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What Role Does God Play in Human Actions Today?


As a former pastor and law enforcement chaplain, why something bad thing happened was a question I was asked many times. Many of the answers people give are directly linked to the five belief options below. Keep in mind that the answers are Institutional Truths, Personal Opinions or combinations of both. Making clear distinctions between the type of information beliefs are based on is one of the most important skills you can develop for dealing with the massive amounts of information you encounter every day (click here for more information).

Belief Options About the Role God Plays in Human Actions Today

Option #1: People have freewill to do good or bad things. Bad things happen because people chose to do them or nature caused them – There are reasons that things happen.

Option #2: People have freewill, but God intervenes in events from time to time.

Option #3: God predetermined all human actions at the creation; every person is born with a prewritten, but unknown to them, script of their entire lives – Everything happens for a reason.

Option #4: God and Satan are in a cosmic war for the souls of humans. God is actively engaged in influencing people to do good things, while Satan is actively engaged in influencing people to do evil things – The devil made me do it.

Option #5: People are animals with instincts and human nature.
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The lives of billions of people are directly affected by the five belief options above. They influence how people view things that are happening in the world, what they do about those things, what they do not do about those things, what they expect other people to do and what they think God wants them to do.

One of the most important things we must do
is clearly identify the belief option(s) our subconscious mind
uses to make decisions.

The next thing we can do is make sure the roles belief options play are part of conversations about things that are happening today. Those conversations are functions of the conscious mind (the rider), but it is the elephant (subconscious) that exerts the most power.

While we do the things above, we must also identify the sources of our belief options (especially those from institutions) explore their origins and histories. This brings transparency to our thinking process and exposes predatory institutions and individuals.

We are genetically hardwired to be “believing creatures.” We can’t help it. Facts make us aware of what exists in the physical world, but facts tell us nothing about what those things are, how they are related or what our strategies should be when we encounter them. Beliefs give meanings to the things we sensory perceive – and they insert things into our realities that aren’t sensory perceived!

Thank you for reading this. Please share and discuss it with others.

May your life be blessed with an abundance of TOV,
Jim Myers

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