The Man. The God: Ability Explained

Man is a lesser dichotomy. He is a superior paradox. 

par·a·dox

ˈparəˌdäks/

noun

• a situation, person, or thing that combines contradictory features or qualities
• a seemingly absurd or self-contradictory statement or proposition that when investigated or explained may prove to be well founded or true

The creature wears a paradox:

Man as flesh:

An organism bent and fashioned into an intricate fabric of flaws; a bungling animal susceptible to the same trap he set for others, a pathetic animal whose fallacies ensnare him at whim. That coherent totality characterizes his life and life as he sees it. His limitations confine his reach. He does only what he feels he can accomplish.

Man as a ‘god’: 

An indomitable spirit; an unconquerable creature given to resolution and resilience even the most formidable test cannot subjugate. This being is an alpha animal that can survive the most brutal onslaught of life. An irrepressible creature of faith, a divine being he is. The totality of his entire being defines his life and life as he sees it. His reach tames his limitation. He does what he decides to do, even those he feels impossible initially, and does it. He does what he feels only he can accomplish.   

The first is mortal: An orderly, parasite that exists on assurances. 

The second is divine: A wild, self-assured whirlwind of faith, action, and fight.

If you are flesh, you are mortal. If you are man, you are divine. God says mankind is his children. Follow the logic: Lions beget lions. Therefore, if you are a child of God, you are a divine being set in flesh. You are not mortal. You are a demigod.

We are demigods. We are gods in flesh.  

Prometheus in the Universal Neighborhood

The unfathomable chronicles of history, the art and literature of the ages, and the incorruptible lessons the lives of great minds and personalities left us, continue to teach us profoundly about the man. The puny man is a god.

Here is how...

‘Gods’ that walked in the form of minds such as Galileo Galilei, Louis Pasteur, Albert Einstein, Stephen Hawkins, and enumerable others more who explored universes before even fathoming the world in which they had existed.

‘Gods’ that walked in the form of survivalists such as David Livingstone, David Canterbury, and Mykel Hawke and innumerable others more who faced – and survived – some of the most brutal whims and vagaries nature could hurl at them.

There were gods that existed in the form of Michelangelo, Van Gogh and Rembrandt, and Picasso and innumerable other beings that tamed the colors of our beautiful universe and gave her face functionality, and personality. Pablo Neruda, Paulo Coelho, Mary Angelou…

There were gods that walk the way John D Rockefeller, Florence Nightingale, and Mother Teresa, as do Bill Gates and Warren Buffet and innumerable others; they saw the world through the eyes of innovation, prosperity, and purpose, or healing and redemption for the suffering multitude. 

As you see, since life in this universe began, history has continued to preserve the lessons left by personalities who defined cultures, politics, economies, technology, medicine, and education and innumerable other fields of human engagement. They are lessons left by men who planted ideas and innovation to enhance the quality of life; beings that brought healing to the sick or stood for peace and justice. They fashioned philosophies and education that made the world a thinking humanity. They gave humankind a face acceptable to the superior tenets of goodwill, truth, progress. They translated the purpose of man in this life.     

We are demigods, do you not understand. Now do you wonder why the Bible says that in Christ we are all children of God?

Lions beget lions. Tigers beget tigers. Each begets likewise. We are divine because, are we not children of God?

An artwork depicting the 'Captain of the Host', Emmanuel. I took the liberty of using the image from Jeff of Archangelclk. I loved his explanation of angels, and how God walked on earth in the form of a man.

The God Quotient and Birds: Power Explained  

Then, you ask, why are we humans by function, by form, and by purpose? If we were gods – or demigods, for interpretation – we could do anything, right? Maybe even fly? Hunger would not topple us, bullets would fail in stopping us, and our knees would not hurt if the skin tore off them? Scroll to the top of this article, and read ‘Human as a Man’ – especially the last line to it.  

To accomplish something is not by attribution – it is by decision. In other words, my friend, you are who you see yourself as.

Birds can fly because they are not humans as much as birds cannot be as humans and drive cars because the feathered creatures are not humans. Each of us, every organism, in this world has a unique form, function, and purpose. You could fly if the human body came with wings! Birds could drive cars if their bodies came with hands, feet, and analytic intelligence.

Each of us, every organism, in this world has a unique form, function, and purpose that works perfectly with what you can do, and what you choose to accomplish. Never make the mistake of letting conventional definitions of capability deceive you. Remember: Birds could drive cars if their bodies came with hands, feet, and intelligence. Your inability to fly does not make you a lesser being. You cannot fly because your human body does not come with wings!

Your purpose is different. And just because you do not possess the physical ability to fly, does not make you any less a divine being. The purpose of your very self as a creation is decidedly different because you were meant to fulfill something that the winged creatures were not chosen to fulfill. Likewise, birds fulfill a purpose humans do not have approval to fulfill. Hence, some have wings, some have fins, some have arms and legs. And minds.  

Your inability to be the other does not make you any less of whom you are. Just because you cannot fly as a bird does not make you any less a god – it just means you have a different purpose as a god to fulfill in life. Look at the great people of great minds, and great hearts I have listed in this thought – why are they few? Because, they did, engaged, and created things puny humans did not and could not. Scroll to the top of this article and read ‘Man as a god.’ You are who you think you are, and do what you think you can. 

You are who you think you are, flesh or divine. The great people, great minds, and hearts listed in this article were people who created airplanes and spaceships. They were minds that created economies to feed and build nations, created technologies to aid living et al.

The same God that told us we were his children also tells us that we can do everything through Christ. In simple words, we can do what he can do. In interpretation, doing what he can do makes us the same as him.

You can do anything when you have decided you will do something. Look at mathematics-incompetent Albert Einstein. Look at the deaf Beethoven. Look at Christian-turn-Atheist-turned-Christian Robert Browning. Look at Bach; look at Goethe, Look at Kepler, Bob Dylan, Copernicus, Schubert, Wittgenstein, look at Truett Cathy, and look at John D Rockfeller, Norman Miller, Abraham Lincoln, George Foreman, and even path-breaking Human Genome scientist Francis Collins.

All great scientists, philosophers, thinkers, musicians, poets, business tycoons, from technocrats to technologists, physicists to businesspersons from both the ancient and the modern world, show us what it means to believe in what you can do. God promises: we can do anything though Christ who gives us the ability to not only do, but also succeed.  

You can do anything, and succeed in it, if you decide so. That, in translation, means we are more then flesh. We are gods by Faith in Jesus. 

If lions beget lions, we are gods. For, God is our father. We are children of God in Christ. A child of God in Christ. Lions beget lions. We are gods. Lions beget lions. You are indomitable, all conquering, in Christ. 

Do not let your heart be hardened. God will not show you signs and wonders -- he is not predictable. He has already equipped in you all that you would need to fight, to win, to learn, to prosper and bless. Your abilities are spirit. You only have to choose between flight and fight. You only have to choose between whine and win. 

"God said, 'Let us make man in our image, in our likeness'” (Genesis 1:26). 

Lions beget lions. You are a god. In flesh.     

© 2014 Of Gods and Birds Al Ngullie © 2012 Al Ngullie