Man is not special

If you examine the bibble, specifically chapters one and two of the first book, it is easy to see that man is not special. Man is not created until the end of the creation sequence. Is this because Gawd was saving the best for last? No. Man was created for a purely selfish reason. Man was not created because the animals were lonely, but because the animals needed someone to care for them and the land needed someone to care for and use it.

So here were are, Gawd and Man, tooling around the new world. Will Man shoot the breeze with Gawd, maybe discuss the myriad topics on the tip of the tongue of an omniscient entity? Nope. Man is here to till the land. He is here to work, to toil in the fields. Their relationship is that of a master and his slave. Gawd explicitly tells Man to avoid the Tree of Knowledge. You don't need that to pull a plow. If Man knew something, he might ask questions or want to discuss things. No, no, no. Keep on working in the fields, day in and day out. Make Massa happy.

But Man must be special somehow. Gawd did breath life into a statue made of dirt. Not quite. The Latin Vulgate bibble states: formavit igitur Dominus Deus hominem de limo terrae. De Limo terrae is the bit that we want to see. The problem is that "dust" is not a definition of limo. Limo translates as "slime, mud, or mire," something definitely wet and unpleasant, not dust and not clay. Perhaps the original authors were hints at some sort of ooze, maybe even a primordial soup?

There you have it. Man comes from slime and specifically created to toil his life away, as stupid as the plants and animals in his charge. Doesn't sound like a special plan to me, but one day, Massa will call you in from the fields to the big house and your life will be complete.