Let’s talk a bit more on the subject of sentience, Gentle Reader. In fact, let’s look at a few of the quandaries for the human “being” posed by sentience.
Consider this quandary: Of peril to sentient human beings is that sentience is an experience able to exalt or debase. Sentience can result in beauteous being or monstrous being. Expressions of love for our fellow human beings are beauteous (John 15:12, NKJV). Expressions of hate for one another are monstrous, and so on.
Consider this quandary: God lives an exalted life of mastery of sentience by exhibiting emotion with an appropriate measure of graciousness and justifiability at all times—by choice. He wants us to live this life of mastered sentience, too, of appropriate graciousness. By the example of Jesus, He shows us how to master sentience, master our feelings, harness them to good, how to perfect this appropriate graciousness (The Beatitudes. Matthew 5 – 7, NKJV). Everyone at one time or the other chooses not to live with His appropriate graciousness.
Now, admittedly, because of the fall of humankind, such mastery is, of course, routinely a very limited commodity among us human-type people. But because of Jesus, the cross and His Resurrection, the Bible says (and the Bible is “the” book of exalted thinking) that humankind, each and every one of us, can choose to be made “new,” made a “new creation” (2 Corinthians 5:17, NKJV) governed by exalted thinking of the highest order, made “new” by choosing Jesus—letting His Way be our Way (John 14:6, NKJV).
To be continued . . .
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