My impression of general human philosophy comes down to a simple exultation of God and rejection of humans as weak and cheap knock offs. Now humans are not gods, though I suspect we are more than the mere sum of our apparent parts. However, I think we badly underestimate our relationship with the divine. People often talk about glorifying their divine through their actions, be it compassion or sex or building monuments. As you can probably guess from how I am setting this up, my opinion on that will differ. The more and more you read of my writing, the less surprised you will be, I promise.
What is the Divine?
Before I go into the relationship with the divine (God or whatever you choose to call it) I should probably define what the divine is. At least in this context.
God is everything we can see, touch, theorize, and imagine. God is the multiverse, a term I prefer to just universe. God is the sun, is people, is frogs, is dark matter, and yes there is God in your worst enemy. (Contemplate that.) This being that is all these things and yet, can never be anything but God. All the power, with a strange and paradoxical limitation on its existence. God is relatively straight forward and only mysterious because we cannot comprehend how such a being might exist. I on't think God is meant to be mysterious, except to challenge us to try and understand.
What is Human?
Human and sapient (assuming there are other worlds with intelligent life) beings are extensions of God. They are a way for the divine to experience all the things it can imagine. God imagines love and loss. God imagines the feel of sand paper or the feel of a stocking. God imagines all the good and bad things a being with free will could choose and so grants us life so that we can choose. Even if that choice is evil.
Now I do not want to be morally relative here; God does not condone evil. But God does allow humans to choose it, if they wish. Laid before us is a multiverse of choices and if we choose to create, to be compassionate, to uplift others it provides us knowledge of the self, self worth, and a cohesion to our souls (or spirits) that embraces immortality. Should we choose to embrace a destructive path, we choose to be alone and we lose that cohesion.
To give glory to God is to live and exist and grow. It is to make choices and learn to make the right choices, choices that make the multiverse a better place. Make no mistake, free will is not a license to do evil; it is an opportunity to understand the multiverse and to make meaningful choices and to live with the consequences of those actions.
Stay Frosty
SMH