{"id":8284,"date":"2025-01-31T12:29:35","date_gmt":"2025-01-31T11:29:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/predication.net\/?p=8284"},"modified":"2025-01-31T12:29:37","modified_gmt":"2025-01-31T11:29:37","slug":"man-has-rejected-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/predication.net\/?p=8284","title":{"rendered":"Man has rejected God."},"content":{"rendered":"\n
From the feeling of independence from God and self-sufficiency, other sins grew, but man could not wholly exclude God; He was inscribed in his soul. Man had to invent gods and false, illusory gods, those who did only what man wanted. The ever-generating surplus was the water to the mill of the early farmers’ sense of self-sufficiency. This surplus germ of wealth could be our biblical apple. The surplus creates in man a sense of strength, independence, and the ability to be on his own without the help of supernatural forces. Excess and wealth replace God. But excess is a double-edged weapon. At the same time, man becomes a slave to his wealth. He finds it extremely difficult to give it up and is willing to do anything to gain it. This is still true today and will remain accurate as long as sin reigns. God has taught the giving up of surplus from the beginning. The sacrifices of the Old Testament are clear proof of this. God does not need meat, sheep, goats, or bulls. He needs men to be able to give them up. The sacrificial animals must not be defective. They must be first class, for these are the very animals man did not want to give up. Remember Cain and Abel. Cain probably used what he would have thrown away anyway for sacrifice; Abel used a valuable sacrifice, and God looked upon it. About 10,000 years before Christ, there was an unexpected cooling. It lasted more than 500 years. The man was faced with a dilemma. Survive or perish. Plants suitable for consumption, too. The man threw all his energies into agriculture, saving him. Agriculture meant a great flowering of humanity, significant surpluses, and thus the emergence of civilization, but also a departure from God. What to say in conclusion. The claims of the devil, in the form of the devil, that you will be like God were a lie. We could not do without God in the love of man for man. God saves us; we are still drowning in our pride, resentment, and hatred. The devil lied about what this means\u2014simply admitting to myself that I am not enough. That is the first step of returning to God. We must humbly accept our weakness and powerlessness to do good. Twelve thousand years ago, we pushed God away with words. Please leave us alone; we have enough on our own. We are like You. Humanity expands ever more than energy.<\/h2>\n
A Neanderthal needed just as much energy to exist as an ibex. Man, at the beginning of the agricultural era, only about half as much. By the time of Tutankhamun and Moses, it was already 4 times more. The Romans already consumed 9x more energy than an equal-weight ibex. The man of the 19th-century industrial revolution has already surpassed the ibex by 30x. Today’s man consumes 50x more energy for his existence than an ibex. Where will this lead? Scientists are making it clear that we are on the brink of an energy and ecological crisis that will grow into a catastrophe if we do not tackle it. Greed and recklessness, a market economy in economic terminology, are the root cause of all today’s global problems. It is up to man to solve them<\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"