Individuation by God

The unique characteristics, gifts, talents, "missions", "ministries", and cerebral "chips" of each of God's people -- are specifically designed, planned, and provided.... by God.... for God's own purposes.


A "tablet" from the on-going INTERNET BOOK, "The Doctor's Terrific Tablets"
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by John N. Todd III, M. D. (link)

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This "tablet" interrelates closely with these other "tablets":
What do you POSSESS that was not GIVEN to you (link)
AND: DESIGNED by God.... before the beginning of time (link)
AND: CHOSEN by God (link)
AND: God's PEOPLE; Who are they; How do you get to be a "Godsperson" (link)
AND: The KINGDOM of God (link)

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CONSIDER this (the obvious).... No two ANIMALS (including "HUMAN" animals) are identical. There are wide individual variations and differences.... of "DNA"; and physical appearance; and physiological and psychological features; and characteristics of personality.

Consider these additional "differences", also.... the unique genetic encoding of each individual; and the specific enzyme "polymorphism" in each of us; and the variations in our "cerebral chips"; and the "IQ" (intellectual) disparity among us.... and remember also the differences in specific innate talents (athletics, music, mathematics, etc.).... in each of us.

Did these INDIVIDUAL variations "just happen", randomly.... generated by "Big-Bang" and "Mother-Nature".... or was God Himself actively and directly "involved" in the precise design and formation of each of His people?


Here are the major questions, which all of us "spiritual" humans need to ponder, and answer:

Does Almighty God, Himself, specifically and precisely design and "create" those individual human-beings whom He has included among His people (link), in His Kingdom? (See link The Kingdom of God.)

OR.... is God "too busy" to bother Himself with such "trivia".... and does God therefore wait for the "forces-of-nature" to design and generate "individual" human-animals.... and does God, then, at some later God-ly time, evaluate and "judge" Mother-Nature's "creations".... and does God then "pick" this-one-and-that-one, for "inclusion" and "salvation" and "eternal life" and "Heaven" -- based on an individual's "performance" in following the dictates of a certain man-made "religion"?

Similarly, does God Himself "exclude" other individuals, based upon various humanoid criteria? Are you and I "acepted" or "rejected", by God, dependent upon our satisfactory "compliance" with a "batch" of churchy rites and rules and regulations? Does God evaluate us, based-on His determination of our "obedience" to the fine-print (link) of a specific "doctrine"?

I say that God personally designs and forms ("individuates") each of His "chosen" human creations. I perceive, also, that God personally guides the spiritual awakening and development and maturation of these specifically "individuated" people. (See link Chosen by God.) I consider this entire "spiritual" process to be lifelong.... and to be under the constant watchful eye of God Himself.... and I believe that God molds, guides, locates, bends, plants, prunes, disciplines, and loves, and "saves" those whom He has "individuated" -- for God's own reasons.... unrelated to the begging and pleading of churchy human-beings -- and in spite of the admonitions and hell-threats and warnings of "organized" institutional churches, religions, and rigidly doctrinal sects.

Note the following Biblical references which relate to the above thoughts. Read these out loud.... and hear the words of God:
Romans 9: 20 (NRSV) But who indeed are you, a human being, to argue with God? Will what is molded say to the one who molds it, "Why have you made me like this?" 21 Has the potter no right over the clay, to make out of the same lump one object for special use, and another for ordinary use? 22 What if God, desiring to show His wrath, and to make known His power, has endured with much patience the objects of wrath, that are made for DESTRUCTION; 23 and what if He has done so in order to make known the riches of His glory for the objects of mercy, which He has PREPARED, beforehand, for GLORY....

Isaiah 64: 8 (NRSV) Yet, O LORD, you are our Father; we are the clay, and you are our potter; we are all the work of your hand.

1 Corinthians 12: 5 (NRSV) .... there are varieties of services, but the same Lord; 6 and there are varieties of activities; but it is the same God who activates ALL of them, in everyone. 7 To EACH is given the manifestation of the Spirit, for the common good.... 11 All these are activated by one and the same Spirit, who allots to EACH ONE, INDIVIDUALLY.... just as the Spirit chooses.... 18 But as it is, God arranged the members in the body -- EACH ONE of them, as HE chose.

