The People that tell you “God Is all You Need” are Liars!

Short and sweet. Right to the point. Here it is: God is not “all you need”. There isn’t much arguing I need to do on this one. No great revelations. (I could sum it all up in one paragraph, actually). If for some reason you feel different, though, check this out:

In one of the many ‘books’ found in the Bible (Genesis in particular, Chapter 2), God has created man. After creating Earth first, of course. “Man” in this case has a name, as it’s very specifically referring to the first person ever created: Adam.

After Adam was formed, and given life, and probably walking around checkin’ the place out, God said (and I paraphrase, as I wasn’t actually there) “Look, if you’re hungry you can eat the fruit from any of the trees here in ‘the garden’, except for that one tree over there… if you eat that crap, you’re gonna start falling apart, get all sorts of nasty rashes and such – and you don’t want that.”

Now, the Bible doesn’t exactly say so, but I’m pretty sure Adam said “Okay, no problem… What’s a rash?”

The Bible does say that Adam was placed in ‘the garden’ to “tend and care for it”. Great. Been here ten minutes and already got a job.

So here comes the good part…

God made Adam. Apparently He (God) talks to him (Adam) on a regular basis. It’s possible that He doesn’t. But He does talk to him. God just outright comes and talks to Adam. Adam didn’t get goose-bumps and a creepy feeling about the fruit on that one particular tree. Nope. God actually came and told him not to eat it.

Has God ever done anything like that in your life? [I'm not going to challenge that, although this is normally the place where I criticize your "walk"].

The good part? Wait… you didn’t catch it already? Well, I’m not covering it again. I’m moving along, and you’ll have to catch up. Re-read this thing if you need to, for crying-out-loud. Now, where was I?

So, God talks to Adam. Audible voice. Great. Now what? Well, apparently that wasn’t good enough for God.

See, all of the sudden the story in Genesis has an interesting development. God says to Himself (again, I paraphrase) “Self: It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a companion who will help him”.

So as usual, after God says He’s going to do something, He gets right on it. He starts making all sorts of animals and stuff. Foxes. Bears. Duck-billed-platypuses (Ornithorhynchus anatinus, for the geeks out there). Yeah, animals. Lots.

What? Oh, you thought this was where God made that first-chick, her honor, Eve? Nope. But don’t get your drawers twisted, that part’s coming.

So, as God made these animals He brought them to Adam “to see what he would name them”. Basically, He was letting Adam sort through all these interesting creatures, check ‘em out, name them all, and so forth. Whew… what a day that would have been.

But – in all of this, the Bible says that there wasn’t anything good enough to keep this Adam dude company. Heck, give me 8 dogs, three Oxen, two Moose and a rabbit, and I’m good to go. Aren’t you? But no, not Adam. Nothing would do. So, God noticed this. He noticed that nothing had a good enough personality fit. Nothing quite made the cut for “friend for life – never to leave your side“. No, not even Dogs (that Man’s Best Friend thing is a myth, by the way).

Yes, you’re right! This is where the chick comes in. To get right to it: God made a girl, Adam was “like whoa!” and that settled it. But I’m getting away from the point. Which was actually quite a few paragraphs upwards.

If you noticed, God said that it wasn’t good for the guy to be alone.

God Himself talks to this guy, and it’s not good? The guy gets to hang out with God! Not good enough for him? I would ask God what He was thinking, but as I’ve been alive after-the-fact, I’ve noticed that He was right, and I won’t question Him on this one.

To round it up (and this is the really, really important part):

If a human companion was so important to have, even though God was talking to this guy in an audible voice: How much more important is it for us to have good, close friends now? Now that the world and our minds are so noisy that I doubt any of us will hear the audible voice of God in our lifetimes?

Y’know, I’m going to write that again, in hopes that you won’t miss it:

If having a human companion was so important, even though God was talking to this guy in an audible voice: How much more important is it for us to have good, close friends, now that it’s so much harder to hear his voice?

See what I mean? It’s not that God isn’t the supplier of everything we get. It’s not that we don’t completely need to rely on God for everything. But, God Himself created a companion for the first man. There was something missing. Some void in Adam’s life that only another human could fill.

But remember: God placed that other human there.

Adam couldn’t just sit and wait for the other human to come into his life. Just as well, we can’t just rely on other people. Yes, we need other people. That was the whole point of this. But only God can place those people in our lives. Only God can create those people to begin with. Only He can know them before they are born, and – perhaps – cause their destinies to align with ours.

None-the-less, we need them. But we definitely need Him to give them to us.

The End.