Jealousy is a Sin: Respect is a Honor
God, the protagonist in the story, is portrayed as a very egocentric character. In chapter eleven, of the book of Genesis, the human race or mankind begins developing a society and a culture. The whole humankind creates and uses one language and builds an entire city, and instead of God being happy for his succeeding creations’ thriving lives, he destroys their advances by confusing and separating them.
The character of God does not think about his actions and the effects they have on his creations. For instance, there was no reason behind him ruining mankind’s city. He made mankind, and there fore is directly related to the reason that humankind was able to build such an amazing empire.
The people of Earth were not trying to over throw the Lord God; all they wanted and needed was a well-structured society that made sense. But, because of God the furtherment and evolution of humankind was slowed because he was so bothered by the fact that people wanted to live a good life and enjoy other tasks then reproducing and tilling the land.
God’s love for his own unique high power creates a barrier between mankind and evolution. Human nature is to exceed expectations and God made humankind, so the humankind is in need of respect from the great creator.
Sarah, you bring interesting thoughts into your thoughts of God’s morality. First, my confusion begins at the end of your writing reflection piece. What are you trying to say with, “Human nature is to exceed expectations and God made humankind, so the humankind is in need of respect from the great creator?” This statement sounds a little incomplete to me because the parts of the sentence do not relate. How does human nature for exceeding preset goals have to deal with respecting the great creator, God?
Also, to contradict or question some of your statements, God’s character is all- knowing and powerful and in creating man, the greatest gift he could offer is the gift of freewill where man is free to make his own choices. As a divine teacher and not simply an unthoughtful creator, God made man aware that there are consequences of decisions of actions. One of the greatest gifts God gave is where people’s futures are not preordained but instead they can chart their own courses.
Just as a director of an impromptu theatre group may give the actors a scene or setting and turn them loose, the director may give them instruction in the way he wants it preformed, but the overall outcome turns to how they express themselves. The quality of the play may range from brilliant to dreadful depending on the performance of the actors, but it all is also subjective. The audience may have different positions on who did the best or whether they enjoyed the performance, but the extremes for good or bad always stand out.
I think you hit a really profound insight in that God’s own unique high power causes a barrier between evolution and humankind. Although this insight is very well thought out, I believe it is because of God’s craving of power that he changed the languages of all the peoples.
Whoever wrote the bible, decided to portray God as a power-starved character. When a creature gets close to god in terms of power, he smites any chance that creature has of becoming equal to him.
Although God is perceived as wise in the bible, and he very well may be, he eludes wisdom when he has these urges for power. The wisest people see power as a tool but also as a device to self inflict pain. Power gets in the way of some of the more important things in life.