Opus 2026-221: Reciprocity

I continue to meditate on the attributes of God.  I am not sure I am making any progress.  At times it is like trying to climb the sheer face of a mountain.  You know there is a peak.  You can get different clues about it but you just can’t get very far off the ground.  Part of that is because He is God, with all that involves, and you are not.

At the same time I wonder how much reciprocity there is in the statement that we were created in His image.  We look at Him and strive to grow in His image.  How much of understanding ourselves can help us understand the Almighty.

Personhood is an example.  I flinch when I say that God has three persons, not because of the
mystery of the trinity but because it seems so insulting to limit Him by what we would consider a mark of humanity.  But again, we were created in His image so maybe the concept that we are individual, self aware, free willed beings comes to us because we are like Him.

Curiosity would not be one of those but creativity might.  Remember what curiosity did to the kitty cat.  Animals have curiosity.  Creativity not so much.  I was watching a video that said some animals make tools.  Okay.  They learn to push a stick down a crack to force a bug out.  They have been doing that trick as long as there have been bugs hiding in the ground.  When will they turn the stick into a spear?  When will they glue to sticks together at one end to make tweezers?

I can communicate with God.  I cannot communicate with a worm.  That should tell me something about myself, God and worms.

The quest to know and understand God continues.  It will be eternal and that’s a good thing.  It does not mean eternal frustration but eternal discovery.

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