H L Heckel III

Matthew Commentary H L Heckel III

According to biology and Darwin, for a species to have survived in nature, each individual must be able to react positively to its environment. If that is the way we are made, shouldn't each individual do this best, so that they maximize their quality of life, given their situation? If we are designed by God, wouldn't there be rules on how to do this and wouldn't he have given us these rules? This commentary proposes that Jesus gave humans the Natural Laws of Human Behavior and these maximize the individual's quality of life given their situation. Biology and the social sciences are used to explain why these rules maximize the individual's quality of life, thus proving they are natural laws (and thus giving a scientific proof that Jesus is God). This is a teaching approach to explain the benefit of what Jesus taught. Each set of verses with the words of Jesus is followed with one or more explanations, so that this book can be read as a whole or just particular verses with their comments. There is mention of spirituality in this commentary, but generally it is to point out that if we have scientifically proven Jesus is God, then all the spiritual references have to be true. The author was born in 1945. His mother was a religion major and his father had a PhD in chemistry and did not believe in "superstition". The author majored in political science and earned his living as a computer applications programmer and systems analyst. He is the author of Man and Security.