Fireside Chat 307, What God Cares About Most

 

 

I took some notes on his chat shared with the public on 9/21/23.

 

I wrote what was of interest to me in the following notes: Prager gives 5 proofs of what God cares about most, and I looked up the other 3 online from his article of the same title.

 

Prager: Most Americans do not know about evil especially in the totalitarian 20^th century.

 

1.     God cares most about how his human creatures treat each other; God cares most about good and evil. What Prager says is unique about its flood story is that God destroyed the world because everyone was good, except for Noah, righteous and decent so he was saved.

 

My response: Peterson and Prager see God as caring most about moral goodness, but I couple that with spiritual goodness too, for we cannot be or do one without the other (Yes, there are good atheists, and wicked religious believers, but these are exceptions not the rule, and the exception does prove the rule.) As a Christian, I believe one gets to heaven by good works as well and good, holy faith, and that one cannot be saved without being both moral and pious at the same time, in a very intertwined way.

 

2.     Prager: Noah saved for being good.

 

3.     Prager: God is spiritually good, and loving, just and not partial, very moral, nearly perfectly so.

 

4.     Prager: For God, the division is not based on Jew and non-Jew (group versus group by identity, stating is is preferred or disfavored) but good people versus bad people. Pharaoh’s daughter, an Egyptian and close to wicked Pharaoh, is the saintly non-Jew that saves Moses and rears him. Viktor Frankl recognized only two races, the decent and the indecent, the only identity groups that are moral, and to be noted; none of the others are that important. The Leftists divide the world between the rich and poor like the Marxists do. Only one’s character matters.

 

My response: The indecent are mostly wicked joiners and a few selfish loners, and the decent are mostly good loners, and a few unselfish joiners, but Prager is an altruist, si I extended his category beyond decent and indecent, but his thinking seems to anticipate the extension of moral characterization hat I have concluded apply.

 

5.     The Bible and the Ten Commandments express biblical law about kindness to animals, and that is rare in ancient religion. Morality is critically important to God.

6.     Slavery not outlawed in the Bible but was bracketed a bit—(We cannot be good as we can be unless we are free from external tyranny and bondage,  Ed Says.).

 

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Prophets are preoccupied with moral behavior.

 

7.     God loves a people that are just.