Tag: Law
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A Problem From the Garden
(2-minute read) By the time I was an adult, I knew something was wrong with life. I was tired of people treating me like a child, telling me what to do, and I expected to do what I wanted. There were two significant trees in the Garden of Eden. Mankind chose the Tree of the…
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The Law
(2-minute read) When I was very young, my spiritual life was primarily guilt. After God created the earth, he established commandments for man to follow. I thought to keep things in order, anyone who disobeyed these laws was punished. It wasn’t personal; it was universal, and we were all in the same boat. Religion mainly…
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Picking Up Stones
(3-minute read) I heard some friends saying, “Hate the sin but love the person,” when talking about someone who had done something wrong. I thought it sounded spiritual and then used the expression one day when someone was caught stealing. I immediately felt the displeasure of the Lord. I recoiled, “What? It’s a good expression.…
