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Ani -they bnWi yam d\M*ei\ Hm ikrt ke touU tx>ueh {km-. 3^te efeu'ples rekkec/ tkse: -to toght them. ButuKenVeshua53toit,k was MU4 iispbsfj, 3>J sa uwc 5u r the little. Alire* -to LOvnd unto nn , W brbii tW : &>r cf suA is the kinoM #Eonym. Verily I say urb yoU Whosoever sKaU ncs receve Ac kifnA EroWm ^ a l # cHW, V sW ndt enter tWn. Ami He- t*>k l w uf -Ahis M$, put Ke Ws upoA -tW 3M blessed them,.

Ani ukeniheckie^ points arv scrbes saw the uxJef^ tninos fet Hed'd, and the dhWrcafcno in ti>e fii yaw. AnJ as humans aoe, -the lononc jor the uwweuf ruir6increaSn y greater gxperient' es- a bonj new Uyd^sfe a laroe wafer H atrip a fia&nal ^est ; a4 so otfK. In a uwvj, %mliar v is fci ^IW;{W etolJi ater iMe. ^BeeAhere dm tVatj sen it be re. ik Jesifffee loflfder remains wtn us JnA is anj cvr ieep-seafei intu Athat zm&m exists to satisfy that \m*o Is, \e SOUJW It's W M ; oyert me, tke txtferie ^K wat can reaH mw u$ that uwnir l


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the roai, a decision to make. De can respond as the cynic, and oweupon RopetewcludiM ftgt all sodiU tfgsaresmJy irrationa and unliable; we mayWa. The other

respisewhat we moht call the chldrens response o Mi & thedesire jor wow, ioh.icf is innate to U5, and(Jich is clearly observed even fryinfancy, is somethng that has been paced in us for areason- it points towardssomethng that is, infact, real. ,

5o, these are % tw> choices: what tk wr n wonalrst cync says, or>Wthe chikn beieve. Is reality dull and orey? Is k)


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realization that every ck^i to define or even recognize evl necessarily depenion the exgence $ an absolute standard-, and an absoute standard o^ W andevl is wisely what So many tAoW imcor nt ways. Iheljeufe thfe enfeloel {foe tre end us cgp Between the mnds ^ hwws, and that df aniimals:that we are made in nehvyms ima e, and the beasts are not. Beow (cite threeewples this diference.

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Humane appreciate beauty Jorits

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tavenever seen a cko staring with awe at the r*iaWy dj[tne ocean, or df a waterfallfcoarfa cf how breath-taking the vew is be/sts \ ^ t w seem h notice it-

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. . ise is, who is amused by antics am otter, and. uK2> is wbveAy the b&auty ofa Melody Further, wKake


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We think abstractly, and communicate suchtW^s in speech wntmo andother means, because: we areyy?ade in theimaoe Eohjywv who in3oHn 1;1 iscaltaj -the boos (Word ,Mes5a ^e,Thouwf Eohiym is notMerey- sonte nor-dt ctooS Im| >et5oni force, but rather a Someone who isse| f-awJe, whoknowsa^ thinks, and whocommunicates these thouohts. H .

II. .1. .Cxi.,,., iL- A..K l ^ .. .J,., iL-.... , ./.J.umans do all these thinos 3ii many ether thinos as wekhavedone SDsnce ettr earliest tte?As % hack 3s record fs&rv or regains certain thinos out

proper prorations, "and bymnimfcino other thimo aeadefe ef c seeps townkeorexpan atoay thegap y ween Wnskino at cursed inthe bro^dayight" proper portion, thedissimilarisclear. AmdReieve the best explanation w this immense Merenthe soent i ter rain, and bnWautuMn [eaves, bW sVes a^ tall mounfens, riversand foresjs, butterflies M kifens and snow Ute aM strawberries an f

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-fnendships and Soy and WyW mcad>s anj the iwfcll ^ wood and t k soundof crvdxb and children andswans and and danctno and flowers and pea-

fathers and sunses and labs and. ^uU have survved in a world lex stul^ tf wthvendor. I t is m/ contention that our Ceator beyond beno $eat and Wse and imtnifeW i h powerful, is eVery bit as much beawtfyl and majesfL gentle W bfld theype ror wW we can eel a sort CA: ho/ Nsmesvness the W d erscrv whcW i f

Je ooud somehow 3ust spend a day with Eokiym, we woud ho doub be astinctime drew to a close,* Del, can i spd iewertow with feu, oo? 1

If: males Much me sense, to rye to heifer that aesthetic talents and poeticinspiration are gi ts a


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presses. It s one of {Hose posit ws *tKa?t cannot be proven absoutey true or alse;i>ut i M bother much wv4K -frVmo to disprove this eti


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The second is thai humanity has fallen short cn;this Moral pM . In theabsence ô ether Qe points, the statement that "something is thematter wth hwvaniiy smply wakes nosense.

This assessment & thehuman cWtion correates wel|unth amknttraditions *frc*n; J. around the world. 5uch traditions Xt^t, o course, butthey apparently preserve a very distant, Joooy menwy $\ world knder in itsearliest doys o a-time when wt hadsomcthino %\ anjdear, that hassomehow bee Alost, m hch mê upEohiym 5 naturesuch as ustice, kndness, hmesty, and % forth. *55

conversey is whatever is not inauo ce Uth such principlese.o. 7 \ n\ ukk.e/ nyicedishonesty etc.and / ot the ejects or consequences o thedepartures tomthisstand

arddwWness. As OT whyevl evsts, it isunderstood as thedirect andindirect resultso humanty aW -free wll. Evil is an act ensor a result* , reeotino theauthority cf theoood Eohiym. Apparently, our Ceator beieves that a unverse inidnch evlis possbe would still be better than a unverse where êe wll, and love, andmeaninreationships are notpossbe.

