God has a Plan. And His Plan includes variability for our race starting, at the molecular level, at conception. We are a part of God’s Plan whether we like it or not. Does that make it tough on people? Yes, it does. The whole idea is repugnant. It feels like being a white mouse caught up in some scientific experiment. Like being a mouse in a lab run by a make-up company. Like being a mouse and having face powder rubbed in your eyes three times a day. Living as a mouse in that lab until you develop cancer of the eyelids. I guarantee that the mouse doesn’t like it. This idea is messy. It is hard to believe that God planned this. No, God did not start with the idea that women would suffer spontaneous miscarriages. God’s Plan also includes unintended consequences. It applies here. God’s Plan was to have a constant stream of genetic variability that allows our species, all the species, to adapt to changing conditions. Changing conditions like, wet tropical forests giving way to savannah grasslands due to mountains being uplifted by geologic tectonic forces and disrupting moisture bearing air flows across continental areas. In other words unexpected consequences. Accept it, deal with it. God will do as God pleases. God’s will be done. It is as it is, as God wills it, not what we want it to be. Soul Placement Plan #3. This idea could be a third kind of timed proficiency test. Today we know from brain research that individuals do not fully complete their brain maturity until about age 25. This is when social judgment is what we call “adult”. This is when personal decision-making and planning are what we call “adult”. This is when fully formed inhibitions are what we call “adult”. The first assumption, about a possible delay for when God “slaps” you with some of His soul, is possible. All things are possible to God. He could give you a soul at birth. He could give you a soul at age five, or six, when humans exhibit thinking beyond self. A third assumption is also possible. It is very possible that God just uses a mechanism that is still simpler. The K.I.S.S. mechanism. Keep it simple, stupid. What may happen is that as an individual’s brain matures, the body perhaps “grows” a kind of electro plasmic amount of soul. This could be based on the complex interchanges between the neurons in our brains. When it reaches a certain level of activity, it becomes “soul”. Then that piece of soul matures as we age, learn, and experience over a lifetime until it becomes fully “ripe”. Upon our death, our soul goes to God to provide Him with new learnings and becomes a part of God. This idea at least does not violate the concept of a distant, noninvolved, inattentive God. God cast His seed upon the land. God cast His seed upon Earth, as He has in the past. God cast His seed everywhere in the Universe. He continues to reap His harvests from His Gardens of the Soul. This last idea is simple. It has the advantage of not necessitating the development of some complicated system. A system for winkling out through reason a determination of how and when a person “gets” his soul. Each person grows his or her own soul. The simplest solution is the most elegant solution. This also makes learning obviously much more important than we have believed in the past. A God that does not pay attention to humans is one thing. A God that has to focus on every hospital delivery room is one idea. A God that has to follow every midwife around is another. A God that has to attend every birthing hut on the planet would be very busy. A God that has to intercept all erupting neonatal human newborns is another. This is less Godlike than the usual concept of God. That would be a too active picture of God. Of course, He might have a vast troop of minions, underlings, angels assigned to this planet. Each angel with a Santa Claus sized sack of ectoplasmic soul balls. Perhaps they are similar to paint balls? A angel just waiting to shoot each infant with its own "soul ball" as the doctor plays “catch” below the stirrups. All things are possible to God.
(c) Copyright 2006: George Wallace recently published a book on religion which lashes out at nearly all of the comfortable ideas about God, the trappings of organized religion, and the priesthood. His pithy comments and suggestions for a return to a God-centered personal religion will interest everyone. This article may be freely reprinted so long as all copyright attributions, and the full content of this resource box are included. www.OhGodIsThatYou.com
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