Theology Friday… Psalm 8

Today we live in world where many humans have lost their identity and purpose. Many are seeking to understand who they are and what they are here for. It is not surprising that we can turn to Psalm 8 in our struggles of identity and purpose. Philosophical anthropologists point out that, historically, human beings have sought their identity by comparing themselves to animals, to others, and to God. Only the second is absent from theis psalm. Here the human is not known by comparison to other races, nations, cultures. The omission is not accidental, and its absence must be emphasized. The notion of universal humankind has been around for a long time, but the drift of history does not favor it. Tribalism, nationalism, racism, (all the ways of being human in distinction from others and in hostility to others), govern the self-consciousness of the majority of the species. Yet in every crisis of culture and at every transition in history, we have to learn again how to say “human being”. The biblical view of our relationship with God is critical to our understanding of this and the identity of us being human.

Welcome to the New Down 2 Earth

Welcome to the new Down 2 Earth