{"id":1132,"date":"2014-07-07T09:36:51","date_gmt":"2014-07-07T09:36:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harveycp.vitelline.net\/?p=1132"},"modified":"2018-06-07T16:49:03","modified_gmt":"2018-06-07T16:49:03","slug":"our-own-god-chapter-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harveycp.vitelline.net\/?p=1132","title":{"rendered":"Our Own God\u2014Chapter 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

The things that God loves most, the devil hates most. Nothing is more precious to God than the everlasting, distinct personality of His creatures; but Satan and tyrants look upon men as only a bulk of \u201cdumb driven cattle\u201d to serve their greed and ambition.
\nGod loves and prizes us in our individuality to such an extent that He has filled us with ten thousand private marks, in our souls, and bodies, and lives, and experiences, that never will be duplicated in any other creature.

It is a constant astonishment to my mind, how God can make hundreds of millions of human beings, and no two of them just exactly alike; no two faces, no two voices, no two pairs of eyes, nor pairs of ears, nor pairs of hands, nor pairs of feet, nor two sets of teeth in all the millions of men. In the structure of the bones, and sinews, and the wrinkles in the palm of the hand, and on the foot; in our individual walk, in the way we each learn our letters, or think, or talk, or write\u2500in every part of soul, and body, there are peculiarities written in each individual, that never have existed, and never will exist in any other individual.
\nGod could give an angel a description of our right thumb, or the particular way that we weep, or smile, and without any other mark to tell us by, that angel could fly from Heaven, and pick us out from hundreds of millions of other creatures with unerring precision. I stand bewildered at this inexhaustible fertility in the creative mind of our God. Any man who can look at these facts, and be an infidel, must be a consummate fool, who has sold his common sense to the devil.<\/p>\n

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The things that God loves most, the devil hates most. Nothing is more precious to God than the everlasting, distinct personality of His creatures; but Satan and tyrants look upon men as only a bulk of \u201cdumb driven cattle\u201d to serve their greed and ambition. God loves and prizes us in our individuality to such […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[361,362,363],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harveycp.vitelline.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1132"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/harveycp.vitelline.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/harveycp.vitelline.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harveycp.vitelline.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harveycp.vitelline.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1132"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/harveycp.vitelline.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1915,"href":"https:\/\/harveycp.vitelline.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1132\/revisions\/1915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harveycp.vitelline.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harveycp.vitelline.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harveycp.vitelline.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}