The other day, Gene Veith had a great post describing some of the new discoveries Archaeologists have found surrounding early man. He highlighted two discoveries in particular:
1. It appears our ancient ancestors (whoever, whenever they may be) were playing music much earlier than previously thought. Scientists discovered a flute said to be 35,000 years old! From the very beginning, man has had the glory of the image of God stamped on them (and this particularly shows itself in our desire for beauty, such as music)
2. However, there is also another discovery from the same time that suggests the way Neanderthals became extinct was through being eaten by more advanced Homo Sapiens! So here's the picture of man from our earliest times:
Man makes beautiful instrument; man plays beautiful instrument; man becomes hungry; man uses instrument to beat to death lesser man; man eats lesser man; man after meal goes back to making beautiful music.
All this has had me thinking about how tragic and wonderful God's story all is. Man is created in the image of God to relate to God and love God forever; man rebels against their loving Creator, choosing their own glory over His; Creator in love comes down to restore His lost Creation; Creator is killed by His lost creation for His lost creation's salvation; Creator is risen and rules over all; yet He does not completely establish His rule yet. He will, but not yet. He still has a fallen people, (you and I) to reach out and save.
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