Well, its too complicated. I've learned too much and I don't know what is necessarily more important than the others. That being said, I might expand this to more than just the top ten. we shall see. So thats that.
Number 8
Humans have changed drastically over the past few thousands years. For example, today we care more about entertainment and pleasure than any other generation on earth.
But the basic needs and defining actions that make us human have not changed at all. This creates a problem then for modern day man because our desires are not any where close to what are needs are. Ancient man cared about surviving...so finding food was a crucial part of everyday life. They worked in the dirt because of a desire to live. Eating was what was required to live, and the action of finding the food became integrated into everyday life and understanding of the cosmos. Today, we just want the food but don't want the actions to get it. Our motive to eat is not a desire for survival, but a desire for pleasure. We have the basic needs or survival, what becomes "culture" then today is not harvest festivals and the like, but rather entertainment. This I believe creates a huge gap between what life is and what life was like historically. This is also why Americans can't understand the 3rd world at all, regardless of how poor you are. And as far as the American Church goes, this creates friction with our understanding of the Bible because the Bible was written in and by a people group that had a drastically different understanding on how to live everyday life.
Mankind within the past hundreds years or so has accomplished what mankind for thousands of years tried to do: a way to have a cake and eat it too.
It's called going to Cub Foods and buying another one.
Number 7
Academia knows practically nothing. A lot of society today is based on what academia teaches, and ones ability to be involved in it. Knowledge is everything today. Just ask Google.
However, when it comes to history, we have to believe we think we know what we want to know.
Basically I am saying, all views and opinions, especially in context of Biblical history and theoogy, has some level of bias intertwined into someones explanatioon. The absolute best thing we can do, is take all of the data we have and then make logical sense of it. There will still be some bias (based on ones own personal reference and starting points), but the fact is, truth is truth and can be discovered. I however, do believe that my understandings should come between me and another human being.
Religion has caused so many problems in the world. Lets move beyond religion and start with relations.
More to come.
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