"We understand conflict because we experience conflict, right? But where does conflict come from? Why do we experience conflict in our lives? This helped me a great deal in accepting the idea of original sin and the birth of conflict. The rebellion against God explained why humans experienced conflict in their lives, and nobody knows of any explanation other than this... Without the Christian explanation of original sin, the seemingly silly story about Adam and Eve and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, there was no explanation of conflict. At all." - Donald Miller, Blue Like Jazz
"I wondered why it was that when people talked about the fall of man, about the Garden of Eden, they never talk about how people went around naked. If you ask me, the most obvious thing that happened after the Fall was that people started wearing all kinds of clothes. Just go to the store and look around, and you will see people wearing clothes. Everywhere you go you see people wearing clothes...I mean, evolution may explain how we came from apes, but it does nothing to explain why we wear clothes." - Donald Miller, Searching For God Knows What
It is important to not just be able to say what you believe, but to be able to know it well enough to defend it. If you can't defend it to someone else, how will you survive the Devil's temptations in the desert like Christ did? Christ had God's answer for every trick the Devil threw at Him.
"There is a vast and important difference between a Pauline creed and a Pauline life...Paul was a seeker and a finder and a seeker still. They seek and find and seek no more." - A. W. Tozer, Keys To The Deeper Life
Know what you believe inside and out. Keep asking questions. Keep seeking answers.
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