Hating Those We Don't Know

If anyone out there has seen The Brick Testament's treatment of Deuteronomy 13 (and following), it might remind you that there are so many people in this world who dismiss God out of hand, never giving him a chance.

I just finished reading Lamentations last night and I could hear the tears of the unwritten half of the story (i.e. God's point of view.) It's so easy to hate someone you don't know - and so many athiests hate God while not even knowing His true nature. All they see is things on the surface that they quickly use to judge God as evil.

So, after all that, I came up with this little paragraph - I think I'm going to call it "the pretext to the Golden Rule:"
In the beginning, the first thing God told the man and woman to do was to Know each other in the Biblical sense. The Serpent came along and told us we needed to know in the cognitive, intellectual sense. We still have a lot to learn from "Life 101."

It's easy to quickly gather some facts and seem like you know a lot. It takes much more to deeply know someone, to know God, personally.

To be continued...