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stpurl
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It is true that people are made in the image and likeness of God. But (at least until recently) even my old Chatty Cathy doll from 1961 would not be confused with a real live child despite her saying a couple of phrases when you pulled the string.
So what we know or attribute to God is based upon our understanding, which is limited.
And of course when it comes to death, it is something that God had to make clear. . .and which He did again as far as limited human understanding could take it.
Humans in the time of the chronicle in question understood a ruler as a being who could act ‘as he saw fit’, who had the power of life and death over his subjects. They tended to look upon God as being the ‘highest of the high’.
But God, as creator, actually DOES have the right of ‘life and death’ over His people. He gives them life (there is still no answer to natural pure science as to how life ever started far less how the universe itself started, and scientists acknowledge that outside some kind of cause ‘outside’ of the universe it could not come into being ‘on its own’, so there is no ‘life principle’ that just evolved and led to people just growing. There was an original, and yet unknown scientifically speaking origin to life. We believe in a creator who gave us life but the life in a temporal plane is not eternal. It is however outside the temporal (or the natural world) eternal.
A comparison could be in a limited way to the child in the womb. The child exists inside the mother’s womb, fed and nourished by the mother. . . Then at some point the child is born and will live as an independent being. What the child heard indistinctly in the womb is now clear; there is a new experience of ‘light’, the new function of breathing with lungs, etc.
Well, our human life span on this temporal world is like being in the womb. At some point our physical bodies will cease to function and our souls will continue onto the supernatural planes of heaven or hell and at the Judgment, we will have our physical bodies remade in a way that they will function forever in that supernatural plane.
We believe that the Creator Himself gave us this understanding and many other teachings that will help us not only to function most effectively on earth but will ‘stretch’ our mind/soul to enable it to be ready for existence in heaven.
But to go back to Chatty Cathy, we humans despite being images and even children (through Jesus) of God are not, in this physical plane, gods, and we do not possess the understanding of God. We in effect limit Him if we claim that He must confirm to our views of morality, even if those views are the imperfect, but still righteous, views per the Bible.
For HUMANS in and of themselves do not have the moral authority to create life and death. God does. What God may allow may be perceived, again imperfectly, as a wrong according to God Himself, unless He has commanded it.
So what we know or attribute to God is based upon our understanding, which is limited.
And of course when it comes to death, it is something that God had to make clear. . .and which He did again as far as limited human understanding could take it.
Humans in the time of the chronicle in question understood a ruler as a being who could act ‘as he saw fit’, who had the power of life and death over his subjects. They tended to look upon God as being the ‘highest of the high’.
But God, as creator, actually DOES have the right of ‘life and death’ over His people. He gives them life (there is still no answer to natural pure science as to how life ever started far less how the universe itself started, and scientists acknowledge that outside some kind of cause ‘outside’ of the universe it could not come into being ‘on its own’, so there is no ‘life principle’ that just evolved and led to people just growing. There was an original, and yet unknown scientifically speaking origin to life. We believe in a creator who gave us life but the life in a temporal plane is not eternal. It is however outside the temporal (or the natural world) eternal.
A comparison could be in a limited way to the child in the womb. The child exists inside the mother’s womb, fed and nourished by the mother. . . Then at some point the child is born and will live as an independent being. What the child heard indistinctly in the womb is now clear; there is a new experience of ‘light’, the new function of breathing with lungs, etc.
Well, our human life span on this temporal world is like being in the womb. At some point our physical bodies will cease to function and our souls will continue onto the supernatural planes of heaven or hell and at the Judgment, we will have our physical bodies remade in a way that they will function forever in that supernatural plane.
We believe that the Creator Himself gave us this understanding and many other teachings that will help us not only to function most effectively on earth but will ‘stretch’ our mind/soul to enable it to be ready for existence in heaven.
But to go back to Chatty Cathy, we humans despite being images and even children (through Jesus) of God are not, in this physical plane, gods, and we do not possess the understanding of God. We in effect limit Him if we claim that He must confirm to our views of morality, even if those views are the imperfect, but still righteous, views per the Bible.
For HUMANS in and of themselves do not have the moral authority to create life and death. God does. What God may allow may be perceived, again imperfectly, as a wrong according to God Himself, unless He has commanded it.
