GOD AND MAN

GOD AND MAN Discover Your Creator M AN has never fully understood himself, let alone trying to understand the Almighty. He visualises God in his image and vice versa. Human history is the story of this mistake and its consequences. To think of God to be like man is to try to bring God to the human level. All forms of theism and polytheism are a product of this mistake. Both are different names for making assumptions about God based on wrong analogies between man and God. We come into this world through biological parents. It was assumed that God, too, must have parents, that there must have been someone before God, who brought God into being. Man denied His existence because the eternal God is not physically visible. Observing himself, reflecting on the fact that he himself is a creation, should have led man to acknowledge the existence of the Creator. But given this analogy that man drew between humans and God, he was not ready to accept Him. Those who accepted God have also erred. To get things done, it is common practice to carry recommendation from people with access to power and authority. Accordingly, they assumed that God too, had some special people, who were very close to Him, who had great influence in His court and whose recommendation God accepted. Human beings are swayed by emotions. Decisions taken in an emotional state ignore facts and tend to be flawed. People believed that God had a special link with members of a special group or community, and that His relations with them were altogether different from His relations with the rest of humanity. All such beliefs are a negation of God’s divinity. But people often cling to such baseless thoughts and imaginary beliefs. To consider oneself to be like God is to imagine that one is the master of one’s destiny, and completely free to do or to abstain from whatever one wants to. It leads to devising the principles of life as per wishes and To think of God to be like man is to try to bring God to the human level.