God is commensurate with man.
Dinosaurs did not know God, could not know "God." Nor did mastodons, saber-tooth tigers, or any other long begone earthen animal, before man.
Yet they existed for hundreds of millions of years on this planet, as their fossils and footprints do show.
Mankind is the latest accretion to this biosphere and this solar system. However long mankind has habituated the earth, no scientific estimate exceeds 5 million years, however hopeful it may be.
With mankind, the concept and notion of God began, as mankind searched for an insight and understanding of himself, and of herself, including all else that now appears, in this vast time and space.
So man fashioned God, and God fashioned man; as man fashioned fire, and as fire fashioned man.
All that we fashion inevitably fashions us, commensurately. Be it warfare or weaponry or religion or education or form or fashion. There is an inverse correlation between the maker and the made; a symbiosis.
Thus, mankind over the eons of its existence has distinguished itself from its animal predecessors by formulating and by formalizing the awe and wonder of the essence of life, along with its dread and detritus into a system of praise and worship, which in turn, has served to regulate relations between men and the living.
Thus, God is commensurate with man. Even the Bible says "Ye are Gods," in Psalms 82:6. So there!
Let the church say "Amen!"
Dinosaurs did not know God, could not know "God." Nor did mastodons, saber-tooth tigers, or any other long begone earthen animal, before man.
Yet they existed for hundreds of millions of years on this planet, as their fossils and footprints do show.
Mankind is the latest accretion to this biosphere and this solar system. However long mankind has habituated the earth, no scientific estimate exceeds 5 million years, however hopeful it may be.
With mankind, the concept and notion of God began, as mankind searched for an insight and understanding of himself, and of herself, including all else that now appears, in this vast time and space.
So man fashioned God, and God fashioned man; as man fashioned fire, and as fire fashioned man.
All that we fashion inevitably fashions us, commensurately. Be it warfare or weaponry or religion or education or form or fashion. There is an inverse correlation between the maker and the made; a symbiosis.
Thus, mankind over the eons of its existence has distinguished itself from its animal predecessors by formulating and by formalizing the awe and wonder of the essence of life, along with its dread and detritus into a system of praise and worship, which in turn, has served to regulate relations between men and the living.
Thus, God is commensurate with man. Even the Bible says "Ye are Gods," in Psalms 82:6. So there!
Let the church say "Amen!"