Response To https://twitter.com/NewbornTight/status/740175413507330049

To me, the Bible seems to suggest that the human experience was designed to depend upon voluntary, individual acceptance of God as primary relationship and sovereign authority. To me, the quest to "know true things" seems to result from the apparent Genesis 3-like decision to attempt to navigate the human experience based upon (a) human perception of decision-critical circumstance factors rather than (b) God's direction, as primary relationship and sovereign authority, has directed.

To me, based upon my understanding of the human experience apparently established by God, other than God, the precise nature of that which occurs around the individual does not seem to be the individual's primary responsibility or concern. To me, the individual's primary concern seems optimally to be the thought and other behavior that God knows to be optimal for the individual. For example (which seems to be the purpose of Genesis 1-3's writing), whether or not the fruit of a tree seems "good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise" (Genesis 3:6), if "We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden: But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die", optimal focus seems to be on that which God has said, rather than on the true nature of the fruit of the tree, and optimal behavior governs self accordingly.

To me, two benefits of this approach seem to be that (a) the limitation and fallibility of human perception seem reasonably expected to be precluded by God's apparently Biblically-suggested omniscience and supreme benevolence from leading toward adverse outcomes, and (b) entrusting God with sovereign administration of the human experience seems to free the individual to pursue the human experience's apparent human goals, apparently proposed in Genesis 1:28-31, Deuteronomy 6:5, and Leviticus 19:18.

Perhaps, therefore, the entire Bible might have been written to demonstrate the simple point that, if the latter half of Genesis 3:6 read "... to make one wise, she said 'Maybe, but God, my primary relationship and sovereign authority, said no, and therefore, I do as well.', then thought to herself, 'Now, where's that man o' mine?', and all individuals made relatively similar decisions, the human experience seems more likely historical and contemporary paradise than adversity-riddled, apparently even assuming limited and fallible human perception.