was earthly, it was only so because they were trying to realize the best in the earthly things so that they could be more close to the intentions of the divine powers. 4) Christian Thoughts; The Hymn to Charity, and The Good Samaritan The "Hymn to Charity" stresses on the importance of love. It tells us the personality of love and why it is so important that we all cherish this in our ways of living. Love is what brings out the most superior characteristics of human beings because it is what brings us closer to the design of the Divine One. The intentions of God is always good and honorable. If we bring ourselves to follow that intention, then it is inevitable for us to act out the spirit of love always. The "Good Samaritan" stresses on social responsibility and the need of love, justice and magnanimity for the social responsibility to be realized. When God made humans and the human society, it was not in his purpose to let it go corrupt as it did. His intention was the realization of the Good and the Truth. If the humans are to follow him, then we must make the best human characteristics come out and let it aid us in making society as it was willed to be. The good in us was put there by God to realize what He thought to be ideal and therefore, it is out duty to use that goodness in us in order to follow his ideal. These two examples taken from the Bible show us clearly what the early christians thought as the relationship between the human and the divine. 5) Conclusion As we have seen from the examples of Roman thinkers, Egyptian and Greek art, and early christian thoughts, the early western thoughts and arts, which became the founding steps of the western world, had its own particular way of seeing the connection between the Divine and the Human. For them, the qualities we most value in a human being was put in us by the divine powers so that humans could live in accordance with God's original design. Therefore, the...
