In the Sermon on the Mount Jesus offers you a life that an stand up to anything.
But how can we choose when just trying to figure out what is real is so hard and divide even in basic questions of life today?
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While it is emotionally satisfying and comfortable to live surrounded by people who see the world just like you do it can be a dangerous situation. Because we crave comfort and affirmation we tend to associate with people of like mind. “Birds of a feather flock together.” This is true in politics and religion.
Figuring out what is true and what is good are two of the central challenges for all of human existence. A lot rides on this. If there is actually an objective reality out there being out of line with it may be emotionally comfortable but in the end truth eventually prevails. It can be no other way.
If, as Christianity has always maintained, the universe is the creation of an all good, all powerful God, then to know what is good is also foundational because just like truth, goodness must eventually prevail and it is in one’s best interest to also align with that.
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