{"id":172,"date":"2014-05-12T21:42:49","date_gmt":"2014-05-12T19:42:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lilav.com\/?p=172"},"modified":"2014-10-01T20:03:03","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T18:03:03","slug":"why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.lilav.com\/?p=172","title":{"rendered":"Why?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Today an incredibly beautiful and gifted God\u2019s creature made me ask myself the question: Why do we \"Why\"<\/a>
\nexist as two-gender and not as one-gender or three-gender creatures? If God could create one-gender
\nplants, He could obviously create a one-gender human being as well, couldn\u2019t He? And if He could create
\ntwo-gender creatures, He could create three-gender, four-gender, etc. human beings. Why did He
\ncreate us as men and women?<\/p>\n

Before continuing reading my speculations on this question, I suggest that you take some time and
\nspeculate on it yourself.<\/p>\n

So then, let us first imagine what would happen if we were just one-gender creatures \u2013men or women
\nor something in-between? Can you imagine that? There being only men or women or something in-
\nbetween all around us? I can \u2013 not only imagine it, but dare believe that if God had decided to make us
\nso, we would again be beautiful. Why? Because He does everything well. The world is full of evidence
\nfor that. We would probably again be able to reproduce and experience supreme delight in any kind
\nof intercourse \u2013 not only the sexual \u2013 and we would work and create things the way we do. He could
\nhave done the same for the three-gender and the four-gender creatures, had He created us such. But He
\nhadn\u2019t. Why?<\/p>\n

Because He is autonomous to decide what to do. He is the Creator and no one can change that, no
\nmatter in what way or to what degree we want to. If someone wants to change their gender, they
\ncan do that, and God will not stop them. But let them try to change the gender of all the people in
\nthe world or the genetic mechanism by which all the people in the world are created! What will the
\nresult be? I had a child with a damaged genetic mechanism and I know very well what the result is: an
\nextra chromosome in all the cells of the organism, and your whole life turns upside down \u2013 yours and
\neverybody\u2019s around you. May we never lose our vigilance to such an extent as to allow someone to take
\nsuch a big bite of the \u201cgenetic pie\u201d! Woe to us then!<\/p>\n

I hope you have understood my argument in favor of a Creator. Because if you haven\u2019t, I will ask you my
\nnext question: Can any of you create just one living thing? Not a machine or a robot, but a human being
\nthat exists independently having the mechanism to reproduce and the ability to think, feel, perceive,
\nassimilate, express or take free decisions, some of which you will not approve of, like, for example, being
\nwilling and capable of killing his own Creator, that is you?<\/p>\n

If there is a Creator and if He was killed by His creation, then why has He created us? I would again
\nsuggest that you stop reading and think about it.
\nIf I created a being with the capability and volition to do whatever they wanted to (because for most
\nof us \u201cfreedom\u201d means exactly this), I would at least guarantee my own existence, wouldn\u2019t I? Hence,
\nthere is either no Creator, or this Creator is very weak and dull. The inference seems to gain greater
\nvalidity when we call to mind the enormous number of people killing each other. What, if not weak, dull
\nand evil, is the Creator who has allowed this killing to happen or has at least not taken the necessary
\nprecautions to prevent it? Why has He not prevented it or why has He allowed it at all? I mean people\u2019s
\nkilling each other and Him, too? I think the answer to this question is very simple although thousands of
\npages have been written on it: because he couldn\u2019t avoid it. Let us not be duller and stupider than we
\nare: the Creator of such complex, intelligent, beautiful, capable, talented, powerful and having such an
\nenormous potential creatures as we do, cannot be weak, dull and only evil, among all. The abundance
\nof goodness everywhere around proves that. And the second answer that comes to my mind is that this
\nCreator values freedom so highly and is so unwilling to violate it that He has allowed the occurrence of
\nsomething that none of us would allow voluntarily and without resistance \u2013 His own killing.<\/p>\n

If He was capable of doing this, anything else that does not correspond to His expectations is
\ninconsiderably small\u2026 And one of these inconsiderably small things is for us to part with the image in
\nwhich we were created. Because this is the answer to the question why human beings are two-gender,
\nnot one-gender or three-gender beings: \u201cSo God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God
\nhe created them; male and female he created them\u201d (Genesis 1:27). By \u201cparting with the image in which
\nwe were created\u201d, I understand any thought or action that would lead to experiencing the combination
\nof good and evil and devaluating the human beings reducing them into an image of apes, for example.
\nBy \u201cinconsiderably small\u201d I understand the value of the work of the Creator\u2019s allowing His killing by His
\nown creations as compared to the value of the work of the creations\u2019 parting with the image in which
\nthey were created.<\/p>\n

Let us now stand before the mirror and ask ourselves: \u201cWhat do we see?\u201d I suppose all of us would say,
\n\u201cA human being.\u201d Shall we give the same answer though if we stand before a gigantic mirror showing
\nthe image of the Creator or a small mirror showing our past deeds? My answer for me would be: \u201cBoth
\na human being and an ape\u201d. Yours is for you to know. Maybe for you it has no importance at all, but
\nfor me it has; because according to the Holy Scripture I will never part with this image: I will carry it
\nforever. And I don\u2019t want to be carrying an image bearing the features of both a human being and an
\nape. Human features are for humans, apes\u2019 features are for apes.<\/p>\n

Lil
\n12\/05\/2014<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today an incredibly beautiful and gifted God\u2019s creature made me ask myself the question: Why do we exist as two-gender and not as one-gender or three-gender creatures? If God could create one-gender plants, He could obviously create a one-gender human being as well, couldn\u2019t He? And if He could create two-gender creatures, He could create […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-postink"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lilav.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lilav.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lilav.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lilav.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lilav.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=172"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.lilav.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":173,"href":"http:\/\/www.lilav.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions\/173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lilav.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lilav.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lilav.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}