Acts 17: 24 (NRSV) The God who made the world and everything in it.... He who is Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in shrines made by human hands, 25 nor is He served by human hands, as though He needed anything, since He Himself gives to ALL mortals life, and breath, and all things. 26 From one ancestor He made all nations to inhabit the whole earth; and He allotted the times of their existence, and the boundaries of the places where they would live.... 27 so that they would search for God, and perhaps grope for Him, and find Him.... though indeed He is not far from EACH ONE of us.

Psalm 139: 13 (NRSV) For it was you who formed my inward parts. You knit me together in my mother's womb.... 15 My frame was not hidden from you, when I was BEING MADE in secret -- intricately woven in the depths of the earth. 16 Your eyes beheld my unformed substance. In your book were written ALL the days that were formed for me -- when none of them as yet existed.

Jeremiah 1: 4 (NRSV) Now the word of the LORD came to me saying, 5 "Before I FORMED YOU in the womb, I knew you; and before you were born, I consecrated you. I appointed you a prophet to the nations." 6 Then I said, "Ah, Lord GOD! Truly I do not know how to speak, for I am only a boy." 7 But the LORD said to me, "Do not say, 'I am only a boy'; for you shall go to all to whom I send you, and you shall speak whatever I command you, 8 Do not be afraid of them, for I am with you to deliver you, says the LORD." 9 Then the LORD put out his hand and touched my mouth; and the LORD said to me, "Now I have put my words in your mouth."

Matthew 12: 33 (NIV) (Jesus speaking) "Make a tree good, and its fruit will be good; or make a tree bad.... and its fruit will be bad -- for a tree is recognized by its fruit.... 35 The good man brings good things out of the good STORED up in him, and the evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in him."

Matthew 7: 18 (NIV) (Jesus speaking) Every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. 19 A good tree CANNOT bear bad fruit -- and a bad tree CANNOT bear good fruit.

Psalm 100: 3 (KJV) Know ye that the LORD he is God: it is He that hath made us, and not we ourselves. We are His people, and the sheep of His pasture.

Matthew 10: 29 (NRSV) Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground.... apart from your Father. 30 And even the hairs of your head are all counted. 31 So do not be afraid; you are of more value than many sparrows.

1 Corinthians 7: 17 (RSV) Let everyone lead the life which the LORD has ASSIGNED to him -- and in which God has called him.

Psalm 119: 73 (NEB) Thy hands moulded me, and made me what I am. Show me how I may learn thy commandments.

Proverbs 20: 24 (NRSV) ALL our steps are ordered by the LORD. How then can we understand our own ways?

Ecclesiastes 3: 1 (NRSV) For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven: 2 a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck-up what is planted; 3 a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; 4 a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance.


Dictionary definitions of "individuate", and "individuation":

"Individuate" -- A. (Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary) -- 1 "To give individuality to; 2 to form into a distinct entity".

B. (Merriam-Webster's "Webster's Third New International Dictionary") -- 1 "To distinguish from others of the same species."

C. (Random House Dictionary) 1 "To form into an individual, or distinct entity; 2 to give a distinct character to."

"Individuation" -- (Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary) -- 1 "The act or process of individuating; 2 the development of the individual from the universal; the determination of the individual, in the general".


The author's application of the term "individuation", for the purposes of this "tablet", is as follows:

"God's 'individualizing' the design and creation of each one of His people, so that each human-being is different from all others..... and so that each individual 'Godsperson' fulfills the existence and the purpose that God has ordained ("assigned") for that particular individual."

OR..... "God's planned process of generating individual, distinct human-beings -- for Himself.... rather than allowing Mother Nature, Big-Bang, and Father-Time to construct generic 'creatures', and 'batches' of human-animals -- for later evaluation and 'judgment' -- by God.")

