My version of TRUTH

Protagoras believed "What is true for you is true for you, and what is true for me, is true for me." The story goes to end with Protagoras agreeing to Socrates. I'm a Christian. I will defend my TRUTH. There will be a lot of Socrates' out there waiting to click the "comment" button and I may lose the argument. I have no problem with losing. I can face defeat in this lifetime if that's the only way to my eternity with Jesus.

1. God is incomplete without Man.  I believe in faith that God, being the first and the Creator, cannot just be a complete person without a creature who does what is supposed to be done because he is programmed to do so. Let me explain. Let's imagine I am God. Because I am God I can do ALL things. There is no limit and what my mind can imagine will happen in an instant. Now, if I know everything and can do everything what is left for me? None. The best thing I will do is to create something that has a degree of predictability and un-predictability. Does environment, animals, worlds fit the bill? No, only man fits the bill.

2. God learns from Man. From the time of Adam God has been patiently studying man and how He grows. How man's understanding works and how man is slowly becoming a creature that is most lovable yet can also be most hate-able. Where did God learn about burnt offerings? Where did God learn about blood sacrifice? Where did God learn about affection and attention deficit-turned envy-turned murder(Cain and Abel)?

3. God understands Man. There are lots of theories about why God did not kill Cain. I believe that God learned from the experience of the First Offerings. There are two things that I see in Adam that helps me explain why there was murder. If I was Adam there will be only one of the two emotions that I will feel because God cursed me and my family. It's just I either regret or hate. I might regret because (first assumption has the idea of God) "I did not think that the man that I was talking to was the greatest of all beings."; or (second assumption has no idea of God) "I could have done better instead of listening to Eve." Hatred (third assumption) may also be sown by simply pointing a finger at God and blaming God for my (Adam's) ignorance.

Adam will then tell the story to his children. Depending on his emotions or the interpretation of his children the die is cast. We know how Cain and Abel both interpreted it based on two assumptions. This is the first time Man tried to reach out to God because one of them believed that the human need for "connection" can be satisfied.

4. God forgives Man. As a being who has the mind and facilities of God man is able to do things that are even beyond God's imagination. God's original plan for man was to be a steward. It was not meant for man to learn how to plant and domesticate animals, create society, religion, community, politics and family. However, in the process of being man, man stumbles and falters. It is but normal to think that even if Adam and Eve was made (not born) God considered them as babies and forgave them for their sins. This is still the same situation that mankind is in. Again this shows that God's understanding of man is more than our understanding of ourselves.

5. God redeems Man. Redemption is such a big word. It means that man in his own ways can invent and make things better but still mess everything up. However, this subjected man to a lot of stresses while living. Pressure emanating from the family, community, society, government, peers and media. This makes his direction so varied and misaligned. In the end the good thing he has created will one day will be his failure. What inventions of today and of the past did not cause mankind to fail in some ways? No amount of human intelligence can save us from our own mess. God offered a way out and that is through Redemption. He will take us back away from this world.

6. Grace is God's greatest weakness. No matter how holy God is grace shadows his demand for holiness. I say shadow because his grace allows us to still live unpunished even though we sin and we sin repeatedly. We are sinning every moment and there is no way of stopping it. No one is exempt. He gives grace to the rich and poor, sinner and poor, wicked and righteous.

7. God will reward Man. I believe that the afterlife of everyone is the day of accounting. This is the part when God will ask us how we made use of the gift of life. For those who believed and have faith in God and acted with gratitude and grace in faith will be taken to another place. God has set a time for grace and justice. Justice comes to every man when he dies and faces his Maker. If that man lived by faith he will receive grace but if that man did not live by faith he will receive justice from God. All of God's anger will be poured.

Well, it's been a very long time since I have posted in my blog. But I will not stop writing. I hope you have learned as much as I do. Please comment and let me know of anything that may help me grow in faith.