The worth of the human person

When we look at the Ideas and accumulated beliefs we face in life we may easily be able to recognize that these beliefs were delivered through various arguments of history. This thought the arguments used produced a system of thought that became accepted and was passed down. It was used by us personally to form our belief story that gives order to our world view whatever our view is and whatever form it’s in.  

This process of belief building across humanity I interpret creates a struggle where ideas and what is accepted as truth and what isn’t is pursued. These ideas are competed over for acceptance. The truth in it’s various and differing claims, in this way, is fought over for what legitimately is the right way of seeing the truth. Everyone in the struggle is asserting what they think and sometimes demand the truth is.  

I wonder about this struggle sometimes from my limited knowledge on the topic. I see this pursuit of truth as mysteriously being part of how the world works. Different ideas are arranged in the effort of pursuing change through that influence. The change comes through speeches delivered in lecture halls, writings written in newspaper story's, teachings argued from the pulpits, etc. with it all effecting Earths cultures and civilizations.

Religion makes claims in this competition for ideas and it uses it’s own ideas to persuade what people’s beliefs are.  We often contemplate how we got here and what the overarching force, power, or influence of this life being here really is.

What ethical influences get pursued or opposed by people is in direct response to what we believe. What people understand to be our eternal fate is all contested by different kinds of beliefs. As we debate about these things a question becomes will people choose to accept the existence of God.

My question then is Is it fair to use religious doctrine to justify blaming the individual for his/her resulting opinions, understanding and perspective while that individual life is effected perhaps innocently or ignorantly by alternative thought.

Humanity at large is divided across the earth with different converts to many of the worlds ideas. These ideas, in whatever form they take, effect all of us everywhere. Isn’t it irrational in the way we think of our neighbor for us to judge each other coldly. We try and decide what judgment God will impose on all human beings. Is our ultimate hope and salvation or abandonment to be determined by every vulnerable persons feeble ability to be able to transcend a specific experience and limitation of judgment. Isn’t it ridiculous to expect everyone to attain and know certain ideas perhaps entirely foreign to that persons culture. Those ideas may not reach his/her ears in attractive form if at all.

The person deciding what the truth is may actually be wrong yes. Truth claims are acquired by believing different things formed into argument. The limitations on peoples opinions means that there is a vulnerability in us to be effected and influenced by persuasion. This must be something clearly understand by an all knowing God. If we study history we see in the dark ages the limitations on knowing the Theology then that is now common to our age. Because of human ignorance people did not know much about Jesus but if Bibles had of been widely printed or read it was  to result in the condemnation of Hell for the unsaved. Error more commonly then uncommonly has been the order of existence and is prevalent across the human condition. We are also all vulnerably influenced by authoritative appeals for our minds loyalty that is competing for our conviction mysteriously in life.

Those appeals will affect what we understand in different regions, cultures, and because of different educational opportunities we face etc.. Why should we put blame on any individual or group among the different communities of people who must live with and face an unavoidable discrepancy of error that is natural and unavoidable to the human condition. That kind of common error forms all our incomplete thoughts wherever we are and is the common process that we all face. It’s more then irrational  to condemn others that face this common error to knowing what the real truth is. We exist in a place of much uncertainty to what the truth is so this is most unwise. All people are incapable of thinking and agreeing with you or me in so many ways because our imperfect minds are all effected by various perspectives some healthier then others but all being ideologically compromised somehow.

None of us, I suggest, is so wise to be guaranteed the wisdom to choose right between all the ideas of uncertainty overarching our life. Where one happens to reside living there obviously obstructs ones ability to see truth absolutely. Living there it necessarily effects ones ability to see the truth claim of someone else's. Wherever the individual is to hold him/her to an account of condemnation for the resulting seeds of thought they have arrived at there is bazar and unfair. The fact that misunderstandings, errors, and misbeliefs, will occur to us all in all of our experiences is so common that it is more then strange to condemn people for it. It is especially strange when we suggest that God will judge the world in this way.

Fairly speaking we should be able to see where ideas can commonly go wrong. We should not assume that personally we’re not susceptible to the error of judgment common to all human beings. We shouldn’t worry about our own skin being self-satisfied we have it all right while being suspicious and condemning of others. Ideas have always lead opinionated people by leading them with great conviction down the many ideological roads that compete for the truth of what’s legitimate in life. This happens in different thought form across the planet regardless how insightful the person deciding within these ideas is. Our environment produces these many different believers of all differing ideas.

To give up on anyone who is a part of this existence in life is mistaken. Here in this existence ignorance of what the truth is is the general rule of how things really work in life and not the exception of things. It is odd to be a human on planet Earth and think one knows everything when life has never come with any total guarantees of clarity as to what truth is in completeness.

Why do we equate from this confusion of life that man should be judged severely by God for error. The ideas we acknowledge in error are often born naively into our thoughts from ideological persuasions that win our trust.  We are in a world where propaganda and persuasions of all sorts make for what is the most unfair kind of burden to be put on us. The worth of the human person must be preserved and always defended when we think of what our fate will be gauging our destiny on the guidance of archaic writing.

Will God cast away into Hell the conformists to alternative ideas that seem attractive but are wrong. if the ideas are wrong does that person have any universal commonly held opportunity to recognize it so. When we look at other people of other cultures and beliefs why can’t we see ourselves in them. Why don’t we look at them and see them exactly as we all are which is entirely alike, worth the same amount as we are, and loved the same as us. Existence should be a place where not one of us is any better then any other in the eyes of a Holy God.