ALTER2EGO -to- EVERYONE: The routine of skeptics is to point at the consequences of human wickedness and blame the God of the Judeo-Christian Bible for "creating those types of people." They frequently accompany that comment with a similar one, namely, that God is "omniscient" aka "all knowing" and therefore, God knew what humans would do before he even created them. Human wickedness has resulted in the following: 1. Heavy use of fossil fuels has caused global warming, which, in turn, has resulted in melting of the ice sheets. 2. The melting of the ice sheets, in turn, has resulted in rise in the sea level and devastating floods where none previously were. 3. The rise in the sea level is swallowing up various Pacific islands where people live. 4. Global warming has resulted in more powerful and therefore more deadly hurricanes. 5. Humans have ruined the environment with pesticides, which kill off insects that are vital to the health of the soil. 6. Humans have spilled oil in the sea and killed off wildlife and sea creatures. 7. Humans have purposely and illegally dumped waste materials in the ocean and destroyed sea creatures. 8. Humans have ruined land and sea with plastic and other useless materials that they had no business creating from the get-go. And that is just a tip of the iceberg. I have not even touched the moral decay of humanity that has resulted in all types of diseases--because humans have refused to follow Jehovah's guidelines. The skeptics ignore the following facts: A. Almighty God endowed humans with free will -- the ability to make independent decisions. B. Along with free will, Jehovah provided written instructions to humanity in his inspired word, the Judeo-Christian Bible, which if followed, would have prevented the harmful results listed above. C. Humans chose to ignore God's written instructions, and they have chosen to abuse the environment as well as abuse other humans. "See! This only I have found, that the true God made mankind upright, but they themselves have sought out many plans." (Ecclesiastes 7:29) POINT FOR DISCUSSION: Who is actually responsible for the bad behavior of rebellious humans, and why? ________________ "That people may know that you, whose name is JEHOVAH, you alone are the Most High over all the earth." ~ Psalms 83:18