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Blindness V
Read more: Blindness VThe Bible mentions two animals that talk. First is the serpent that talked Eve into eating the forbidden fruit. The second is an ass. After their escape from Egypt, the Israelites wandered in the desert for 40 years searching for the Promised Land. They had almost reached it, when they camped in the kingdom of…
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Spiritual Blindness IV
Read more: Spiritual Blindness IVAdam and Eve were blind to the difference between good and evil. What we observe, or look at, and what we see, or what we perceive, seem to be two different things. We certainly don’t see what God sees. What God sees seems to be light years away from what we can see (Isaiah 55).…
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Spiritual Blindness III
Read more: Spiritual Blindness IIIIn the garden of Eden, sight and vision were prominent themes in the story of the Fall of Man. God saw that all He had created was good, and He gave Adam and Eve vision as well. Then the Lord God formed man of dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath…
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Spiritual Blindness II
Read more: Spiritual Blindness IIIn the Book of Revelation, Jesus took the ostensibly rich Laodiceans to task for their blindness, in the same way Adam and Eve were tasked at the Fall: Because … you do not know that you are wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked, I advise you to buy from Me … white garments…
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The Fourth Woe: Spiritual Blindness
Read more: The Fourth Woe: Spiritual BlindnessThe purpose of a guide is to lead people through places they have not been before. The most important attribute for a guide is good vision. A blind guide would be useless and indeed dangerous. Concerning the Pharisees, Jesus told the disciples: “Let them alone; they are blind guides of the blind. And if a…
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Evangelism: A Greater and Lesser Commission?
Read more: Evangelism: A Greater and Lesser Commission?This is the Great Commission given by Jesus to the disciples: “All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I commanded you; and…

Daoism would agree, I think. Freedom comes with accepting the Dao—the Way, God. Struggling against it is not freedom and…