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From Silver Cheetah, "To my mind, the bible contains one statement that - if we were to take it to heart and live it truly - would cause love, peace and happiness to flourish throughout the world. That statement is 'love thy neighbour as thyself'. "
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Matthew 19:19, Mark 12:31, Luke 10:27, Galatians 5:14
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On this point I agree. However, this is the *second* greatest commandment. And in the case of Galations 5:14, it states that this sums up the entire law.
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As far as my *own* thoughts, I believe that there a great deal of people living today who cannot see outside their own experiences, whose parameters for reality are set by what they can imagine, and not by what is unimaginable. Good and evil are always seen by these people from their own points of view, nearly always towards the benefit of themselves. I think "egocentric" is the word for which I search.
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What is nearly universal among Christians and non-Christians alike is presumption that humans innately know God's motives, and that God's thought processes and reasoning are based only upon whatever that particular person has knowledge (and mostly indirect knowledge at that) in the person's <100 year life-span.
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The arguments of Bible validity and Christian belief are not the same, nor are they dependent upon one another.
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