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Amidst all the hubbub surrounding purpose driven lives, abortion, homosexual marriage, seeker-sensitive churches and Lord knows what else there lies a common and quiet thread. I don’t know if the many of the church know about it. It may be that I am pointing out the obvious and everyone will just say DUH WE KNOW THAT! I suspect though that few are cognisant of this fact. This suspicion is rooted in the behaviour and attitude of our churches.

The main reasons humanity is on earth comes to us from Genesis 1: “And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.” Not much in Judaism or Christianity conflicts with this edict. Also please do not understand this in 21st century ecological terms, though I will not argue that now. All the world’s purpose is to rule over the earth. I suspect that means we are to make it like a beautiful garden filled with every good thing. But what precisely it means isn’t necessary for the purpose of my point.

The proximate cause for our existence isn’t to be happy, or even to be good; it is to be kings and queens over a great earth. Goodness of course is the way we are made to be. It is impossible for us to have been made for evil. Happiness is like food and sex: a great thing to possess but by no means a necessary trait for ruling. And yes food for some people is not required.

Yet don’t you think many people who are against homosexual marriage are against it merely because they are against homosexuality? At best, at least, the point should be reiterated: homosexual marriage directly conflicts with our stated purpose. You cannot be a fruitful homosexual. Homosexuality requires a great turn inward and you cannot subdue the earth when so positioned.

The Church says be happy when it should say “Rule this place the way you know it should be ruled.”

Just image a person going to work not knowing what it is they are supposed to do. They get different directions from three people, attend a meeting they know nothing about, and accomplish nothing. Imagine doing that job for a lifetime. It would confound the soul utterly. Yet we live like this.

There is more to say on this, this writing is a bit fragmented.