Chapter 64

If you believe the totality of nature can only exist on causes beyond itself, you have made your first step toward the correct view of theism (which means belief in the existence of God). There is, of course, no question that religious people always claim the whole of creation is for man while science continues to discover that it is not. No one with any degree of respectable intelligence though would suggest that man, or even the entire universe was sufficient to fill the mind of God completely. If we as people are small compared to space and time then surely space and time is a much smaller thing in comparison to God who actually created it. God is beyond all things, both big and small. He is the original cause, the great self-existent I AM.

It is a philosophical mistake and an error in the proper use of correct judgment to assume Christianity ever proposed that all of creation was made for man. The universe was made partly for reasons we do not know, but we are a part of it, that we do know. There may be countless bodies floating in space much like (or unlike) our Earth that harbor life. There may be endless variations of life that exist elsewhere of which we can form no good conception. These other forms of life may or may not have needed redemption like the human race did, we just do not know. The universe may have many things in it that are quite dissimilar in nature from life as we know it in which God is interested though we are not.

The critical point here is this: We must never falsely assume size is in any way related to our importance in the eyes of God. We should not allow the fact that we ARE small to make us FEEL small or somehow insignificant. God is incomparably enormous and immeasurably superior and beyond anything our finite, little minds can possibly imagine, but always remember: He created us. He loves us. That makes YOU special on a cosmic scale. You DO matter in the eyes of God, and He is intensely interested in a personal love relationship with you.