<<...my Might Makes Right campaign. Cut God out of the picture completely, and then consider my point...>> Ok, if we take God out of the picture, Might merely defines your relative ability to wield resources and more likely to be successful at achieving your objective than a competitor with less resources. Right implies that your aim is on target. Lets say you aim for satisfaction of some desire, for example. Let us say that you want to be pleased in your relation with a female. So, you grab this attractive female by the locks and force your self on her. Well, your objective was to have your way with her but your aim was satisfaction. You met your objective but now you find your "aim" of satisfaction is not satisfied and because of how this female has been changed, it never will be. So, were you right? You incorrectly established your objective which was off target for your established goal of satisfying your desire to be pleased with your relationship with the female. You met your objective but failed to achieve your goal.
Failure at your own mighty hands infact makes you less right than if you had correctly set your objective but some other force was creating a barrier to achievement. In the first case you have ultimately failed; where as in the latter case you have recourse to continue and have no reason to write it off as a failure.
This in fact is often the case for most of us. The ideas we dream up from our own wisdom become tragically disappointing when we find them flawed. Intelligent people readily find through scripture or prayer confirmation of our fallibility as well as hope and direction for its remedy. The messengers of this "way" of life never take credit for its right/righteousness and yet it clearly is right. They always give credit to God and why over all of history would these saintly messengers repeatedly make this the one lie to mix into the whole shebang?
<<What is beyond speculation is the fact that Might Makes Right. (grin – okay okay)>>
OK, so now lets put God back into it. The fact that a person can use the resources given to them in this life time to accomplish whatever goal they wish means nothing except that they have free will. If we consider God all powerful, then we have no reason to consider someone accomplishing an evil goal to have done so against God's will. If God wills something it is. If God wills that something not be, well then by God, it cannot be. If by your free will you choose evil, God has the power to see this manifest in the temporal domain and as such his will for your eternal soul is just and right as well. In this sense being mighty or meekly means only that no matter what course you choose in life the eternal plan, for your soul is right and just but you have no power to effect the measure of its rightness. You and your behavior makes nothing essentially more right or more wrong. What is right, is right by its essential righteousness.
God's message on morality is always right. Science is always right too. Yah, I like the one about frogs being morphed out of mud through spontaineous generation. Aristotle and followers of the time were convinced they were right. The follow-up studies definately gave us useful information about God's creation and should have humbled the science worshippers enough that they would stop worshipping their job.
Oh well, there is my effort. If it isn't 100% true, then I am 100% consistant. What isn't true is from my flawed ego, what is true is from God as always.
Have peace |
