Dear Imago Dei,
What does God look like?
We often imagine God in human form – a face, a figure, a presence. But what if that’s not the point? What if, instead of looking for a physical resemblance, we looked at the essence of what it means to be made in the image of the divine?
If there is a Creator, a force, a source behind the universe, then surely one of the defining characteristics of that force is free will. The ability to choose, to create, to act outside of the laws of causality – to break free from the chain of cause and effect and simply decide.
In the book of Genesis, we are told that humanity is made in the image of God. But what if that image isn’t about physical resemblance? What if the true image is our capacity to create something out of nothing? To take an idea – an abstract thought – and bring it into being. In other words, to act as a creator. To choose a path that doesn’t have to be predetermined by the past, but that springs forth from the moment itself.
Just like the act of saying “let there be…” and naming something, free will is the power to bring new things into the world – things that didn’t exist before. That, my friend, is a superpower.
And if free will exists, then it’s the closest thing to Godliness we have. Not in a literal sense, of course, but in the sense that we have the ability to make decisions that exist outside the boundaries of time and cause.
So, dear reader, we turn to you:
Have you ever had one of those moments where you made a decision out of nowhere?
A decision that wasn’t based on anything from the past or future, but simply was?
When was the last time you created something from nothing, just by choosing it to be so?
Out of nowhere ourselves,
~ The Radical Left