The metaphor of a terminal disease is quite fitting to
illustrate the danger of this situation.
Imagine that someone has a terminal disease. If you hide it from them – regardless of your intentions – and pretend that everything is good, it doesn’t help.
It would be even worse if you didn’t understand what it is, because if you don’t understand it, how could you ever hope to deal with it?!
One of the misunderstandings that we have in society today is that human beings are intrinsically good: that we just need to let this inner goodness grow in us and flourish. But this false assumption has led to a situation in which everything we desire in our hearts, however strange or harmful it may be, is considered “natural”.
For we are good… aren’t we?
We haven’t yet reached the stage where we accept everything as good, but we are well on our way. When it comes to the concept of sin, we have lost our understanding of it. As far as I have seen, the average person thinks that sin means something really, really bad that someone else has done – maybe Hitler, Stalin, Mao, or Pol Pot…
But wait, what if there is more to be said, and what if it matters?
To be continued…
Watch video and engage conversations on “Wisdom 4 Relationships” course.
Imagine that someone has a terminal disease. If you hide it from them – regardless of your intentions – and pretend that everything is good, it doesn’t help.
It would be even worse if you didn’t understand what it is, because if you don’t understand it, how could you ever hope to deal with it?!
One of the misunderstandings that we have in society today is that human beings are intrinsically good: that we just need to let this inner goodness grow in us and flourish. But this false assumption has led to a situation in which everything we desire in our hearts, however strange or harmful it may be, is considered “natural”.
For we are good… aren’t we?
We haven’t yet reached the stage where we accept everything as good, but we are well on our way. When it comes to the concept of sin, we have lost our understanding of it. As far as I have seen, the average person thinks that sin means something really, really bad that someone else has done – maybe Hitler, Stalin, Mao, or Pol Pot…
But wait, what if there is more to be said, and what if it matters?
To be continued…
Watch video and engage conversations on “Wisdom 4 Relationships” course.
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