Considering answers to those faith-questions we all ask…
Category: Philosophy
How does a couple stay "in love"? How can they stay together? My parents were married for sixty-five years before my dad passed into the next world. As their son I observed their relationship or lack of it for decades, often with horror, disgust or a sinking heart. What I'm about to share is not my opinion only but the shared observation of several family members, male and female: we all saw the same things.
Anyone genuinely interesting in questioning the widespread view that humanity evolved from nothing via rock, bacteria, fish, lemur-like creatures and ape-like creatures can find a wealth of material to the contrary, produced by highly qualified and intelligent people. I here summarize a YouTube video titled, "Harvard Trained Biologist Wrecks Evolution and Billions of Years".
The urge to blame has reached epidemic proportions in the Western world, and I'm probably infected as much as anyone. In a world where I think I'm a good person and right about everything someone else is always wrong - it isn't my fault.
I first shared these song lyrics about ten years ago, but actually the song was written over forty years ago - evidence that some things just don't change.
My title may strike some as expressing an un-Christian sentiment. Surely, Christians should like everyone, shouldn't they? What does it mean to "like" a person anyway? I would say that in loving we don't have to like everything people do or say or think. We don't have to like that which is evil or that which offends the Spirit within us. We don't have to smile at something we're convinced is wrong or which we have no affinity for. We have the dignity and right to have our own views, tastes and preferences. If I say I don't like your music I'm not committing a sin. However, we are required and commanded to love.
Fuel for Faith, Food for Thought 