https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-god-who-took-away-my-wife-1473981767
Comments here make man the center of what is going on in the Bible, and I don't think that that is the case. God is the center, while man is on the periphery.
And there is someone else, who isn't being discussed, who is an enormous part of the drama: Satan. The drama that's playing out in heaven and on Earth involves all three and it's clear that a good share of the plot hasn't been shared with us yet.
We know a bit about how it began, what's going on, and how it will end, but we don't have the knowledge that God has. Maybe someday, we will know. But, until then, we shouldn't be too concerned with why God has chosen to keep us uninformed. The important thing is we are his creations and he has provided us a way of escape from judgment.
It is just human hubris to think that we should be privileged to know everything that God does--and that is sin. He lets us know what we need to know and nothing more. And it's cool to know that Satan will lose.
"Darwin was the first to use data from nature to convince people that evolution is true, and his idea of natural selection was truly novel. It testifies to his genius that the concept of natural theology, accepted by most educated Westerners before 1859, was vanquished within only a few years by a single five-hundred-page book. On the Origin of Species turned the mysteries of life's diversity from mythology into genuine science." -- Jerry Coyne
Tuesday, January 23, 2018
I found some extreme Christian stupid at the Wall Street Journal. For me it's difficult to understand how anyone could be so hopelessly fucking stupid.
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