Recalling Creation Ordinances in the Social Imagination ~ Part One!

Creations ordinances... nothing you can stomp out! 

If you are an atheist, you will not like and or appreciate this post. If you are agnostic, you may or may not like this post. But, if you are a sociologist, you will like this post, guaranteed.The argument looks at the source of social imagination. Social imagination is agreement reality and it is transmitted as it works in a place over time for the good of all those participating. Amidst disparity, in despair, there comes a need to hang on to what you have acquired in a place.

And for that reason, Marx and Freud thought and wrote that man in his despair needs God to drug himself/the masses so that they have a reason to live to have hope in a world of despair and disparity; otherwise fatalism sets in. Freud thought that man was afraid of nature and so man wants to believe in a God who can control nature... if we pray to God he will remove the threat of nature.  All in all, there are those that think religion comes out of psychological need. Thus, man chooses to believe out of fear, and to hold on to controlling fear, he created religion.

Well, even educated rational men act on fears, anger and disparity. When someone is accused of a crime the prosecutor has to prove that the someone is guilty and that it was their rational choice to commit the crime. They do so by attempting to discover the means/motives. Just because he/she proves that they had the means and motive does not mean that they are guilty. They/we could prove that many people wanted to do the same; but, chose not to for a variety of reasons. Yes, we make choices to do something or not; good and bad. IN that respect, one could agree that human beings have the choice or the capacity to chose/invent religion and others choose not to. 

We can also agree that we are capable of projecting ideas, wishes and fantasies. It is theoretically possible that people could invent God. But, if they do, we could argue that their choice is a rational choice as it brings comfort or hope. The same reason could apply to someone who does not see the comfort or hope in choosing God. The same line of reasoning could be used by the one choosing to commit or not commit a crime; its a rational choice to risk or not for reasons that seem to be rational at the time.

But, its interesting that man invents rationales for his actions including God. That's quite intelligent and certainly the later more so than imagining man was crept out of the sea or was created by aliens that we can nor ever could see because we are human beings. 

Yes, we do have a psychological motive to invent God. Just because man has the ability to invent God does not necessarily tell us how the idea of God came about in his mind. The reason why the world is incurably religious is because of the existence of God. More important is that we have to realize that we do have a vested interested in believing but is the atheist willing to grant me the idea that they have a vested interested in denying God.

The Creator firstly installed His Creation Ordinances, written on the heart of every single human being, at the very beginning. Man, in every society, lives under law. Christians live under the law. If you are a Christian, you will shout, "But doesn't the New Testament tell us that we are not the under law of the OT, we are under grace"? Yes, but, all of the grace in the NT does not eliminate the law in the Old and the original law (s) that we still live under - Creation Ordinances. 

It is necessary to remind Christians and all men that we live under Creation Ordinances; but since the fall, we have been falling away from them rapidly. So, we needed something to slow that down in order that God's original laws - Creations Ordinances/principles would not nor could ever be totally lost/deleted from man's social imagination.

We were thus allowed be upgraded by and in a new agreement - the New Testament which was actually contained in the Old. What is a testament. It is, a covenant/legal agreement. Yes, even though we live under a new covenant, it's still living under the law. How do we know? What is a covenant? It is agreement, a contract between two or more persons and each has benefits and promises and includes stipulations and or legal requirements. There is no such thing as an agreement without these things. 

 

Jesus said "If you love me, keep my commandments". Even though the penalty of eternal death was removed, Jesus told us that we must keep them. Christ is a commandment giving Lord. As a human being, and as a Christian, you are a member of a covenant community. That covenant was given at the beginning of creation. Therefore, every member of the human race participates in the New Covenant because of the original fixed in our hearts and minds in the beginning. 

Be sure, that all men everywhere have been participating and are in a covenant with the Creator.  Even if they are not declaring to be a Christian or in any 'church'. We know this because the Creator (God Jesus Christ) did not make his original covenant with Abraham or Moses, he made his first covenant with the first created man - Adam. A man not as Christian, Jew or Muslim but as a man, as God's creation. 

Be sure that we do not live without liabilities of that contract (laws as creation ordinances) but some think that they can escape them... they cannot escape. We can deny but we cannot undo what was given to us in the social imagination. God's laws are binding upon men whether or not they are religious or not and or members or not of the 'Christian' church. 

Review ~ Creation ordinances were given by God at the moment of creation. They are laws that God gave to all men. What kind of creation ordinances are we talking about? God built them into human relationships. God imposes the sanctity of life, sanctity of marriage as the union between a man and woman and God's design of family and the sanctity of labor. Even atheists will defend that much: life, marriage, family and even labor. And, that's because they have it written on their hearts.