Good Book Friday!
Below is a quote from Orthodoxy by GK Chesterton. It’s an excellent argument for the Christian faith with humor throughout to lighten the reading. The quote below helps to correct our culture’s difficulty in calling sin sin.
“[The ancient masters of religion] began with the fact of sin--a fact as practical as potatoes. Whether or no man could be washed in miraculous waters, there was no doubt at any rate that he wanted washing. But certain religious leaders in London, not mere materialists, have begun in our day not to deny the highly disputable water, but to deny the indisputable dirt. Certain new theologians dispute original sin, which is the only part of Christian theology which can really be proved. Some followers of the Reverend R.J.Campbell, in their almost too fastidious spirituality, admit divine sinlessness, which they cannot see even in their dreams. But they essentially deny human sin, which they can see in the street. The strongest saints and the strongest sceptics alike took positive evil as the starting-point of their argument. If it be true (as it certainly is) that a man can feel exquisite happiness in skinning a cat, then the religious philosopher can only draw one of two deductions. He must either deny the existence of God, as all atheists do; or he must deny the present union between God and man, as all Christians do. The new theologians seem to think it a highly rationalistic solution to deny the cat.”
Prayer prompt: Lord, please give us the light of Your word to see through the darkness of our world.
Daily Reading: Genesis 41, Psalm 41, Judges 17 (Click or tap the Verses to read them on your device)
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