Created to Be Gods

Preface
I have undertaken to write this with the conviction that this has come together as revelation knowledge from the Lord. I do believe that it explains with clarity God’s creation in such a way that it mutes evolution. The mandate that the Lord left for his people has never changed, yet the people have changed in that they are much more informed concerning the earth and humanity’s beginnings.
Nothing is allowed to ever contradict God’s holy Word, the Bible, but this book does contradict the traditional teaching of a world that is only six thousand years old. Doubtless the world is much older than that, as is easily understood by our much-touted fossil fuel supplies.
Our abundant coal, gas, and oil deposits began on the surface of the world as trees and foliage. When the surface was turned under, these were buried deep underneath the earth for thousands of years, at least, and probably more. Tithe green foliage turned to black coal, oil, and gas. I cannot imagine this happening in less than six thousand years.
Furthermore, I have attempted to present the overall plan that God has for humans in three phases. The first phase is the creation of humans and our world. The second phase is devoted to redeeming fallen humankind. And finally, the third phase speaks of humans being in heaven, fellowshipping with God face to face, not merely as superhumans but in fact as gods themselves.
This book does not require a bibliography as I have not quoted any other writers. The only quotes that I am using are from the King James Version of the Bible, 1611. 
Introduction
In the late ‘90s, two friends and I were traveling between the old biblical cities of Pergamos and Thyatira in modern-day Turkey. Off to the side of the road, we discovered a large gypsy encampment, a disorganized cluster of tents, cars, and campers. We pulled off and parked near the center of the camp and watched some of them weaving baskets to sell at market. These gypsies followed the harvest from area to area, depending on the season. In the off-season, they weaved baskets.
One of my friends had a Polaroid camera and began taking pictures of the children and giving them to the proud parents. This was our way of befriending the gypsies. He also gave them candy.
I took out my guitar and began to play and sing. After about fifteen or twenty minutes, I asked them if they would give me about ten minutes to speak to them. There were about seventy-five people present, and they responded that they would listen. Gypsies are despised in Turkey.
I preached the simple gospel to them about Jesus and how he came to save. I asked them to bow their heads and pray with me. As they bowed to pray, I asked them to raise their hands if they would like to accept Jesus as their personal Savior, and almost all of them did.
When we had finished praying the sinner’s prayer, behind me a man began to scream, “I know God!” To be frank, it unnerved me until I understood what he was saying. The Spirit of God had revealed to him that now, as he was screaming, he knew God. This gypsy man had received a revelation from God that brought him to a relationship with the heavenly Father. He did not just have to join a church or a new religion.
Little did I expect what the day would bring as we started out that morning. I can only marvel at God’s timing. We did not know that the gypsies were there, but God did. God had placed those people there at that moment of time.
I have served the Lord for almost forty-five years and have never heard the things that I have written in the following pages. I believe God runs his Earth in this way.
Let’s Begin
Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created. (Rev. 4:11, emphasis added)
And God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.” (Gen. 1:26)
So, God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. (Gen. 1:27)
The last phrase in Revelation 4:11, “for thy pleasure they are and were created,” is vital to our understanding of why we were created and what our role is in relation to God. Simply stated, we are the creation created for God’s pleasure. Whatever we accomplish will always pale in comparison to the creation’s obligation to satisfy the Creator’s intent and purpose. Whether we are apostles, prophets, teachers, or janitors, we are created for his pleasure. After all, it is his world and his universe; everything in it belongs to him because he created it. When we forget these truths, we launch out into territories that are unknown, and we lose sight of who we are, where we are going, and what we are trying to accomplish.
From Genesis 1:26–27, we learned that we are created in his image. This word image is associated with sight, with the visual, so we can reason that these passages refer to our body and its physical features. For that reason, we can conclude that humans look like God. I am aware of the argument that God has no body, for the Scripture says, “God is a spirit“ (John 4:24). While I am not disagreeing with Scripture, nor will I disagree, I don’t think this Scripture precludes God from having a body, because it is clearly stated throughout the Scriptures that God does have a body. It is not flesh and blood, but it has an image.
And the Father himself, which hath sent me, hath borne witness of me. Ye have neither heard his voice at any time, nor seen his shape. (John 5:37, emphasis added)
After this I looked, and, behold, a door was opened in heaven: and the first voice which I heard was as it were of a trumpet talking with me; which said, Come up hither, and I will shew thee things which must be hereafter. And immediately I was in the spirit: and, behold, a throne was set in heaven, and one sat on the throne. And he that sat was to look upon like a jasper and a sardine stone: and there was a rainbow round about the throne, in sight like unto an emerald. (Rev. 4:1–3, emphasis added)
In John 5:37, Jesus attests to the fact that God has both voice and shape. In the Revelation 4:1–3, John witnesses a shape on heaven’s throne and identifies it as the shape of a person. In verse three, he identifies the person on the throne as a male.
And I saw in the right hand of him that sat on the throne a book written within and on the backside, sealed with seven seals. (Rev. 5:1)
John clearly states here that the person on the throne has a right hand holding a book. I think we can safely conclude that he also had a left-hand and a complete body to go along with those limbs.
In this image we, humankind, are made. Your spouse, family, neighbors, and friends all look like God. This fact alone commands that I respect my fellow humans and treat them in an honorable way. I am my brother’s keeper.
God’s Philosophy
I fully subscribe to the traditional understanding that God is all-knowing and that he is omnipresent. But as I read about him and his nature, it is clear that he does not want his creation to serve him as slaves. He has given both the angels and humans choice and a free will. One-third of the angels in heaven chose to turn away from God and follow Satan.
And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads. And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven. (Rev. 12:3–4)