Worship God Essay

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The readings so far in this class make the case that as humans our main purpose is to worship God. We do this by creating culture, cultivating the world around us in various ways, by doing this in cooperative, egalitarian relationships and offers the idea that belief drives behavior. This argument also states that when we are not acting in concert with God’s plan for us and for creation that the problems and suffering that we face in this world come about. When putting all of this together it makes a reasoned argument that is difficult to take issue with.
God and non-human creation
In the first chapter of Genesis when tracing the evolution of creation, God creates infrastructure first. He separates out the stuff of creation, water from
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They are not second place however; God takes care to provide a place for them that has all they need. There is food, there is work that is satisfying and there is companionship. God also cooperates with the humans that he created. God brings animals to the human and has the human name them. There is a secondary purpose to this, God is offering the human a chance to find a companion, someone to work with in caring for creation. The symbolism of taking a part of the human and using it to make a companion helps to show that the resulting male and female humans are co-equal. (Genesis 2:21-25) Paul in Galatians also states that there “is no longer Jew or Greek, there is no longer slave or free, there is no longer male and female; for all of you are one in Christ Jesus.” (Galatians 3:28) Humans and the natural order are connected. Humans in caring for creation allow and encourage nature to praise God. An example of this is in Psalm 148. In the first verse someone calls out “Praise the Lord”, a worship leader, perhaps human, calls on all parts of creation to praise God. Stars and the moon, mountains, fire, hail, and the wind. The wild animals and the domestic animals, and all people of every class. Nature and humans work together to praise God. This is an example of how the world would work when all of creation is in its proper

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