cordell (cordell)
07-03-2005, 07:02 PM
“But I have memories,” weeps Rachel. Deckard explains that they are probably those of her creator’s niece. “Here’s a picture of me with my mother–I was six years old.” Deckard again adds to her disillusionment – Tyrell had implanted memories and feelings in her to keep her from suspecting that she was anything but human. Yet Deckard had discovered her secret through the skillful use of the V-K machine which measures her empathic responses to certain questions. She has come to realize that she is a creature. Made. Made by someone for their purposes. For their pleasure. To serve someone else. She had no idea but now she is heartbroken. Although our Creator is not an evil Tyrell–however the enemy would like to paint Him–we, like Rachel of the campy 80s film, ‘Bladerunner,’ do not like being ‘creatures.’
We don’t like to consider that we are made for a purpose, and we devise ‘purposes’ of our own to validate our experiences. We are repelled by the consideration that we were made for the pleasure of another, so we invent pleasures opposite to and poor replacements for our original purposes. Since listening to the first lie, we are prone to leave – and indeed hate – the God who made us. You shall be like God, knowing good and evil. We were created–made–in his very image, walking with him daily, able to do all he required but we fell for the lie. You shall be like God. What was it about this temptation that was tempting? It was that we were to not just ‘know’ as in being able to discern but rather to determine, to have the say as to what is good and what is evil. And we are bedeviled by this curse yet, insanely calling evil good and good evil. This is how we became idolaters.
Is it any wonder that the Lord, writing with His own finger put the commandments in the order that He did? “You shall have no other gods before me.” The words ‘before me’ have a peculiar significance do they not? They mean ‘before my face.’ We are always, inescapably in God’s face with nowhere to hide, yet we choose to make gods of our own devising. We make gods that are either too convenient, too distant, too demanding, too much like–well, too much like us. We are prone to leave the God who is love, who became one of us.
When we think of all the adulation lavished on a single person at GGWO and we recognize idolatry for what it is, we need to see our constant tendency to fall. No one should be lord over our consciences but God who knows our hearts. Our God is not a man that He should lie, He is not approximately six feet tall with a handspan of nine inches. We are not made in His physical image, because He is a Spirit who must be worshiped in spirit and in truth. We are made in his moral image. He is alone worthy of our worship, praise, honor and glory. He made us to befriend us, not out of necessity. He made us to enjoy us and he desires that we should eternally enjoy Him, not that we should become the moral, psychological or emotional slaves of another creature. Jesus died to justify sinners. To make them stand in His place before God, holy and righteous just as he was in our place receiving the full impact of our judgment. This gospel is particularly for creatures, as the Scriptures say:
And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.
And again:
Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
We don’t like to consider that we are made for a purpose, and we devise ‘purposes’ of our own to validate our experiences. We are repelled by the consideration that we were made for the pleasure of another, so we invent pleasures opposite to and poor replacements for our original purposes. Since listening to the first lie, we are prone to leave – and indeed hate – the God who made us. You shall be like God, knowing good and evil. We were created–made–in his very image, walking with him daily, able to do all he required but we fell for the lie. You shall be like God. What was it about this temptation that was tempting? It was that we were to not just ‘know’ as in being able to discern but rather to determine, to have the say as to what is good and what is evil. And we are bedeviled by this curse yet, insanely calling evil good and good evil. This is how we became idolaters.
Is it any wonder that the Lord, writing with His own finger put the commandments in the order that He did? “You shall have no other gods before me.” The words ‘before me’ have a peculiar significance do they not? They mean ‘before my face.’ We are always, inescapably in God’s face with nowhere to hide, yet we choose to make gods of our own devising. We make gods that are either too convenient, too distant, too demanding, too much like–well, too much like us. We are prone to leave the God who is love, who became one of us.
When we think of all the adulation lavished on a single person at GGWO and we recognize idolatry for what it is, we need to see our constant tendency to fall. No one should be lord over our consciences but God who knows our hearts. Our God is not a man that He should lie, He is not approximately six feet tall with a handspan of nine inches. We are not made in His physical image, because He is a Spirit who must be worshiped in spirit and in truth. We are made in his moral image. He is alone worthy of our worship, praise, honor and glory. He made us to befriend us, not out of necessity. He made us to enjoy us and he desires that we should eternally enjoy Him, not that we should become the moral, psychological or emotional slaves of another creature. Jesus died to justify sinners. To make them stand in His place before God, holy and righteous just as he was in our place receiving the full impact of our judgment. This gospel is particularly for creatures, as the Scriptures say:
And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.
And again:
Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.