Now I would like to share the Lord God's original intention which is stated explicitly in the very first chapter of Genesis in God's Constitution. Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. Then God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”
You may have noticed, the Lord God did not say he was to have dominion over another man. There are many other references throughout God's Constitution that also clearly expressed God's original intention. For example: God's representative Isaiah states that God created the Earth specifically as a habitation for all humanity. Take a moment to read: For thus says the Lord, who created the heavens, who is God, who formed the earth and made it, who has established it, who did not create it in vain, who formed it to be inhabited: “I am the Lord, and there is no other. Keep in mind, in God's plan, the earth has always had a purpose. The Lord God never intended to create the Earth and then leave it empty. From the very beginning, long before He formed the Earth, God envisioned it would be filled with plants and animal life of every variety; all of it overseen and ruled by human beings created in His image and exercising His delegated authority.
God's Constitution states: The heaven, even the heavens, are the Lord’s; But the earth He has given to the children of men. God's desire was to extend His kingly rule from Heaven to Earth, but He did not want to do it personally. Instead, He chose to create human beings in His own image, spiritual beings inhabiting physical bodies perfectly adopted to inhabit the natural realm. Now remember, the earth has been given to mankind. Any religion, therefore, that teaches or emphasizes leaving the planet we call earth, to live forever in some other place, misses the point and, definitely, God's original purpose. If we are eager to leave the earth forever to live somewhere else, then we misunderstand God's original intent.
I will continue this tomorrow.
Genesis 1:26-28 Isaiah 45:18 Psalm 115:16
~~W.R. Luchie
You may have noticed, the Lord God did not say he was to have dominion over another man. There are many other references throughout God's Constitution that also clearly expressed God's original intention. For example: God's representative Isaiah states that God created the Earth specifically as a habitation for all humanity. Take a moment to read: For thus says the Lord, who created the heavens, who is God, who formed the earth and made it, who has established it, who did not create it in vain, who formed it to be inhabited: “I am the Lord, and there is no other. Keep in mind, in God's plan, the earth has always had a purpose. The Lord God never intended to create the Earth and then leave it empty. From the very beginning, long before He formed the Earth, God envisioned it would be filled with plants and animal life of every variety; all of it overseen and ruled by human beings created in His image and exercising His delegated authority.
God's Constitution states: The heaven, even the heavens, are the Lord’s; But the earth He has given to the children of men. God's desire was to extend His kingly rule from Heaven to Earth, but He did not want to do it personally. Instead, He chose to create human beings in His own image, spiritual beings inhabiting physical bodies perfectly adopted to inhabit the natural realm. Now remember, the earth has been given to mankind. Any religion, therefore, that teaches or emphasizes leaving the planet we call earth, to live forever in some other place, misses the point and, definitely, God's original purpose. If we are eager to leave the earth forever to live somewhere else, then we misunderstand God's original intent.
I will continue this tomorrow.
Genesis 1:26-28 Isaiah 45:18 Psalm 115:16
~~W.R. Luchie
