Well, everyone knows he's not stupid. Wish I were that bright. But just being a candle in the night, I have to say that faith in the mind is eighteen inches away from salvation. For too many, this distance is just too far to risk the leap.
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18 inches and 180 degrees!
Some suggest that idolatry is the principle sin, that pride is its quintessence, or just a specific sort of idolatry. Certainly the temptations to idolatry and pride are grave among the intellectuals.
My own “story” pretty much comes down to suddenly realizing that all this “stuff” I knew and thought and wrote was about ME! I knew IHS came to save sinners. I knew I was a sinner. I didn’t complete the syllogism. Until one day, by grace, I did. He came to save THIS sinner!
Took my breath away — and then gave me new breath. Summer of 1971. Changed my life! And I should thank Him more often.