“ It is one of the greatest sins, to give people what they deserve.
— At most points in the day, people deserve chastisement. But we do not deserve to give people what they deserve.
Towards the Light
The mark of the philosopher is not that he has answers, but questions; not that he is wise, but that he is confused.
“The same life that comes to a peak in old age also comes to a peak in wisdom, in that gentle sunshine of continual spiritual joyfulness; you encounter both old age and wisdom on one ridge of life - that is how nature wanted it. Then it is time, and no cause for anger that the fog of death is approaching.
Towards the light - your last movement; a joyful shout of knowledge - your last sound.”
- Friedrich Nietzsche
“ Love forgives. It does not excuse.
On the day when the former things pass away, when there is no more pain and no more tears, when there is no more shame or fear.
On that day,
There will be no more failure.
From that day you will never let anyone down anymore. Your neighbour or your Lord.
No more harm will come from your hands, your lips or your heart.
Your failings in the present life will cease. For the former things have passed away.
Just hold on for that day.
“ Singleness is a gift. Use it wisely and don’t give it away before you’re done with it.
I have posed this question to Christians MANY times and as of yet I have never gotten a response addressing how they can believe both Jesus was sent to redeem sin and evolution. Science and religion just aren’t compatible on many levels and this is one of them.
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thelachster:
This is a display of astounding ignorance.
If evolution is true, then either Genesis 1-3 are false, or they are allegorical.
People have thought Genesis was allegorical since centuries before anybody ever thought of evolution. From a purely literary standpoint, a metaphorical interpretation just makes more sense in my mind. These chapters are a poem, afterall.
Also, to say that if the first people didn’t eat an apple then Jesus had no reason to die on a cross is ludicrous. Whatever way you interpret Genesis, there is no denying that there is evil in the world. The Genesis account explains evil, but surely the writer of Genesis was not trying to convince anyone that evil exists. Everybody knows it does. People do bad things all the time and you don’t need a creation narrative to tell you that. Biblically, Jesus died as much for our individual sin just as much as he died for any notion of “original sin”.
Perhaps some people are not trustworthy because no one has been entrusting anything into their hands - no one has taken a chance with them and given them their trust, so they haven’t had reason to be trustworthy.
If I don’t lend my trust to someone, how can they learn to treat it properly?
Our love must always be unconditional.
Our love, but not our trust.
“ At some point, happiness has to be a choice.
“ When my heart won’t make a sound.
