Creating the Next New ‘Big’ Idea

Some people set out to impress with ‘big’ ideas. Others develop ‘big’ ideas in response to new knowledge upon which they arrive, knowledge they arrive upon sometimes rather stumblingly, as opposed to via active, premeditated search.

Martin Luther, the Reformer ‘stumbled’ on his theological challenges to the mother church of his time. In course of his study of Christian Scriptures (the Bible), he arrived at the recognition that church traditions were not in conformance with Christian Scriptures. Martin Luther was excommunicated from the mother church, the Bible got printed for all to read, educated Christians studied the Bible, found out Luther was right. Today, no Christian in his or her right mind challenges Luther’s interpretation of ‘salvation by grace through faith’, not even the church entity that is descendant of mother church of his time.

John Calvin (1509–1564) lived about the same time as Martin Luther (1483–1546), also contributed significantly to understanding of Christian Scriptures. In his bid to be original perhaps, Calvin made a mistake, asserted God predestinates some people to damnation, such that they cannot be saved.

The problem? In today’s world, there are Christians who believe they can gang up to determine that some persons of whom they are aware, some neighbors far or near are not fit for salvation, hence they are…