tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5335306071349615167.post7377455594372477762..comments2024-01-25T22:35:56.138-08:00Comments on Stan.Point: Disneology #12: Man’s Tool-making=God’s Image?Stan A. Lindsay, Ph.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/09225173346705344752noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5335306071349615167.post-67918864436142127952010-02-26T22:08:36.366-08:002010-02-26T22:08:36.366-08:00Thanks for the comment. I think the reason Burke ...Thanks for the comment. I think the reason Burke used the word "instruments" instead of "tools" is that instruments are not limited to tools. God made a lot of great gadgets: solar systems that work like clockwork, atomic structures that could be combined with similar atoms to make various masses, plants that converted solar energy into carbon-based energy reserves, animals that converted plant products into protein, and humans that could rule and manage the entire system for him. But, the key part of this phrase in Burke's definition is that the instruments man makes "separate him from his natural condition," thus making man above nature (like God), supernatural. In that sense, man is the image of God. That was the direction I was taking this. I'll write more on the connection between "making" and "creating" in my next commentary.Stan A. Lindsay, Ph.D.https://www.blogger.com/profile/09225173346705344752noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5335306071349615167.post-31292616217109820552010-02-26T21:15:40.868-08:002010-02-26T21:15:40.868-08:00But what tools did God make? Are we referring to a...But what tools did God make? Are we referring to all of creation as one of his tools? Or more specifically the directions he gave to Moses concerning the ark and the tabernacle etc. Or to Noah and his ark? Tools he designed but that man actually built.Tristan Lindsayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03837203259456816249noreply@blogger.com