Monday, May 01, 2017

Response To https://twitter.com/Clergy211/status/738068345715466241

I seem to understand and respect the "progressive agenda" as being appropriate change. However, my self-directed review of the Bible and of sociology seems to lead me to the conclusion that the focus that might optimally lead to optimally human experience might be neither progressive nor conservative, neither "change" nor "no change", but rather, that which, to me, the Bible and science seem to suggest has always been the simple key to optimal human experience: voluntary, individual acceptance of God as primary relationship and sovereign authority. To me, with both the "change" and "no change" focuses, an issue seems unsettled: "what should change, and what should not change?", questions whose answers seem only known by God, apparently due to God's apparently-suggested omniscience and supreme benevolence, and human apparently-suggested limited and fallible perception. To me, focus on accepting God as primary relationship and sovereign authority seems to (a) put us precisely where the Bible seems to suggest we ought to have been since Genesis 3:6, (b) effect the resolve that God seems Biblically-suggested to have planned since then, and, (c) provide the mechanism to perceive the answers the questions apparently left unanswered by apparent progressive and conservative goals.

"Discussion" seems to be this project's middle name. Toward that end, I welcome your thoughts.