[Serious] Literal and Not Literal

[EgoDeath]

It depends on the goal, surely some task like teaching my daughter math, or how to walk the street, how to warm a bottle, is better served by instructions, but somethings are not though, like being a good person, living a meaningful life, being kind, or loving others, being honest, etc...

If I think of a hierarchy of importance, for things I want of my daughter, nothing is closely superior to my desire for her to be a good person, kind hearted, loving, etc... There's no set of instructions I have for this, just like there's no set of instructions my mother gave me for this. But rather it's shown through the demonstration of life. And there is a sort of rare profound beautiful life, that not contingent on any professional success, income, suffering or fortune, A life nothing can take away. Maybe you know of no such life, but I do, and thats what I want her to know as well. 

And yes Christ possessed such a life, but so has  my mother, so do some of my friends etc... a reflection of that very life. No instructions I can convey would ever show this to my daughter, but if I live as a reflection of it, raise her in a community of people who do, she can see it and seek it too. Just like I've seen it, and seek it too. 


If there is a God, I wouldn't look for any financial advice, or politic advise, or history or science, or how to cross the street. I want to know, when looking out on the possible lives of men,  is there a profound life worth pursuing? If so, show it to us. 

If there isn't, God can keep whatever he has to say, and let us all go on with our lives as if he doesn't exist in the first place.

So your mother never taught you to say please and thank you? Or wash your hands after using the bathroom? Or to tell people "Happy Birthday" when it's their birthday?

Are these not instructions on how to be polite, thoughtful and caring human beings?

Certainly some behaviors are learned "subconsciously," through watching how our role models behave. But specific instruction is damn near just as, if not just as, important.

You're trying to downplay the importance of concise, specific instruction and it's simply not working. That you're trying to frame the unspoken as superior to the spoken is not working.

And why WOULDN'T god give us financial advice? Surely he wouldn't known how important that'd be in 2019? If anything, that makes me care for the Bible even less.

And even in "showing" us a "profound life worth pursuing," some clear instructions would be nice along with having a good role model.

That being said, I'm not so convinced that Jesus is a good role model. But hey, live your best (profound) life.