We are not a Masterpiece

The bible says we are created in the image of God, but if God has no physical body, if God is neither male nor female, then what image do we share? what we share in relation to God is everything that is holy about God and Adam was the very representation of that image, he was a incorruptible being of pure goodness. If God cannot sin, cannot fail, cannot error, then it makes perfect sense his image cannot defect. I raise the question, how does this carry any possibility if the image was molded with the very hands of God, lets pay very careful attention to that phrase, “molded with the very hands of God.”  These are the very hands of God that cease to error, cease to fail, and cease to sin, we are his artistry made with love and care, there should be no error with the image.

But Adam did defect, Some would retort, “but Adam possessed freewill that’s why he ate of the apple” but this doesn’t make the slightest sense if Adam was created in the truest image of God, it’s unthinkable in those aspects Adam falling because God cannot fall. It may be true he possessed freewill, but his freedom is only limited to his abilities and how far his mind extends. God must be confident enough the image cannot defect in the same way a artist tries to creates a masterpiece, but the artist cannot create one because he is incapable of perfection because the word masterpiece generates different personal various opinion. But we are talking about God here, a supreme being that overpowers us in every possible way, God is a masterpiece because none of us can compare to his nature. If God is intrinsically good, then the image must be intrinsically good. If God is intrinsically powerful, then the image must be intrinsically powerful, but we are not powerful and we are defiantly not good, so then there’s seems to be something very wrong with the transfer. A being with intrinsic power creates only masterpieces, He cannot create defects unless it was intentional. If God created a masterpiece without later knowing it would be defected, it would really display the impotence of God, it would display his lack of power because error is generate in man, but not a God. Reason tells me, you can only lure in greedy men if you show him something he has not attained and if it is attainable, what separates us from not possessing it, is if humans didn’t have the intrinsic ability to gain it, the desire for more power is our personal trait. Of course, this only works in a world of our current condition, but not in a world of Adams we would assume. Yet, Adam was persuaded and leads it me to believe he was made incompletely.

So then we are not a masterpiece, then it makes perfect sense why we suffer and because of our incompleteness, this would later make sense when we meet a man called Christ. Because we are incomplete, Christ tries to integrate himself into our being to make us full and complete. Maybe our existence needed this direction, so that we can feel desolate, filled despair and loneliness, to have us lack something we cannot accomplish with our abilities of merits, to give man the ability to complete himself with God when he has lost all hope in a broken world so that he may become a masterpiece.

Dr. Manhattan written for the argument of God

I read the watchmen graphic novel, saw the movie and watch the motion comic, and I couldn’t help but notice that Alan Moore sets up the stage for the argument of God exemplified by Dr. Manhattan aka Jonathan Osterman. It’s very obvious from watching the movie or reading the graphic novel that Dr Manhattan has the status of God, the only real character with powers, but who unfortunately doesn’t use his powers to benefit anyone and causes more confusion to other characters in the story, thus he is a character that is mostly misunderstand because his perception of the universe is vastly different than humans. I think we can all agree that Manhattan has lost touch with his human side and has become more than a human being. As we further read (or watch the watchmen), we find out he can perceive time itself, but unfortunately cannot alter it and we learn more about him in the 3rd and 9th issue of the watchmen comic. There is a quote from C.S Lewis from his book, “the problem of pain” which explains why God cannot do the intrinsically impossible that goes against his own nature and for some odd reason cannot alter or change the cosmic laws for the sake of mans selfish desires.

“We can, perhaps conceive of a wold in which God corrected the results of this abuse of free will by His creatures at every moment: so that a wooden beam became soft as grass when it was used as a weapon, and the air refused to obey me if I attempted to set up in it the sound waves that carry lies or insults. But such a world would be one in which wrong actions were impossible, and in which, therefore, freedom of the will would be void: nay, if the principle were carried out to it’s logical conclusion, evil thoughts would be impossible, for the cerebral matter which we use in thinking would refuse it task when we attempted to frame them. All matter in the neighborhood of a wicked man would be liable to undergo unpredictable alterations. That God can and does, on occasions, modify the behavior of matter and produce what we call miracles, is part of Christian faith; but the very conception of of a common, and therefore stable, world, demands that these occasions should be extremely rare.“

There is a scene in the watchmen graphic novel where the Comedian aka Edward Morgan blake and Dr. Manhattan are in a bar after winning the Vietnam war. A Vietnamese women walks up to the comedian, holding her stomach implying if he’s finally gonna take responsibility. As stubborn as the comedian is, they argue, through-out the whole ordeal, Manhattan stands and watches as The comedian guns down the Vietnamese women and his child. “Blake she was pregnant, you gunned her down” says Manhatton, in which Comedian replies, “Yeah, yeah, that’s right. Preganant women. Gunned her down, bang and you know what? you watched me, you coulda changed the gun into steam or the bullets into mercury or the bottle into snowflakes! you coulda teleported either of us to goddamned Australia…but you didn’t lift a finger! You don’t really give a damn about Human beings, I’ve watched you.

