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Show "It Has Often Been Flippantly Stated That Man Created God" ' By RABBI ABBA HILLEL SILVER, Cleveland, Ohio. It has often been flippantly stated that man created God. There is, to my mind, a profound meaning beneath the surface of this phrase Man is so fashioned that he must create a God idea; without it, he cannot can-not exist. Man needs God in order that he may have a sense of at-home-ness, of belonging in the universe. Man would feel utterly lost, lonely and helpless but for the consciousness that there is in this vast scheme a unifying purpose and that he is in some way allied with it, an essentia! 'ink in the chain of universal purpose. Man needs God in order that he may have a sense of dignity in life. Man's body is weak; his senses are faulty; his life is brief; his existence and his experiences would be altogether humiliating were it not for the faith that, in spite of the in adequacy of his physical and intellectual equipment and in spite of tht brevity of his life, b is, somehow, co-working with the great Creative Spirit ip the fashioning of the world |