manning5 wrote:
I just began to puzzle over the semantics of your comment. Is this not your belief:
1) God created the Universe, Heaven and Earth ,the galaxies, stars and planets and all thing living and not living in the Universe and,
2) God created Man and Woman, and they were created in the Universe. I suppose also, God created us for the Universe in some sense, i.e. for the Universe to become populated at and for His pleasure.
Fundamentally, I am a skeptic, in the original sense. I am searching for an answer but have not yet found one that is entirely satisfactory.
Most religions place the creation of the world/universe before the creation of mankind. Therefore, it makes more logical sense to see us as accessories rather than something so special that a universe was made for us. Seeing it that way also conforms to the theory of evolution. We are late comers.
It is my opinion that God, wh**ever that actually is, is the creator of everything that is. We, humans, are animals exactly like all the other animals in the universe. We have, for wh**ever reason, grown in mental capacity to a remarkable degree... but the animal nature is still within us.