Gods And Such

There is a human trait that is unchallenged. That is: we can't get enough of anything...even if it is bad for us.

For years, centuries or milleniums before our God made His entrance to this world with Abraham, we were doing fine with our own gods. Since I don't believe in evolution, this is kind of tricky. But let's take evolution as a fact for just a minute.

Hundreds or thousands of man-made gods littered the landscape. We have them with every culture on every spot on the planet with the possible exception of the American Indian. The Japanese had and still has thousands of gods. So do the East Indians. The Egyptians had them, the Romans had them...everybody had them.

Why? They were looking for something bigger than themselves. Something better. Something more grandeur. Something that would put a nice cap on human life by permitting a life-after-death. Sometimes even the rulers of kingdoms called themselves gods after a while.

They carved and crafted statues of every kind from mud to hardened granite. They used precious jewels. They used gold and silver. But they always got their god.

Usually they only had to look up at the sky at night to get an inspiration for a god. Like the Greeks did. And the Romans. Today we still find traces of gods buried in the dirt from thousands of years ago.

But their gods didn't have one important feature. Their gods didn't talk to them. They just stood there, motionless, and didn't say a word. Like a good wife should be.

Then came our God. A serious, down-to-earth God who spoke to Abraham and Moses among others. He actually talked to them. He had had enough of this god business and He issued a proclamation about gods in His ten-commandments. It is very, very clear. And it was very strong since it took up one whole commandment from only ten. Simply put, you don't make a god from anything on or in the earth or sea. Nothing.

We now had Him. Then came Jesus Christ. The world was changed forever.