Wednesday, January 1, 2025
I’m interested to know where the perception of “helping God” came from. The bible is full of language of us being servants of The Lord. That begs the question – does God need our help? Like all philosophical questions there is a yes and no to ponder. At a larger level, humans are useless. The universe did just fine for 13 billion years without us, and we come along offering all of this “help.”
At some point humans learned to be helpful. But assistance requires those in need of it. They come together. The universe conspires with itself in the perception/deception of helpless and helpful. That’s why the Tao is full of conspiracy-theory language that shows us the simultaneity of both negative and positive.
Fundamentally, the universe unfolded by itself. It’s journeying by itself. It’s living out its life by itself. All of this perception of “serving God” is pretense. It makes more sense if the universe is simply serving itself. Even that’s hard to balance out in the mind because that must mean the universe is also deceiving itself in the name of so-called service. How does it split itself into servant/master? Who is the deceiver and who is being deceived? Who is the servant and who is being served, if not one-in-the-same?
Helping God means God is helpless. I once heard an evangelist say we should ask God, “How can I help?” I had to chuckle because she seemed to have forgotten that the universe did just fine without her for billions of years. When God created humans, he said “Help yourself! Lot’s of delicious fruit, here.” Eve helped herself. But she couldn’t help herself from the so-called forbidden. Thus, helplessness was begotten by the same substance of help itself. So, help yourself! Except for when you can’t.