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Let's form a list of items from the Bible that shows the contrast of God's ways and thoughts as compared to those of humans.

Of course, the foundation verse to launch this is Isaiah 55:8, 9 "For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts."

The most obvious would be God's view of His Son versus human's view of Jesus. 1 John makes it clear this is the first point of departure, and by extension, a wrong view of Jesus is part of a larger wrong view of God.

But, aside from that, what kind of list can we make that shows this "great gulf fixed" when comparing God's ways and thoughts with those of humans.

One and two might be the first two items in 2Timothy 3:2, "For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous..."

Love of self and love of money both show the wide gap between the way God wants us to live and think and the way we actually live and think.
What the world says is our greatest need (to love self); God says is our greatest problem.
Since covetousness is listed right after love of self, the greedy love of money is the first branch that grows from the tree of self-love.
We are living that truth leading up to and in the after-effects of the current economic crisis.

The end result of both love of self and love of money is it has caused so many to "err from the faith" and as a final result, "pierced themselves through with many arrows" 1Timothy 6:10.

Or, as Solomon found out and described in Ecclesiastes, the end result of love of self and love of money is, "vanity of vanities, all is vanity."
These two departures from God's ways and thoughts produce only emptiness.

Finally, we are told that to love God and love others are the two great commandments. It's interesting the wording says, "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself," Matthew 22:39. God is quite aware we already love ourselves and that if we loved others even close to the degree we love self, we would fulfill the second great commandment. We don't have to learn to love self - it is very natural to humans.

What can you add to the list of our ways and thoughts that are in stark contrast to God's?