Then Along Comes Man

 

  Now we move along to God's crown jewel of creation.
   It was good that God created planets and stars and choose one planet to populate.
   The highest peak of His creation was man. Why? Because only man was created in the image of God. Man was created to have a relationship with his Creator.
    We read that God walked and talked with man in the garden. Man had all he needed or wanted.
     Man was created innocent. Innocent in the area of being a blank slate. He had nothing to distance himself from his Creator.
     God, as a loving creator met man's needs.
      Being created in the image of God he was like a child just learning. God was sort of a parent. man was the child. God said here was one thing man was not to do. To test man's obedience God said in love that there was one thing man must not do. "Of all the tress in the garden you shall eat. But of the tree in the middle of the garden, the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you are forbidden to eat-- or on the day you do so you shall no longer be able to fellowship with me.
      All went well, Until that day which will be covered In the next post.
      God wants fellowship. He wants a relationship. That relationship was broken. Man was the one who broke it, not God.
       The image was bent and man sought a relationship in other things, not God.
       Just trying to make you wish to read the next post. See you there.

God And History

  We live in a world that is two sided. We have the physical universe in which we can see, touch, feel, taste, and we live also in a spiritual universe. This universe we can't see, touch or feel with our normal senses. But it is there.

   History records the events in the physical world. History is just the what of things. History can be known because facts are written down and placed in books. History is not about meaning .
    History is possible because there is a God.  We can know about this God because He has chosen to reveal Himself to all. He has spoken and has caused to be written the Bible. This, I contend, is His communication. It records history.
     I also contend because there is a God there is a meaning to history. God adds meaning to history.
     When we read the Bible we have to add the dimension of theology to get to the meaning . Without theology as a tool we have no meaning to history.
      In other words, there must be a God to give meaning.
      You have a better chance at understanding history if you have a relationship. Without this relationship you have no meaning to what is recorded in the history books or in the Bible.
      Maybe you don't have any type of relationship. Maybe you need to redefine 'relationship'

A good place to go to explore the idea is here. Click on it and it will take you to a web page on the subject. And you may wish to take part in the offers there..