{"id":6703,"date":"2016-06-06T08:00:48","date_gmt":"2016-06-06T13:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scquest.org\/?p=6703"},"modified":"2016-06-03T01:43:42","modified_gmt":"2016-06-03T06:43:42","slug":"why-did-god-create-man-as-he-did-and-not-differently","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.scquest.org\/?p=6703","title":{"rendered":"Why did God create man as he did and not differently?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Friend: \u201cWhen you imagine a robot, what do you imagine?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Me: \u201cMetal arms, legs, etc.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Friend: \u201cSomething sort of human then? But why? Why not something different? My question is, if there is a Creator, why did that God create man as he did and not differently?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That is a good question. The Bible doesn&#8217;t exactly tell us why God created us with two ears and not three, two eyes and not one, or even one mouth and not two.<\/p>\n<p>It does tell us that we are made in his image, but that is not necessarily how he looks, since we know that God is spirit.<\/p>\n<p>One could also say, \u201cIt is the best way,\u201d which is true. God knows how to create an eye, and he made ours because it was a good idea. But he also made the eye of the spider, which is very different from our own. Both sets of eyes were made by a perfect God. He knew what he was doing, and he had the liberty to be creative with his designs. But I believe there is another part to the answer that can help us with the main question.<\/p>\n<p>I have an idea, and it is mostly just an idea (and I can vaguely remember reading something about it from someone way smarter than I). It also answers only part of the question.<\/p>\n<p>Do you know how Jesus called himself the Good Shepherd (John 10), and John the Baptist called him the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world (John 1:29)?<\/p>\n<p>Do you think that Jesus thought, \u201cSheep are a good picture of humans who stray, I am going to call myself a Shepherd so my hearers will have a better understanding of myself\u201d? Or, \u201cSheep are innocent animals and used as sacrifices, so I will take this image on myself\u201d?<\/p>\n<p>If God instituted the sacrificial system with lambs, don&#8217;t you think that He would have planned on picturing Jesus&#8217; sacrifice before having engraining in his people the idea of sacrificial lambs? The book of Revelation states that the \u201cLamb [was] slain from the foundation of the world\u201d (Rev 13:8). The Jesus\/Lamb picture was not an afterthought. In other words, he was preparing his people for Jesus by giving them 1500 years of sacrificing meek animals in order that they could clearly understand what Jesus was going to do on the cross.<\/p>\n<p>God created sheep so they could be a future metaphor for Jesus.<\/p>\n<p>Now back to the question about why we have fingers.<\/p>\n<p>The Bible is full of anthropomorphisms,<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cThe eyes of the LORD\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u201cThe arm of the LORD\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u201cThe LORD heard their cries\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I think that the Creator knew that his position as a transcendent God would be beyond our comprehension, so he wanted to make it clear to us.<\/p>\n<p>If an artisan wants to communicate a truth to his child he could do so in a couple different ways. He could take an object and relate the truth to it, or he could take the truth and make an object to image it.<\/p>\n<p>With the Creator, I think he chose the second. He wanted us to understand his omnipresence, so he gave us eyes and said that he sees everything. He wanted us to understand his strength, so he gave us arms and said that his are powerful.<\/p>\n<p>But he didn&#8217;t stop there. This Creator God, apart from whom nothing was made that was made (John 1:3), took on flesh and became one of his created order (Phil 2). Jesus Christ humbled himself in order to die for us.<\/p>\n<p>I think that is part of the answer to why we look the way we look\u2026and not like an octopus.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/scquest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/9E9A1900.jpeg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6707 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/scquest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/9E9A1900.jpeg?resize=200%2C300\" alt=\"9E9A1900\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/scquest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/9E9A1900.jpeg?resize=200%2C300 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/scquest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/9E9A1900.jpeg?resize=768%2C1154 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/scquest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/9E9A1900.jpeg?resize=682%2C1024 682w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/scquest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/9E9A1900.jpeg?resize=399%2C600 399w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/scquest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/9E9A1900.jpeg?w=818 818w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>\u00bfPor qu\u00e9 cre\u00f3 Dios el ser humano como lo hizo, y no con un aspecto diferente?