I am meditating or contemplating on the concept presented in Genesis that human beings are made in the image of God.
Genesis 1:26 (KJV) And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.As always, when I meditate, my mind goes into free-range chicken mode, which means that I find it almost impossible to follow a prearranged trail. I think that is one of the aspects of what it means to be created in the image of God.
I just finished watching some of the Star Trek movies that were made about 10 years ago. There were good times and bad times. I generally enjoyed but I noticed a certain tendency among the villains. They were certainly nasty. They were certainly brutal. They were incredibly powerful. But in spite of the aura of superiority that was given to them, none of them were particularly creative or intelligent.
That made my mind segue to the concept of computer games. I’m not a big computer game person when it comes to all this advanced graphic stuff the young people seem to like. I don’t have the physical reactions to make things happen and I don’t have a commitment to figuring out how to make things happen. What frustrates me the most is how the computer cheats. Computers cheat. They are programed to do that. The only thing the computer has going for it is that it can change the ratios.
In most of the games I play when you come up against a superior enemy they’re only superior because the computer gives them, say a three to one advantage instead of a two to one advantage. You as a human being can work out strategies to deal with the two to one advantage, but it doesn’t work with the three to one advantage and now you have to figure out a way around that. When you are successful in the computer changes, the ratio to four to one.
Which brings us back to the image of God. Someone once pointed out that in the past million years robins have not developed a new way of building a nest. In the same way so-called intelligent dolphins have not come up with any way of making life better for themselves. In that timeframe, assuming that you go with the Earth being older than 4000 years BC, human beings have a come up with continual innovations and new ideas.
Enjoy your image.
homo unius libri
Amen
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