Extemporaneous musings, occasionally poetic, about life in its richly varied dimensions, especially as relates to history, theology, law, literature, science, by one who is an attorney, ordained minister, historian, writer, and African American.
Thursday, January 26, 2017
DIFFERENCES
DIFFERENCES
Mankind's making of God in the image and likeness of mankind, itself, did not end with the mere external appearances--like color, gender, hair texture--but, rather man's casting and portrayal of God reached inside to the spiritual, the emotional character of God as well.
God was given man's emotional make-up. Joy, sadness, anger, jealousy, regret, were among many human attributes, and emotional characteristics, that have been given to God by mankind's faiths.
In Genesis 6:6, for example, we see that :
"The Lord regretted that he had made human beings on the earth, and his heart was deeply troubled."
"Regret" is as human as "heart," as is "he had made"; human attributes are all three: regret, heart, and he had made. God is outside time or space. Yet, mankind personalized God, then he later personified God!
"My ways are not your ways; my thoughts are not your thoughts," says the word. But, we often differ !
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