Fr. Mike Schmitz

He wasn't lonely.

He wasn't wondering what to do with his time.

In fact, those other creation stories, those other creation myths, what happens is there's the God or the gods and they create human beings to be slaves because the gods don't want to work.

Work is beneath them.

And so they create human beings either to be their slaves or to toy with, to simply be entertainment for them.

And what does the catechism assert?

Well, it asserts what the Bible asserts, which is God is infinitely perfect and blessed in himself.

He wasn't lonely.

He didn't need someone to do work for him.

In a plan of sheer goodness, he freely created man, human beings, to make him share in his own blessed life.

He didn't create us to be his entertainment.

He didn't create us to be his pawns.

He didn't create us to be his slaves.

In fact, no other place.

I mean, think about how amazing this is in Genesis chapter one, that it says that in God's image and likeness, he created us.

Male and female, he created us.

It is image and likeness.

Do you know that there is literally no other religion, no other worldview that believes that all human beings are created in God's image and likeness except for the Judeo-Christian worldview?

Like this is where that comes from.

This is where the idea of human beings having dignity, this is where its source is.