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Who Made Who
Contributed by Jeff Hatos on Jun 6, 2019 (message contributor)
Summary: What does the Bible tell us about God and His Creation and how have people tried to change that view?
Who Made Who
Even every one that is called by My name: for I have created him for My glory, I have formed him; yea, I have made him.
“Who made who, who made you? Who made who, ain't nobody told you? Who made who, who made you? If you made them and they made you who picked up the bill, and who made who? Yeah
who made who, who turned the screw?” When Stephen King wrote and directed the movie “Maximum Overdrive” from one of his short stories named “Trucks”, he asked the rock band AC/DC to record the soundtrack, the song “Who Made Who’ was one of the songs written for the movie and I read the lyrics from the refrain. You might be thinking “How is this guy going to work AC/DC and Stephen King into a sermon?” Actually I’m kinda wondering that myself. Let’s see if I can do it.
The short story and the movie are about machines that have gained a certain amount of intelligence and have revolted against mankind. The machines still perform the tasks they were built for but they now perform these tasks without humans at the controls. The lyrics to the song brought up a couple of machines and the role they play in human life but asked the question. “who made who?” Did people make the machines to use or did the machines make the people to serve them? Which one is in control?
In our reading today, God told Isaiah that He made all people for His glory, that He formed and created everyone. In Revelations 4:11 we are told, “Worthy are You, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, for You created all things, and by Your will they exist and were created”, and in Ephesians 2:10; “For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them”. All three verses clearly state that God has created all people; that He formed us. Our creation was done for God’s glory, for God’s purpose and to do certain tasks, certain good works, which we are expected to do for the glory and honor or God. It is God’s will, God’s desire that we have been made and because of this we should do what is right and just and honor God and give Him the glory, or the credit, for that we have, all that we know, and all that we can do.
It is so simple, God is the Creator, we are the created, but this truth is not often recognized or even acknowledged by those God created. Throughout history we have found that the ancient cultures have made up various deities to help explain the different aspects of nature and human personality. Without exception, these religions, these mythos, are polytheistic or have many different gods. Baal, Chemosh, Dagon, the Golden Calf, Tammuz, Moloch, and Asherah are but a few that are mentioned in the Bible, the history records name many hundreds more. But in all of them, they have human frailties and human tendencies regardless of their power and knowledge. In all of them, man made the gods in their image and for man’s purpose.
As Christianity began spreading and the concept of a monotheistic, or single deity concept, began to become accepted, people began creating a single god for them to worship. One of the big knocks against Judaism and Christianity in ancient times was the fact that these are a single God in the religion. For some reason, the thought of a monotheistic religion was seen as suspicious in the ancient world. We know most of the single deities out there; Jehovah of the Jehovah’s Witnesses, the god of the Mormons, and Allah of Islam are among them. In all of these, the god is supreme without the human faults we found in the ancients religion. But also in all of these, their god satisfies the group’s particular human sensibilities. The gods, created by people, act in accordance to human desires and human wants and needs.
Even the Jews, God’s chosen people, the ones that looked so forward to the coming Savior have denied the Savior had come and in some instances even deny there ever would be a Savior. The Jews believe that the Christian translations of the old Hebrew texts are not correct and what Christians believe is not what God had originally said. One of the statements the Jews rely on is that the Savior is to bring peace, and since there are still wars, the Savior cannot yet have come. They also believe God is one and not the Trinity of Christian belief. The Jews are teaching a concept of God that denies what He has said about Himself.
