The Creation of Man
But who are you, O man, to talk back to God ? “Shall what is formed say to him who formed it, ‘Why did you make me like this?’ ” (Romans 9:20). The Bible tells us that man is a creation of God. How ironic it is then that if there is anything we humans deny and resist with all our power, it is the fact that we are creatures. When Satan tempted Adam and Eve in the garden, it was to deceive them into rejecting the limitations of creaturehood and make them think they could become gods. The atheistic German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche said that man’s lust for power is what makes him different from all other creatures. History has demonstrated that man cannot stand the fact that he is a creature. Take an honest look at yourself. Do you have trouble with authority? With humility? We have these problems because we do not like being creatures. We want to be gods. We do not want to concede our dependence on anything or anyone else, and we do not want to be subordinate to anyone