We Messed it Up

Human beings were specially gifted with a soul that had the goodness and intelligence of God placed inside of it. This is why God said we were made in the spiritual image and likeness of God. We can create like God. We can love and bring things into manifestation just like God. But when we were newly created, we were inexperienced and did not know the meaning of many of our choices. This is the explanation of the fall of human beings from the close connection of love and friendship with God.

The Garden of Eden story is an allegory which means it is symbolic. The part that is not symbolic is that God decided to create human beings and breathe a soul into them and that was a new creation, not any primate graduate. A human being has a soul, an animal does not. I know some of you are going to be mad about me saying that because you instill human characteristics into your dog or cat and think they are equal to you. You have not been paying attention very well if you think that. They cannot innovate or be creative. They are the same day in and day out because they are instinctual beings. They have emotions and can learn responses and tune into your energy. But they do not have free will and a conscience or a mind like the human mind. They are under human beings and we are responsible for them to love and care for them.

You may be angry now because worms, cabbages and horses are not all equal to human beings. I would just ask you to have a conversation with your cabbage and see how responsive it is. Then try to make a horse do what you tell her just by words and you will get an interesting response. They do not have mind like human beings have. God mentioned that in the early days those human beings were the stewards of creation. Admittedly humans have fallen quite low in the last many thousand years and have barely lifted their heads and hearts up to God who made them. So I can see how easy it is to mistake humans for animals.

We were created like God. Jesus said to the disciples, “Know you not, that you are gods.” He was referring to what we are to grow into and learn if we follow him and learn how to create and be uncorrupted by the world. That is our heritage, like God. Not greater than God – but like Jesus and Mary, able to be one with God.