(December 10, 2013 at 11:28 am)StrongWaters Wrote: Why do you have to ask for god to open eyes?There is a difference between asking someone to do the hard work necessary to see the results they desire, and asking them to figure out the correct interpretation of a set of laws (and rules and standards and morals, that no one has been able to clearly interpret for centuries) in order to follow them even when his heart is set on pleasing god. It's not only cruel, it's inefficient and works contrary to the ideals of a being who wishes for everyone to be saved.
---It's a treasure. The slave is the one who opens the pegmatite in the mine. The King is the one who sends him to the labor. In Hebrew culture, the Guardian was assigned to the land owner's Son to oversee him working the land. It was a way to teach the son through hard labor. When the Son comes of age, he is the new land owner, read to oversee the entire property.
The effort in pleasing god should not from trying to figure out which of the myriad interpretations are the correct ones; the Bible makes clear that even when you know what to do, and even when the commands come directly from god, some people will fail to serve him. Making it even more difficult to do so in such an underhanded manner makes no sense at all.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould