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How can I say: God created me in his own image?
The human being is not an object that can be fabricated in a lab as genetic engineering and the cloning scientists think they can do. Every human is a unique, unrepeatable being, existing in function of a superior project. We are born and we live because someone has thought, wanted and created us with the cooperation of two spouses. No human can simply be a genetic project, fruit of ingenious and daring scientific discoveries. Man is man not for having a body (even if reproducible in a lab) but because he is an incarnate spirit. And spirit is the vital breath, or better, divine spark that makes it possible for an embryo to be a human being, a personal “me”. There is not only something superior, but something divine in every human. A human is the fruit of a mysterious project and of an act of love anterior to that of two persons, a man and a woman. This is the first mystery that envelops every single human being. As Mahatma Gandhi said, “Life is too great a mystery to be understood exclusively from a human point of view.” Life is a gift from God.
Life is a very precious gift from God. I agree with you sr that it is only when we come to know why we were created that we start living life accordingly. We live for God for we are His. Whether alive or dead we belong to God.
Estella from Zambia wakalapl@coppernet.zm |
Did God really create me free?
Human beings are not robots or puppets in God’s hands. On creating a human being, God gives intelligence to discover and will to love him as the Creator to whom everything is owed. Human liberty is yet another mystery. God does not force us to believe. He wants us to attain conviction by ourselves. Faith is not an imposition but a gift to be accepted and a free human choice. Faith renders us sublime, because it strengthens the intelligence and boosts it beyond its natural powers. It uncovers before our eyes God’s project ever more explicitly.
What is the real sense of my life?
The sense of life is linked to the problem of faith. Either, one believes in God and lives in the hope of attaining him, or one does not believe in God and plods on as if suspended in a vacuum. One entrusts oneself either to God or to blind chance. There is no third alternative. On the other hand, faith in God does not destroy our freedom. God has made us humans, i.e. beings that think and decide freely, and precisely because of this free will, are responsible.
The most beautiful underlying reality is that we are not alone. We have not been created and then abandoned to face the great adventure of life single-handed. Though leaving us free, God somehow keeps us close to him. He expects to be discovered by a human intelligence and freely loved by a human will. We are made to love God. To be made in order to love is the deepest human dimension, which gives sense to a human life. Faith is akin to an interior fuel, which starts off love.
See more in the book
GOD AND HAPPINESS
101 Questions and Answers
By Antonio Ugenti
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