That kind of inerrant belief in one's relation to God leaves little room for opposing viewpoints or wiggle space for countervailing facts.
Indian history, for example, contains a vast body of incredibly sophisticated scientific/academic literature on god, concepts of god, consciousness at it relates to god, the human body and human thoughts and emotions in relation to god… and, in the case of Kashmiri Shaivism for example, quantum physics as it relates to god.
Every aspect of nature was seen in relation to God.
This pain, my heterogeneity, I have understood as my relation to God.
Other interpretations of the person of Christ in relation to God went to the opposite extreme.
If we were unable to err, our relation to God would be robotic, meaningless in its hapless obedience.
Among Old Testament Jews the child's place in society replicated his father's, molded by his relation to God.
Koons, in full evangelical mode, said that he "wanted the piece to deal with the human condition, and this condition in relation to God.
Christian philosophers thought about perfectibility in relation to God, i.e., moral perfectibility, and Enlightenment writers conceived of it in terms of education and self-rule.
In the Christian world, of course, they have been supplemented by, and grounded in, the virtues of faith, hope and love that, in their full meaning, are bound up with relation to God".
Now it may be a long way from the technicalities of recalculating economic gains in terms of environmental cost to the experience of "erotic joy" in relation to God.
