But my curiosity was sparked reading the comments to this article about a charming boy who tried to be "Christ-like."
There was a lot of discussion about the different interpretations of the bible's words; even whether Paul was rejecting being a Pharisee or still was one. Someone said, "couldn't God just tell people the accurate interpretation and be done?" Someone replied, "like the way you can tell bacteria to go away? God can't speak our language, that's why we have to use the bible"
And I thought to myself, if it is true that God has no way to speak to humans now and make the bible (and his existence) clear without argument, then how was Eve to know it was actually bad to eat the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge? What if she interpreted it wrong and thought it was actually okay?
Either God can communicate clearly and all Christians and Jews and Muslims should be on the same page - OR - Being Eve is no different than being the Westboro Baptist Church, the Pope, the gay minister in New Hampshire or the liberal UUer.
Can humans understand God or not?
There was a lot of discussion about the different interpretations of the bible's words; even whether Paul was rejecting being a Pharisee or still was one. Someone said, "couldn't God just tell people the accurate interpretation and be done?" Someone replied, "like the way you can tell bacteria to go away? God can't speak our language, that's why we have to use the bible"
And I thought to myself, if it is true that God has no way to speak to humans now and make the bible (and his existence) clear without argument, then how was Eve to know it was actually bad to eat the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge? What if she interpreted it wrong and thought it was actually okay?
Either God can communicate clearly and all Christians and Jews and Muslims should be on the same page - OR - Being Eve is no different than being the Westboro Baptist Church, the Pope, the gay minister in New Hampshire or the liberal UUer.
Can humans understand God or not?