Sunday, November 9, 2008

The pop culture of today, even though it teaches tolerance, i believe it breeds intolerance and disappointment. Believing that person is innately good by birth and tolerance do not go together. they Breed two different thoughts that cannot co-exist. How many times have you heard, " i am just looking for a good man, woman, or role model."? We want to believe we live in a normal world with normal people. Reality is we live in a broken world filled with sinful people. If we believe a person is good by nature, that means either their exterior is a representation of their essence, or their exterior is not a permanent state, rather a stage. Imagine the disappointment when you find that you care about is corrupt in their essence? Also, if we are good by nature, then we are better than a person who lives a corrupt life. On the other side of the spectrum, if you know a person is corrupt by nature, you will be more tolerant to a person who is struggling in life because we expect a person to fail often, due to our sin nature. This makes us more prone to forgive, more lively to love the struggling, and this humbles us because we are no better. To end, with our sin nature, we are in desperate need of Christ's saving work. We are no better than anyone else and we would be as torn as they are without Christ.

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