Q&A

My friend, you’ve got the sequence and the logic a little off. The Creator God has a plan; He is intentional and strategic. Here’s the backstory. God created this universe as a 3-dimensional colony of heaven, His Kingdom’s headquarters. He formed man’s body from the newly created place, Earth, but then breathed His Spirit into Adam’s nostrils. This indwelling spirit would serve as a modem to transmit God’s desires and man’s requests from heaven to Earth, back and forth. He gave governing authority to His greatest creation, mankind (“Let us make man in our own image…” and “let them have dominion”). The Lord rightfully expected a loving, collaborative relationship with His Governor, Adam. We originally had immense liberty to run the colony as we wanted because the Lord could count on us to follow His developmental strategy. God operates a Kingdom, not a religion.

I did, although I would prefer to exchange the phrase “religious person” for “spiritual believer.” Religion is man’s attempt to prove himself to God. It separates and objectifies others. It controls adherents by requiring ritualized performance. Religion is a ‘Tower of Babel’ attempt to justify ourselves to God. But what provokes it? Notice across cultures, millenia and geography that mankind has exhibited a profound search for meaning. We just know there’s something greater than ourselves ‘out there’. This is a spiritual yearning which demands an answer.