The chaos monster!

"...myths are tied to the 'status quo.' They have two chief concerns: explaining why things are as they are now, and maintaining things as they are now. These concerns spring directly out of the human terror of chaos. We are afraid of chaos because it always destroys our security, and security is perhaps the greatest of all human longings. if we are to gain the security we so desperately want, the first order of the day is some sense of intellectual order. If we can explain why things are the way they are, then we have that sense of intellectual order, and we also have the feeling that we know how to relate to the thing explained."—The Bible Among Other Myths, page 49

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In other words, we want to be God; Genesis 3 all over again...the more things change, the more they stay the same. We don't want to submit to God; we don't want somebody else to have any authority over us. We are in control; we are God—NOT! We are not in control; we are not God. And we never have been! We are in need of God's empowering presence in the form of the Holy Spirit (some call it grace...) for our very existence from breath to breath.
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