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u201cCuando imaginas un robot, en que piensas?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPues, brazos de metal, piernas, etc.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlgo semejante a un ser humano, no? Pero, \u00bfPor qu\u00e9? \u00bfPor qu\u00e9 no algo diferente? Mi pregunta es, \u201cSi haya un Creador, \u00bfPor qu\u00e9 este Creador cre\u00f3 el ser humano como lo hizo, y no con un aspecto diferente?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>La pregunta es buena. La Biblia no dice directamente porque nos cre\u00f3 con dos orejas, y no tres, o una boca y no dos.<\/p>\n<p>Pero, la Biblia habla que nos cre\u00f3 a su imagen, pero \u201csu imagen\u201d no significa necesariamente fisicamente, porque Dios es un esp\u00edritu.<\/p>\n<p>Se podr\u00eda decir, \u201cNos cre\u00f3 perfectamente.\u201d Es la verdad. Dios sabe como construir un ojo, y lo hizo para nosotros porque es una buena idea. Pero, Dios tambi\u00e9n cre\u00f3 el ojo de la ara\u00f1a, que es muy diferente del nuestro. Y todav\u00eda el ojo de la ara\u00f1a fue creado por el Dios perfecto. Entonces, supo lo que hac\u00eda, y tambi\u00e9n tiene la libertad de ser creativo con sus dise\u00f1os. Pero, creo que hay otra parte de la respuesta que puede ayudarnos con la pregunta principal.<\/p>\n<p>Tengo una idea, aunque solamente es una idea, y nada m\u00e1s. Y solamente responde a parte de la pregunta.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bfSabes que Jes\u00fas se llam\u00f3 a si mismo el Buen Pastor (Juan 10), y Juan el Bautista le llam\u00f3 \u201c el Cordero de Dios, que quita el pecado del mundo (Juan 1:29)\u201d?<\/p>\n<p>\u00bfPiensas lo que Jes\u00fas pens\u00f3, \u201cLas ovejas son animales sencillos y son un buen ejemplo de humanos que se pierden porque quieren seguir su propia senda. Voy a llamarme, \u2018Pastor\u2019 para que mis oyentes sepan mas de como soy\u201d? O, \u00bf\u201cLas ovejas son animales inocentes y usados como sacrificios, pues, usar\u00e9 esta imagen para mostrar mi sacrificio\u201d?<\/p>\n<p>Si Dios inici\u00f3 el sistema de sacrificios de ovejas, \u00bfNo piensas que hubiera planeado la representaci\u00f3n del sacrificio de Jes\u00fas antes de ense\u00f1ar a su pueblo la idea de un sacrificio? En el Apocalipsis dice que \u201cel Cordero fue sacrificado desde la creaci\u00f3n del mundo\u201d (Apoc 13:8). La representaci\u00f3n de Jes\u00fas como Oveja fue algo planificado, Dios estaba preparando su gente durante 1500 a\u00f1os de sacrificios de animales de mansedumbre para que pudieran entender claramente lo que Jes\u00fas iba a hacer en la cruz.<\/p>\n<p>Dios cre\u00f3 las ovejas para que pudieran ser una met\u00e1fora de Jes\u00fas.<\/p>\n<p>Ahora, la pregunta principal de por qu\u00e9 tenemos dedos.<\/p>\n<p>La Biblia est\u00e1 llena de im\u00e1genes antropom\u00f3rficas,<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cLos ojos del SE\u00d1OR\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u201cEl brazo del SE\u00d1OR\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u201cEl SE\u00d1OR escuch\u00f3 las quejas de su pueblo\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Creo que el Creador entendi\u00f3 su posici\u00f3n como el Dios transcendente y que en nuestro entendimiento no tenemos la capacidad de comprenderlo. El nos cre\u00f3 para tener una relaci\u00f3n con el, entonces quer\u00eda ayudarnos a entenderle.<\/p>\n<p>Si un artesano quiere comunicar una verdad a su hijo, podr\u00eda hacerlo de diferentes maneras. Podr\u00eda usar un objeto y asociar la verdad al objeto, o pensar en la verdad y hacer un nuevo objeto para explicar o demostrar la verdad.<\/p>\n<p>Creo que el Creador escogi\u00f3 la segunda opci\u00f3n. Quer\u00eda que entendi\u00e9ramos su omnipresencia, entonces nos dio ojos y nos dijo, \u201cYo veo todo.\u201d Quer\u00eda que entendi\u00e9ramos su fuerza, entonces nos dio brazos y nos dijo, \u201cLos m\u00edos son poderosos.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pero no lo deja all\u00ed. Este Dios Creador, \u201cPor medio de \u00e9l todas las cosas fueron creadas; sin \u00e9l, nada de lo creado lleg\u00f3 a existir\u201d (Juan 1:3), \u201cse rebaj\u00f3 voluntariamente, tomando la naturaleza de siervo y haci\u00e9ndose semejante a los seres humanos\u201d (Filipenses 2:7). Jesucristo se humill\u00f3 a ser parte de la orden de su creaci\u00f3n. El se humill\u00f3 para morir por nosotros.<\/p>\n<p>Creo que nos explica un poco porque tenemos el aspecto que tenemos\u2026y no como pulpos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friend: \u201cWhen you imagine a robot, what do you imagine?\u201d Me: \u201cMetal arms, legs, etc.\u201d Friend: \u201cSomething sort of human then? But why? Why not something different? 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