(June 14, 2014 at 3:54 pm)Eye of God Wrote: I am a foolish human born with a sinful nature. Try not to judge my Lord for my prideful error. He is great and I am small and loathsome in his eyes.Why do this to yourself? Is that really what god thinks of you, that you are a wretched and loathsome sinner? When I was a Christian I never thought of him that way, that doesn't conform to the idea that god is a loving, kind, and patient father-figure. Think of god as an actual human parent, and imagine him telling another parent such things about you, and the look of disdain on his face. Is that how you want to imagine god? Or more like the parent who sees his child feeling miserable and takes him in his arms and comforts him?
God should be the parent who takes you out for ice cream when your error cost your little-league team an important game. He shouldn't be the parent who drives you home while cursing your incompetence and wondering aloud what he had done to be burdened with such a miserable brat.
"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