I think how the comedian expresses himself here embodies what most of us think when we are told by religious folk “God can do anything”, but only later to realize God did nothing and we suffered a great pain. Is this not the argument we furnish against God when we all suffer, the comedian replies, “yeah, you watched me…but you didn’t lift a finger”
It’s no wonder why humans will always misunderstand God if they don’t account of the bigger picture that works around them. God cannot intervene in a cosmic law that is already set by him, does God have the ability to alter it? I’m sure he does, for the sake of human suffering why does he have too.  Selfish desires would be bigger than God if he had allowed the rules to be bent, thus, we are just as angry as the comedian because in the midst of all the suffering where is God to prevent it. Manhattan has the ability to change, create and destory matter, we see him fix a broken glass, organize gears in a machine, recompose himself after he’s been destroyed into nothing and yet, he couldn’t prevent human choice and emotion from their eventful suffering and I ask myself why. Is this not the same reason why we argue against God for not doing enough, Manhattan has drifted away from his human nature just as God isn’t human. Lets try to imagine that Manhattan is God in the watchmen story, how much of this would make a difference. It seems Alan Moore tried his best to include the qualities of God in a story of watchmen that includes human suffering as a element and Dr. Manhattan as the underlying metaphor of God.

Rorschach says it best, “From then on I knew… God doesn’t make the world this way. We do.”

The disbelief of God

The greatest ignorance of all is the disbelief of God, those who have denied it, have not felt the dread that he might exist. If we are considering the idea that God might be an existing being, then he is primarily more fearsome than hell, satan, the ani-christ, and the lake of fire itself. These are places and beings that are undoubtedly created by no other being than God. I ponder who is rightly more deserving to be feared, yet I am led to believe that God is more deserving. This fear isn’t caused because he might exist, it is caused because what power he possess at his will, is what I generally fear. We are insignificatly small compared to the universe, so how can we assert confidently that there is no God, the greastest mystery is what lies beyond the unknown in the universe, we are oblivious and yet persistent in finding existence comparable to ours and even if we don’t find anything, we can still marvel at it’s beauty. Isn’t God part of that same unknown mystery that lies around us, can God be found? can he be understood? is he beneth our feet? can anyone acknowledge the certitude of Gods existence? men have personal emotional experiences but not enough valid proof for the doubters and skeptics, ancient men have tried, but failed against modern science. If we think back when ancient men intellectualized the world, it was without scientific knowledge, that the sun was an Egyptian God formally known as Horus. Humanity has evolved and technology was born like a spore, we now understand that the sun is not a Egyptian God named Horus, but nuclear energy. We’ve turn on the light switched and revealed there is no dragons lurking in the darkness, truth is exposed, yet God lingers still. Is God becoming smaller in our minds as cilvlization advances in technology and science, perhaps God will become a anient relic of the human mind.

Has modern man abandon God from their intellect? will religion become a esoteric practice as we advance in technology and Science? or will religion evolve or tag along with it?

What endures the will to live?

A man commits suicide when he feels hopeless, but what about those who continue to exist even with no hope. Why is life worth living when others have given up to live with you. If a fool is all they’ll ever see, what endures the will to live when all have lost hope in him. Is it his fear of death that has prevents his suicide, or maybe it is merely some future hope that keeps him alive. But a better future only has consequences if you change what you are now, if we are inspired for a better future, then maybe our existence is more valuable than our stature and image then we realize. I have substituted the word ‘motivated’ for ‘endure’ because life is painful and living through it is our suffering. If anyone can answer it, maybe it’ll help him to live.

Gods love as illogical

It is apparent to me that God desires humanity to expand its common form of love and extend it beyond themselves, of course only through the Son there is new life and the expansion of our minds, but none of it can be accomplished by human will alone. Through that disappointment, I understand that Gods love is nothing more than illogical, and requires you to betray your human nature and instict for a selfless spiritual life of righteousness, where christ integrats himself into you. Christ died for the sins of mankind, rightly so, but how it was expressed was the result of Him willingly to take the whips and the destruction on his body. Any smart man would fight to survive, but the grace of God denies even that because the love of God requires us to turn the cheek. I highly doubt God would thinks of it as illogical as his view of life is vastly different than our shallow perspective. But I am human, I want my satisfaction now and care not about pain, but if any man is ready to lead a life of christ, then be prepared experience  a great pain because humanity will suck the very life outta you until you are just as close as dead.

If anyone has observed nature, then you know what I mean by human love,  If you can paint a world with no laws, then what follows afterwards isn’t human dignity or decency, just chaos. Centuries have past and humans beings have become more civilized, yet advanced civilization doesn’t minus the animal nature in human beings, we only get better at protecting ourselves and killing one another.  I believe this this paints the naked truth, because the only people you’d be protecting are those of your family, relatives and friends which are all very reasonable beliefs. and when that time has come, where is perseverance, the forgiveness, the patience God requires of us when the world has gone mad. It’s reasonable to protect yourself and your loved ones and hate your enemies simultaneously, if we break this down into science, then it primal instinct, which is a strict human behavior. If anyones disputes this idea, then clearly you must be original, but modern man doesn’t pay you back with a snack after you have destoryed part of his/her life. I am not stating human beings are despicable, I am stating human beings are “capable” of being despicable time calls for it. Take no insult to this idea, for it would be silly for me to debate with a man who loves his family and hates his enemies, there is no benefits in trying to please them for they would just take advantage of your very efforts, that I can understand, but I am trying to understand the love of God in my ignorant human perspective, because if God exist, then we are wrong by defult and our enemies are the very lives we are trying to save.

Matthew 5:46-47
For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the tax collectors do the same? And if you greet your brethren only, what do you do more than others? Do not even the tax collectors do so?

It is apparent to me that Gods love requires more than that basic kind of human love we are all so very familiar with, Gods love defys a commonality in us. What is expressed in that passage is clearly explained and interpreted that Christ followers will do more than love themselves. The idea of grace is that no matter what you do, you cannot be rewarded with grace, it is, as the bible states, a free gift of God and requres no merits form yourself. It is a great confusion to any man to be told that God loves you unconditionaly. It is a great confusion to myself and all I am saying is that Gods love is illogical when it is express to a human being.