Ever snce genesis 3, when humans \ irst ceoan to rebe against E&hyrtsauthority, our race hasbeen in asteady, morbid .spiral away frorn our /Hater. Eohiyhas not a W W us,however; He isstill caling andknockng. /Reveations S-ltyU^^ st that Mos us dkt pay anyatent\ 6n.lms is how i thereationship S{ thewider d\ ,arv (he borrow cjfhumanty. Lije is beautiful, liê istragic.The history d{ theworld is a beautiful traoedy, zsAM famine story abut anEohiym i^hoioves, andpeople who runaway Ue stories are oêntragic.

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nata sense o the world. 1 smply coud not opiate without that.As wel, i W -that) cannot function without takino steps o &ith. 1 have

ever seen Sberia, nor even the Asvan mainand; hut i fid atracbed to the m;Kat all the peope who speak o havng been ^ such paces and all the publishers mapsy atlases, areeHno the truth. Aw4t iwe attracted, in fact, to this idea than hl k. wlusion that its all ust one oreat b hoax. 1 beieve, by a step e aith, what

ttaln >S t4e oonneotion between reason and ^fth Very ktfle can he ptovgabsoutey true; and ao the principle use c looc is to try k> cletef mne what is most>rtha% W- And prcpe? W is ne swplya UyJ lp info the dark; i t is ratherthe sbep we take to beieve thinos that M . cannot prove, or have not yet proven, ahso-utev true, but neverthebs seem k> us mos probacy true ba3fe on the evdence we havecitable. Is the water comng &d o the kitchen tap this mornno se k dtint? Dd

Onsfan Churchill reaty exsts Ace the mom met my true bioooieal p aik??ome thinos we {2me>{ prove, and ether thinos we have never bothered ve and

he sum all this is that the ves" maiority (Jfw toe beieve conssts vews VeU by>reater or smaler live for, somethng to beieve in that inspires our \ r >^-;ion. Nether %e hope3, nor meannoess f* ts,. will do.

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believe, is the one that will best meet the needs oV-fk huan spirit. &/i mean tbaf all o the questions are responded to, withoutany cff licM beno dfsmssed as irrelevant 5 t W each is answered plausibly, and that the set df Answers iecnsistent in that cne answer does ^ cMfM another, further; an adwe bdisystem mj t ronjy Cohere with reality, in the sense t\d\{ is capable $ ofvno xrWi


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o^emjstnces pur fallen world yelds ptarty rnans issintM orioinally brouoht death i to% waUj W is s i n - breaking the law orfBAt w that 3 \l resu/ f inan

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ultimate death, an eternal punishment, TVs is not pbsant news, hd it is reality. To4eny rt, ue must hold efther tW no mora law e&ts /whch leads to abur lrfie thatour actions do not bfino conse enees /whch is inherent), that humans are in acflivns e>ur,Wy lives y &t Creator (dueh is non ftse\ r that a holy lovlio Eohiym\ in the ^udeo-cVstian Scriptures ft 7 _New ^


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our hearts would not be even one vacK coser to befog won. U)e Would be shcwno afe--tion riches rather than ^ r Eohiym None & m b what Eohiym intend $seated us to have a reationship with us, one in which loefely choose to love 0ohjym, j i5t as He Wss us. This 5c?fi o\ p cannot be either coecS or bwM.

5e> Eohiyvfs solution was i> actually ecme in 3n?ono us, as one


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I can appreciate the concern o {hose who donate to hep the sfcwirttpoor in the sums B\ However i spontan&usly feel More respeet for-the individual who moves to the sums ^ cdcutta, to live those peope wvey to us throughtartno our punfehW


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W US- (Rowans S'b'ty) eohua said that layng down your ii e for your fiend kthe greatest love there is (3chn 15-5); 34 then He went to surrender fes lifeôrus. (ktatians ^5 ^ frany case, the cîm cf the fcit^the dwr\love story o eted in the 3ndeo-Christian Scriptures: Bohiym #me to earth inPerson, to suffer wi{hus in our tragedy, to ay wth usanj ooôrtusfo feke

our punishment for us by dyino in our place, and tosave

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all the ream ofmonotheism, such caims we never been made for any other conception of ourCreator. Veskua is the Bohiym who loves us most.. 11 0

pf course, the story doesn t merely ed in traWy The Christen Ive feternal w is hosed on >ha happened next : tV Resurrection. Veshua rwifesWHs ziAwfy over


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.ray- Pny Kum>v are tfy&k the nlosf spiting aets oompssion, andyef at;Ke same time, why ue are oudty ef all eJ the worldo locrsf atroo-fres. Ik. &pe l>itfS P workii'ig defmition' fer Iboh oood 3nd evil, whle alio eypUnno 4y bc3i geodnd evnex&t And athough i t furni es a sound bsis for undersfandino so many pfo--cM*>d > d even pradojuod ^estians, the Wsio eomeepts of the 4osfel arc 50 smple;heven ycu ohldreK\ n f ^ l y understand i t Fnally, i f provides Wh Uebntf)nd UWer-he rational search, f n wha{ 15 hue, and rhe ^ r t ^ l t lonowo f*oonder tf a story, come Wfk- in the M f 5 ipture5 as a true 5ty. tyly S%mi uU W autWd a messbe wKK ineefs t k deepes ne

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