Have you ever wondered why, despite advancements in scientific technology, there seems to be so much less advancement in man's humanity toward his fellowman? War, cruelty, injustice, moral blindness, seem as prevalent today as thousands of years ago. We can get to the moon, but we can't get along with our neighbor! Yet one of the most basic teachings of Christianity is to love one's neighbor as oneself. Why hasn't the brotherhood of man advanced as consistently as human technology?
Perhaps the answer to this perplexing question can be found in the way people see themselves and their relationship to God. In Psalms we read: "What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him? For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour. Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet." Ps. 8:4–6. What a glorious description of man. But how many of us can honestly say that we feel or see much of the glory, honor, and dominion related in this Scripture?
There is obviously a difference between the man envisioned in the psalm and the human being that is generally considered to be man. The difference is one of viewpoint, of how we see man. If man is seen as created by matter, he will see himself as a matter-perpetuated object and will, in effect, consider himself his own god, created and generated by himself.
