Have you heard of the saying that “God created man in the image of himself”? What if this is true?
Every one of us have a mind of our own, a consciousness. We are able to think, process and act independently if we truly want to but often than not we have “rules” or settings that bind us to our roles. Some say that God is the one who is the maker and it is God who had created each and every one of us and everything that we can see, hear, smell, taste and touch. God is all around us and he is in every grass, every rock and every tree. God is the almighty and he is the one that guides us. Our lives belong to God and it is God that can decide when it is time for us to “meet our maker”.
Assuming that if God made us and image of himself, we are “God” (or at least mini version of God), Think about this question: “What is life?”
I should be able to safely assume that most people can agree that cells are living things, so a cell is a unit of life. Like us it is able to nourish itself, secrete its waste. A cell is able to grow, reproduce and die like any other living thing.
Some guru once said that you can understand the language of the universe even by observing a grain of sand because all things are one. We are all connected. And that we can learn everything we need to know and we have all the knowledge in the world because all answers are found in “collective consciousness”.
Let’s go back to the assumption that we are “God”. The question then becomes: “Are you a living thing or are you a collective living beings?”
How many cells do you really have in your body? I can’t say for sure but it is a lot. What if every single cell has a consciousness? And that every cell is able to function independently on it’s on. What is there is a whole different world in us, a world that is filled with billions and millions of living cells communicating and interacting with each other. Wouldn’t it look like the world we are in? Where billions of human being going about their daily lives communicating and interacting with each other and yet collectively we are supporting / destroying the life of our planet, our universe or even our “God”.
Who are you? I asked myself many times and yet I could not get a good answer. Are our hands and legs and eyes and organs and cells us? Or must we have them all before we are who we are? Are we the mind that controls the body, if the mind is no longer detectable by machines we are no longer who we are? Do we have the rights to determine our own life and that we have the rights to choose our life or death?
All of the questions are complex to me.
If we are the image of God, we have created life within us, trillions of lives in the form of cells. We have the power to determine their fate. If we cut ourselves, fall on the ground or even blow our nose we are killing hundreds if not thousands of cells; hundreds if not thousands of lives! If all lives are created equally, then we are a sinner, a big sinner.
We as individuals may have create lives and yes we can be called the “Master”, the “Shepherd” or even the “creator” of those who came from us, but one may argue that there are “free will” in those lives. Yes our subconscious mind may be able to produce a cell that is born in the Heart Universe, planet of the left atrium and country of Mitral (bicuspid) valve. How the daily life of that cell is really the cells “free will”. It can choose to live its destiny, choose to do nothing for the rest of its life or plan to rebel say turning cancerous.
Just because our technology could not detect a consciousness in a cell doesn’t mean that it does not exist. I vaguely recall that some scientist was able to determine that memory of an individual can be stored in other parts of the body and not just the brain. Maybe the collective consciousness of the cells in our body gave us our consciousness and not the other way around. May it is our collective consciousness that give rise to God and not the other way around?
If you believe in the evolution approach to life than you would believe that there were only single cell organisms many years ago. And these single cell organisms eventually evolved and became multi-cellular organisms. Two things to take note: 1) cells from those eras are long gone 2) are they really gone? Some people believe that there are reincarnations, that when you die you are born again. If all lives are created equally, then it wouldn’t be too difficult to say that each cell may undergo reincarnation in its own space time.
At this point there can be many possibilities:
- A cell might eventually reincarnation to a human being
- A human being might reincarnation to a cell
Think about it. A cell may not know that it is a cell and that it serves a bigger purpose which is to sustain the body which it came from. It might still go on living on a day to day basis competing with other cells for nourishment and might even be better than the rest of the other cells in its region. But it can’t escape the fact that it will eventually die.
Human beings may be just like cells, “God’s cells” where we are here with a purpose and yet we can choose how to live our lives. One other question remains:
If you do not even bother about the cells / lives in your body, what makes you think that God would bother about his?
After all, we are so small compare to God, aren’t we?
