We now get a lot of the creation/world view theology of the gospel. The first thing is that God created the world. Some believed that the world just was, others that it came about as a by-product of conflict between various "gods". The truth is that the world was created on purpose and for a purpose, and we were created on purpose and for a purpose. Please note that it is not necessary to believe in a 6 day creation or" intelligent design" in order to believe that the world was created and designed by God. It is quite possible that evolutionary processes play a part (and a designed part at that) in the creation process, but I am sure that evolution does not explain everything. The key thing is that God created us. This is as important today as it was then. For some extreme evolutionists seem to delight in us and the universe supposedly being the product of purely random processes and utterly without meaning. This is nonsense, it is even nonsense from an evolutionary science perspective! We have meaning, and that meaning is found in Christ, through whom all things were created and have their being (Col 1:17-20)
God does not live in man made temples. Stephen made a similar statement in his speech in Acts 7, and this is relevant to both Jews and Greeks. The Jews revered the temple, and Athens was full of temples, indeed you can still see many of them today. God is not dependent upon us, and He certainly was not invented by us!
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