As we further consider what it means to be “Made in the image of God”,
we see that our soul was given a God-like power, in much reduced form, to program and create its mind and body. When it gets older, our soul has the power to program many of the surrounding support structures around it.
Similarly, God programmed the entirety of the Creation Program. He, within the vast Creation Program, is similar to the position of our own soul in the smaller, multi-trillion celled mind and body in which we spend our lives on earth. So, we are made in the image of God in that each of our souls rules a small piece of Creation.
When we extrapolate from this, we may realize that our body may harbor destructive organisms. We may, for instance, have a tumor. Our soul, which is in contact with both the autonomous nervous system that is aware of such systemic errors, will have the body use its programmed defenses to destroy that which threatens its life. If the usual defenses, white blood cells, fevers, etc., won’t work, our soul will alert the conscious mind to the problem, and further treatment will be sought. The best treatments destroy only the damaging agents, leaving the rest of the mind and body unharmed.
When a tumor grows within the body politic, some people think about removing it. This is not a generally authorized procedure. The correct response is to ask The Programmer for help, much as we ask a doctor for help in curing otherwise overwhelming diseases. He can reprogram the unhealthy tissue, as He did when curing lepers, even when they represent a large part of the body politic.
He will not do so unless we ask. Lots and lots and lots of heartfelt times.
