You know, I've found something interesting whilst reading this little "Acts 2 Church and Implementation Guide". Author Alton Garrison, former Assemblies of God General Superintendent says about fellowship "It has been said that the five greatest needs of the human personality are significance, support, stability, stimulation and self-expression."
In an instant, I began to think about what I have heard said by "rational and reasonable" psych-experts, who have said that it is because of these needs that people turn to religion; simply because religion fits. They say that nearly everyone (barring those with mental dis-capacities and disorders) has a need to belong, have a reason for being, be cared about, live in a stable environment, be active and be able to express themselves. Religion fits that they say. Its said in a way that makes religion out to look like any old remedy for a headache and that religion is just that - a remedy, invented by us humans in order to feel self-worth.
You know what I say to that? Duh.
Of course humans tend towards worship of a higher being in order to fulfill those five requisites. But where I diverge from "logic and reason" is on the reasons why. While humans may have invented religion (a set of rituals, practices and beliefs aid in the worship of a deity), they certainly didn't invent God. People love to say how people invented God and that we've built a world around that thought. That's a point of view called arthroscopic and it is nothing more than a point of view. It is also a self-centered point of view.
Theocentric thought (the original way of thinking and another point of view) would tell a different story. It would say that we were designed to be in communion with God and therefore we would innately have a need for those five needs. Why does God and religion work for people's needs? Because it was designed that way! We were designed to be fulfilled by God, who has a plan for us, direction for us, desires communion with us, provides for us and allows for expression of our praise to Him.
So yea, God does fit that void - but with good reason!