It is my thesis, and my understanding, that in the process of God's "individuating", God-our-Creator designs and "produces" and develops each one of His people, individually -- according to God's own plan and INTENTION for each individual "Godsperson". (It is inconceivable, to me, that Almighty-God -- the Supreme Mind of Heaven and Earth and Universe -- is not fully involved in the design and "manufacturing" of each one of His children, His servants, His saints...... His people.) (See link: God's People)


(At this point in this "tablet", I want to "copy and paste" a short section from another chapter in this internet book. This section (from "God's People" -- linked in the above-paragraph) expresses my opinion about whether or not God "assigns" the design and creation of His people to the "whim" of chance, and luck and chaos..... and to the vagaries of "Mother-Nature" -- and to the flippancy of Father Big-Bang.

Here is the copied section (three paragraphs):
Can you imagine that He who designed each of us humans, individually; He who created every one of us, for this world; He who assigned the genetic make-up of each of us to be totally different from every other human creation; He who specified our skin-color, and our "ethnic origin", and our family background; He who guided the young footsteps and the development and the maturing of each "Godsperson".... can you imagine that this omniscient, omnipotent and everlasting Creator of the Universe and Heaven, does not know and remember and fully understand the qualities and attributes of those individuals whom He has designed.... and for what purpose each of His people was generated?

(Do you believe that you and I were "released", helter-skelter, into this life, by an uncaring and insouciant "Supreme-Being" -- and that we.... we who claim to be God's people -- have been left to "fend" for ourselves, unassisted and unguided and unloved, in our journey through this life, in this world? I say "NO"! What do you say?)

Does anyone believe that the Sovereign God-of-the-Universe -- without any plan or purpose for that which He is creating -- casually dumps into a cauldron, a batch of skin and bones, arteries and veins, hearts and lungs -- along with a sprinkle of a variegated DNA..... and that our Creator-God then walks away, and frivolously abandons the "forming" of the resultant human-beings to the "discretion" and whim of Mother-Nature, and Father-Big-Bang? Do you believe that God-Almighty leaves the design and development of "God's people", in the hands of "the-forces-of-nature" -- and that God then says to Himself, "Let's see what 'luck' and 'chance' and 'chaos' can come up with..... then I'll decide ("judge"), later, which humans I'll keep and 'save' and admit to My Kingdom.... and which other humans I'll condemn and discard -- and destroy"?

My pertinent question, of course, is this. Does God-the Creator expect each one of His people to be exactly like every other human-being? Are we humans "produced" to be clones of each other.... all of us having immediate and total "spiritual" understanding; and all of us performing the same worldly tasks; and all of us "belonging" to the same "church"..... and all of us reciting an identical creed.... and each of us mimicking a preacher, or a monk, or a rabbi, or an imam, or a rigid fundamentalist, or a "religious" scholar?

Are you and I to be condemned, by other humans, and by certain churches -- and by God.... if we do not fall-into-line -- and "obey" the laws, rules and regulations that a particular "religion" has declared to be the "one-and-only-way" to God's "salvation"?

Should we individuals of varying "religious" understanding abandon the set-of-beliefs that we have conscientiously perceived.... the "faith" we have been led to believe? Must we ignore our own thoughts, and our own seeking.... and adopt someone else's "conclusions" -- so that we can "satisfy" this-or-that "church"? OR.... does God Himself guard and protect His people from the misguided perceptions of the "great-religions" of the world.... AND does God then construct and "cultivate" His own "spiritual" truths within each of His people..... according to God's own timetable for each "individual"? (See link A Secret God.)

Should you and I be ostracized or shamed (or murdered) by certain humans, simply because we do not recognize and embrace the creed that a specific dogmatic group claims to be "THE truth"?

Should we, in our ignorance (or in our fear and superstition) "join" a certain doctrinal church.... and should we (in spite of our own questions and doubts) "confess" our allegiance to that church -- by reciting a "profession-of-belief" which we do not genuinely understand and accept?


Note the following Biblical references. Some of these are repeated from above. Read these scriptures out loud, so that you will hear yourself repeating God's thoughts:

Jeremiah 10: 23 (NRSV) I know, O LORD, that the way of human beings is not in their control.... that mortals as they walk cannot direct their steps.

