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Two sisters. Actually, I have three. The youngest is close to my age and we have similar views on things. But the older two are from two different camps. They both are shining examples of our parents’ generous spirit and I am the benefactor of their kind hearts. But they come from two different planets even though they share many of the same values.
One believes most anything she hears and the other believes nothing she hears. Their perception of the truth is determined by how much respect they have for the person speaking. And therein lies the rub. Both claim to be Christian. My older sister will tend to believe anything someone says as long as they say they are a Christian. The internet is plagued by people that “hear from God” and so it becomes very easy to be duped into spending money on garbage advice. Sorting through it all isn’t done; it’s just all accepted.
My other sister mistrusts everything that Christians say. Because she lives with an atheist who doesn’t allow dissenting views in his home, she has succumbed to the continual indoctrination of leftist media and now she can’t stand opposing views. She is of a socialist bent and believes everything she hears as long as it’s from the government or “real” news media. As the government and media are very vocal opponents of Christianity and the moral values it supports, it’s hard to fathom why she is so adamant that her siblings are liars at worst and stupid at best. Anything we say has to be checked on Snopes (a leftist site), or Googled to see if what we’re saying is accurate (it never is).
I think it comes down to belief and a lack of understanding the Word of God. I think we all tend to read the parts of the Bible we like. Some things about God are hard to understand. Actually, they are annoying to us. Animal sacrifice, slaughtering thousands of your opponents, sending people to hell; it’s at best unsettling. We question a God that isn’t a social justice warrior like so many in and out of the Church are.
We are told His ways are above our ways. It’s like we don’t have the capacity to know why God does what He does and thinks what He thinks. I mean, we’re pretty good, aren’t we?
In the garden of Eden there were lots of trees, but only two they couldn’t eat of, the tree of the knowledge of good and evil and the tree of life. They ate of the first tree and sin entered the world. I think we don’t understand how terrible sin is and how unredeemable sinners are on their own. They were driven out of the garden so they couldn’t access the tree of life and live forever. None of this we totally comprehend. Eating of this one tree gives the knowledge of good and evil and eating of the other would give us the ability to live forever in that sinful state. Complex, unimaginable God thoughts.
It’s interesting that before sin entered the world Adam and Eve didn’t know they were naked. Small children are like that. It’s just hard to keep clothes on them sometimes. They’re in that innocent stage. It isn’t until they’re older and taste of the sin laden tree that things change. The world if you let it can burden us with sin so our best option is to protect them from the hazing as long as possible.
I’ve been thinking of late that the best way to deal with people whether they are three or seventy years old is to do more loving than correcting. It’s love that covers sin; we all need to be covered.