Study of Scripture through the filter of man's biases results in the type of man - centered ideas proferred by Baden, like «God learns to accept
their inherently evil nature», and humans «are the only species that can give him what he wants — which, in the view of Genesis, is bloody, burned animal sacrifices», and «it is, rather, our job to make ourselves uncomfortable that he might be appeased.»
Patricia Rose Pflaumer, who teaches at Abington (Massachusetts) High School, submitted this week's lesson, in which students debate the question Is human
nature inherently good or
inherently evil?