Creating the World: God, The Devil, and Psychology

Every once in a while I wonder, why do we as humans have the psychological need to be evil?

Why does every batman need a joker?

Why does every North need a South?

The answer is simple: In Genesis 3 man and women fell to the Serpent. God had created paradise for his children to dwell in. All was taken care of: the only rule, never eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Man choose to worship himself over God.

Man kind has always been looking for something searching to create his own world like his/her father God had created theirs.  

In Genesis 4, Cain's decedent Tubal-Cain learned to forge with Iron and Bronze, Jubal created the Harp and Flute, and after the flood, Man created the tower of babel to reach the heavens.

As Human Beings we want to create. God's first command was "Be fruitful and multiply, fill the earth and subdue it."

 I don't think this just applied to child-birth. I believe God meant for us to create as he had created, we were to love and take care of the earth, as God had loved and taken care of it. We were to multiply our thoughts, our actions, our inventions, are creative nature (and of course our people) and fill the earth all in honor and perfect harmony of our heavenly father.

Something happened though....

 Satan, a fallen angel the one who wants to be worshiped, deceived human beings. 

RULE #1 about Satan:
Satan cannot create, he can only corrupt and distract from God's holiness and creation.

Satan used man because man was formed in the image of God. Unlike angels, man has free will; the ability to create.
 If Satan could trick man into creating any idol that takes away from God's holiness, he had won because man the pivotal of God's creation, the closest representation of God in the universe, had abandoned him.

 

 Our Psychological need to create, isn't innately evil. What we name as Sin, often is just a distortion of characteristics of God.
 

Love is turned to Lust

Wellness is turned to Selfishness

Exploration, Questioning, and Curiosity  is turned to Doubt.

Peace and Security is turned to Worry and Chaos

and so on...

When the "Me" idol is the center of our hearts, Satan wins. We've glorified the Serpent. Because Satan cannot defeat God, Satan loves to see the closest thing to God fail and fall.  

When we choose to worship ourselves, the garden which God had planted and taken care of now becomes our responsibility. During my freshman semester of college, I had a professor who was all about nature and the environment. He inspired me to grow a garden. After he had brought in two Walmart bags full of fresh home grown tomatoes, I thought "Wow! if I did that I wouldn't need to go to the grocery store at all."

I began working that summer on my own garden. Day one was hard preparing the ground, I had to dig out several boulders and bring over the right kind of fertilizer for my garden. I tried to make my ground even but just couldn't figure it out. I planted my seeds and waited for the garden to grow. In the mean time I had gotten two summer jobs a night shift (11pm-7am) at a hotel and my day job (8am-3pm) doing maintenance work on the mountain bike trails in the northern part of the state.

 

Several weeks past, and I decided to let the night shift go. 

When I finally had enough time to take care of my garden, by mid July my garden had been burnt by the sun, eaten by deer, and over grown with weeds; destroyed by my own neglect.   

 Our desire to work is innately good. It's part of God's first command but when we choose to create our own world completely detached from God's goodness, we find enormous amounts of stress and worry. . 

Jesus summarizes what we should do in Mathew 7. "A wise man built his house upon the rock"