to understand and we are not supplied with much more information regarding this. What about the theory of Evolution?
Well, maybe there was some evolution, and when conscience entered the creature, it became the "first" man? I have no idea!
And maybe this is not for us to speculate on this. If God had intended to make it clearer, I believe he would have done so. He probably deems we know enough as it is, and the miracle of life is still not understood by anyone honest enough to admit it. The theory of Evolution is being questioned by scientists all around the world.
To me the saddest thing about this theory is that as he believes he comes from the beast, the Man lost sight that he holds a spark of the Divine inside. He then turns into a beast again, as he is persuaded he's nothing more than an animal that came into existence by chance, and not a creation of God, not an eternal soul in a tabernacle. We are so much more than what we think. Mankind is precious to God.
What I know from the Bible and from Science is that human beings appeared at the end of that fantastic formation of our world. The Bible expresses that we are kings, that we are in "God's likeness". We physically look like God and Earth was formed for mankind. Humans were meant to rule, but respect, the world and its creatures. Indeed, in the text, the first man gives names to the animals and God validates these names. He has dominion over them and the rest of the Creation, but there was no bloodshed: The man was commanded to be vegetarian and eat of the fruits and cereals the land produced.
Flora carries its own seed in the text, but the Man does not, hence the differentiation of the sexes: God created the humans (created in his likeness) male and female. It tells me that male fatures need to be completed by female ones, and vice versa, in order to be "whole" and closer to God.
Mankind cannot be on its own, people need a counterpart, to relate to others.
God commanded the man and the woman to have children to replenish the land and to be the masters of the place, the garden, he had given them. They were meant to raise a family and rule the world, reporting only to God.
The woman is a part of the man, in the image of God as much as her male counterpart. In the text, they were equal. The idea that the woman is ruled by her husband is not what God had intended, it only came after the Fall. How sad it is that the Fathers of the Church used Genesis to undermine women and made up that the Fall was because the man and the woman had sex!
God "saw that the creation was good", not just its components, but as a all, and he rested, making the first Sabbath.
The Gnostics' account of the Creation differs in the sense that it is a lesser god who created the Earth and that the woman came to the man in order to open up his eyes, hence making them eating of the fruit a necessity. Once again, the ancients accepted variations in the telling of the creation of our world and of the human race, and I don't think we should close our eyes to other accounts from other faiths or from Science, as long as we don't make these accounts weight any more than Genesis.
Well, maybe there was some evolution, and when conscience entered the creature, it became the "first" man? I have no idea!
And maybe this is not for us to speculate on this. If God had intended to make it clearer, I believe he would have done so. He probably deems we know enough as it is, and the miracle of life is still not understood by anyone honest enough to admit it. The theory of Evolution is being questioned by scientists all around the world.
To me the saddest thing about this theory is that as he believes he comes from the beast, the Man lost sight that he holds a spark of the Divine inside. He then turns into a beast again, as he is persuaded he's nothing more than an animal that came into existence by chance, and not a creation of God, not an eternal soul in a tabernacle. We are so much more than what we think. Mankind is precious to God.
What I know from the Bible and from Science is that human beings appeared at the end of that fantastic formation of our world. The Bible expresses that we are kings, that we are in "God's likeness". We physically look like God and Earth was formed for mankind. Humans were meant to rule, but respect, the world and its creatures. Indeed, in the text, the first man gives names to the animals and God validates these names. He has dominion over them and the rest of the Creation, but there was no bloodshed: The man was commanded to be vegetarian and eat of the fruits and cereals the land produced.Flora carries its own seed in the text, but the Man does not, hence the differentiation of the sexes: God created the humans (created in his likeness) male and female. It tells me that male fatures need to be completed by female ones, and vice versa, in order to be "whole" and closer to God.
Mankind cannot be on its own, people need a counterpart, to relate to others.
God commanded the man and the woman to have children to replenish the land and to be the masters of the place, the garden, he had given them. They were meant to raise a family and rule the world, reporting only to God.
The woman is a part of the man, in the image of God as much as her male counterpart. In the text, they were equal. The idea that the woman is ruled by her husband is not what God had intended, it only came after the Fall. How sad it is that the Fathers of the Church used Genesis to undermine women and made up that the Fall was because the man and the woman had sex!
God "saw that the creation was good", not just its components, but as a all, and he rested, making the first Sabbath.
The Gnostics' account of the Creation differs in the sense that it is a lesser god who created the Earth and that the woman came to the man in order to open up his eyes, hence making them eating of the fruit a necessity. Once again, the ancients accepted variations in the telling of the creation of our world and of the human race, and I don't think we should close our eyes to other accounts from other faiths or from Science, as long as we don't make these accounts weight any more than Genesis.
# poster: Mormon(s) of another kind at 14:06 
