The New Normal

Everyone assumes their perspective is a healthy and balanced one.  If we can see one person off in one direction, and another off in the other, we must be the one holding the privileged position of balance.  But maybe we need to take an often-overlooked factor into account. Ever since Genesis 3, humanity has been pickled in …

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Be Like God?

Consider the Serpent’s second statement to Eve, how he discounted the promise of death and offered an alternative that obviously captured her heart in some way, “your eyes will be opened and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”

The devastating effects of humanity’s perpetual pursuit of godlikeness is obvious all around us. But I’ve been pondering how easily Christians also fall for this temptation, and yet somehow we do it in a sort of “sanctified” or “Christian” way. Three examples . . .