1 Corinthians 12: 5 (NRSV) ..... there are varieties of services, but the same Lord; 6 and there are varieties of activities; but it is the same God who activates all of them in everyone. 7 To EACH is given the manifestation of the Spirit, for the common good......11 All these are activated by one and the same Spirit, who allots to EACH ONE, INDIVIDUALLY..... just as the Spirit chooses...... 18 But as it is, God arranged the members in the body -- EACH ONE of them, as HE chose.

1 Corinthians 7: 7 (RSV) EACH has his own special gift from God; one has this gift, another has that gift.

1 Corinthians 7: 17 (RSV) Let everyone lead the life which the Lord has ASSIGNED to him, and in which God has called him.

Isaiah 29: 16 (NRSV) You turn things upside down! Shall the potter be regarded as the clay? Shall the thing made say of its Maker, "He did not make me"; or the thing formed say of the One who formed it, "He has no understanding"?

Romans 8: 29 (NRSV) For those whom He FOREKNEW, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son -- in order that He (Jesus) might be the firstborn within a large family. 30 And those whom He predestined, He also called; and those whom He called, He also justified; and those whom He justified, He also glorified. 31 What then are we to say about these things? If God is for us, who is against us?

ROMANS 12: 3 For by the grace given to me, I say to everyone among you not to think of yourself more highly than you ought to think, but to think with sober judgment -- each according to the measure of faith that God has ASSIGNED. 4 For as in one body, we have many members; and not all the members have the same function; 5 so we, who are many, are one body in Christ.... and, INDIVIDUALLY, we are members one of another.

Isaiah 43: 5 (NIV) Do not be afraid, for I (God) am with you; I will bring your children from the east, and gather you from the west. 6 I will say to the north, `Give them up!' and to the south, `Do not hold them back.' Bring my sons from afar, and my daughters from the ends of the earth -- 7 everyone who is called by my name -- whom I CREATED FOR MY GLORY -- whom I FORMED and MADE."

1 Corinthians 12: 27 (NRSV) Now you are the body of Christ, and INDIVIDUALLY members of it.

John 3: 27 (NEB) (John, the Baptist speaking): "A man can have only what God gives him."

Same (KJV) John answered and said, "A man can receive nothing -- except it be given him from heaven.

Peter 4: 10 (NRSV) EACH ONE should use whatever gift he has received to serve others, faithfully administering God's grace in its various forms.
So, what do you say?

Does God "individuate" each one of His accepted human creations? Or, does God-the-Creator walk-away from the process, and leave the development and maturation of God's people (link) to the "forces-of-nature"? And, of even greater importance.... does the Almighty-God-of Heaven-and-Earth-and-Universe frivolously abandon the spiritual development of His chosen (link) creations -- to the multiplicity of churchy concoctions and arguments and claims and disputes and fights and wars and hates.... of countless doctrinally-frozen, sometimes-supercilious, frequently hostile "religious" organizations?

OR.... does God Himself carefully and lovingly "manage" the timing and the method of the "spiritual" awakening and growth of each of His "children"?

(This following paragraph, copied from above, is repeated here.)

I say that God personally designs and forms ("individuates") each of His "accepted" human creations. I perceive, also, that God personally guides the spiritual awakening and development and maturation of His "individuated" ("chosen") people. I consider this entire process to be lifelong.... and to be under the constant watchful eye of God Himself.... and I believe that God molds, guides, locates, bends, plants, prunes, disciplines, loves, and "saves" those whom He has "individuated" -- for His own reasons.... unrelated to the begging and pleading of churchy human-beings -- and in spite of the admonitions and hell-threats and warnings of "organized" institutional churches, religions, and rigidly doctrinal sects.

So.... I have expressed my understanding -- my feelings, my "faith". What do you say? Do you, yourself, personally, have a "position".... based on your own knowledge and decipherings and study and meditation and prayer.... and based on revelations to you, from God? OR.... do you simply say to yourself that you "believe" whatever the preacher says, or whatever your "church" has dictated to you?

Solidify your own spiritual tenets. Share your understanding with others.... and with me.

1/10/07