Discussing evidence from science, reason and history for God as the key to optimal human experience
Monday, May 01, 2017
Response To https://twitter.com/CrispySea/status/742494060624138244
Perhaps the comment exemplifies an important issue. To me, simple, reversed parties in the comment's wording seemed reasonably interpreted as reflecting perspective that some might consider extremist. However, the comment's writer seems to suggest having intended a less extreme message. How difficult might it be, therefore, (a) for God to have established a problem-free human experience, (b) for God to have given humans sufficient self-determination to choose to accept God as primary relationship and sovereign authority and thereby maintain problem-free experience, (c) for humans to have instead used self-determination to replace God with self, and to modify the problem-free human experience into what it seems reported to have historically been, and (d) for the Bible to be misinterpreted as suggesting that God was in favor of that? If someone had interpreted your post as calling for an extreme act, debate seems capable of continuing ad infinitum regarding that the wording clearly portrays any non-atheist as a societal problem. Subsequent proposed clarification seems to suggest other intended thought. Couldn't God's message really be to love God with all your heart, mind, soul, strength and might, and your neighbor as yourself? That credo seems suggested in both Old and New Testaments, and in the New Testament described as the summary of all proposed, divine inspiration.