It is still true but we don’t always understand. To offer my psychic view, I will write it several different ways.

We are familiar with Jesus’ words, “Man was not created for the Sabbath. The Sabbath was created for Man” (Christ). Christ is also saying that Mankind is not the servant of the Sabbath. The Sabbath is meant to serve Mankind or Mankind’s spiritual growth. Christ is also implying that religious beliefs are meant to serve Mankind, Mankind’s spiritual growth, and God’s purpose for Mankind.

This principle exists all over the place – in many more contexts than understood on the surface of this one context. For example:

The Spirit was NOT created in order to inhabit or fulfill the physical (Physical Universe) form – for example, the human form. The physical (Physical Universe) form was created for Spirit to inhabit while in the physical realm – to serve the needs of the Spirit to learn and grow in awareness while in the Physical Universe.

The Spiritual Being was not created for the exploration and filling of the Physical Universe (plane). The Physical Universe was created to be a plane of existence to serve Spirit to grow and learn further by way of the exploration and expression of the Spiritual Being while in the physical Universe.

Spiritual evolution does not come from the evolution of the Physical Universe. The evolution of the Physical Universe is the manifestation of Spiritual evolution.

Spirit seeks to express itself, therefore the Physical Universe came into existence. As the Spirit grows and evolves by way of expressing itself, becoming ever more aware of itself, the Physical Universe grows and evolves.

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It is to be understood metaphorically in the same way as understanding the idea that children were not created for society to have something to inhabit and fill up schools and playgrounds. Schools and playgrounds were created to serve children to go to in order to learn and grow and explore existence as children.

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The Spirit that grows and learns, seeks ultimately, to know the “limitlessness” of “Itself”. It/We/He/She does this with the drive within and the imagination within. Imagination – because, what Spirit thinks up, Spirit can create and do. Even if it takes a Universe of space and dimensions, Infinite learning and an Eternity of time in order to follow through with imagining, creating and doing … ever reaching further to learn of Our Creator and our relationship with Our Creator and each other.

Spirit and Spirits came forth first. The physical realm was then created to serve the growth and learning of Spirit. The Children of God came first before the human form. This physical plane of existence then came afterwards in order to serve the Children of God to come to learn and grow in our awareness and understanding of our relationship to God and each other.

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Meanwhile, in the end – an end which may not exist – we’re also learning that all of space and dimensions exist in the HERE. And all of the Eternities of time exist as NOW. The paradox is in the trying to understand how this can be.

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Finally, here is a statement spoken decades ago of how our personal beliefs change and grow over time:

“We used to believe that illness was caused by demonic possession, …
but now we know that illness is caused by a toad or small dwarf living in the stomach.”
Theodoric of York, Medieval Barber, (Steve Martin on SNL). :-)