Shifting Guidance From God

Perhaps representatively for society at large, the Bible seems to portray one society's key shifts in guidance from God to human perception, and the resulting social issues.

• Genesis 3: Eve chooses another's guidance over God's.
  Genesis 4-6 seems to portray the apparently resulting reduction in the lineage's quality of human experience, perhaps so much so that relief therefrom was desired, sensed via inspiration from God in Genesis 5:29, and effected in Genesis 6.
  • Substantiation: Adam and Eve
• Exodus 18: Moses, despite having experienced direct guidance from God, accepts another's guidance toward establishing community human administration when God seems to have intended Moses to teach the community about God as individuals' primary relationship and sovereign authority.
• Exodus 19: the community asks Moses to act as messenger between the community and God.
• 1 Samuel 8: community spokespersons request a human king as leader rather than God, despite a long list of abuses that God warns a human leader would impose. Abuse of power by human leaders seems historically a significant source of social issues.

Response To https://twitter.com/creationwrong/status/726865965040963585

Re: "just life", the issue seems to whether that aspect of life results in social issues, if so, whether that pattern can be interrupted, and if so, how it might be optimally interrupted. The SIDP presents the Bible's apparent answers "yes", "yes", and "solely by individuals accepting God as primary relationship and sovereign authority, and presents science's findings that seem to substantiate those answers.

Re: God not charting courses, to me, science's findings seem most logically interpreted as suggesting the contrary. Apparently, every aspect of reality observed by science has a charted course, the complexity of intrinsic options of which seem to vary widely from the very simple to very complex. Humans do not seem reasonably suggested to be exceptions to that pattern, but their course complexity seems generally considered greatest of all humanly-observed aspects of reality, and apparently therefore, seems considered to offer the greatest level of choice. To the extent that God is considered the establisher of reality, God seems most logically suggested to be the charter of human course, at both general and individual levels. Human attempt to ignore God's sovereign authority and travel outside of the range of general and perhaps even individual courses seems demonstrably suggested to be the cause of all social issues.

Response To https://twitter.com/reasonandlogic/status/728263638801338368

To me, logic seems to suggest that, if given that a set of directives' transceiver is omnipotent God, and the receivers are fallible humans with the ability to choose to versus not to accept God as primary relationship and sovereign authority, and apparently as a result, make themselves more versus less available to perceive God's direction, as well as more versus less likely to implement it respectively, responsibility for social issues seems primarily attributed to humans rather than God.

I welcome your thoughts, including to the contrary.

Response To https://twitter.com/reasonandlogic/status/728242861913874432

Perhaps the various versions of The Bible are due to the versionists' potentially conflicting interpretation of the Bible's original writings.

Science seems to suggest that all human perception essentially interprets sensory data. Apparently, therefore, all sensory data, perhaps especially verbal communication in which words potentially have multiple meanings, seems reasonably suggested to be open to interpretation. Potentially differing interpretation of communication seems a generally-accepted result of human communication.

However, to me, all 66 books of the Bible seem intended to convey the message that the key to optimal human experience is individual acceptance of God as primary relationship and sovereign authority. The SIDP discusses science's findings that seem to substantiate that message.

I welcome your thoughts.

Happy Without God

To me, the issue seems to extend beyond one person's happiness to (a) the apparently-suggested unhappiness of many, past, present and potential future, (b) the extent to which God exists, and (c) the extent to which unhappiness is the result of individuals not accepting God as primary relationship and sovereign authority.

Communicating With God

Prayer
Responds to: https://twitter.com/reasonandlogic/status/728929435102134272

To me, the Bible seems to suggest that "prayer" is the human-to-God portion of the potential God/human dialogue. That dialogue seems an important aspect of accepting God as primary relationship and sovereign authority, and seems to potentially include any topic of interest to the individual. I welcome your thoughts, including to the contrary.

Communication Audibly Or Via Thought
Responds to: https://twitter.com/Atheist_Khan/status/728925324180897792

To me, the Bible doesn't seem to suggest inability to communicate via sound waves. However, to me, thought-based communication with God seems less subject to fraudulent imitation.

Primary Relationship With God And Child Development

To me, science's findings seem to substantiate the suggestion that the key to optimal human experience is individual acceptance of God as primary relationship and sovereign authority. To me, the key to optimal human experience seems reasonably described as the most important life-skill, and life-skills seem generally considered to optimally be taught as early in child development as children can process them.