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Confrontation with suffering does not lead to compassion
Confrontation with human suffering does not lead to compassion. It leads to anger, numbness, irritation, and rejection, because we don’t know how to deal with it all. It is too much. It is a heavy burden–more than we can carry… A burden becomes a heavy burden when it doesn’t feel connected to anything else. It is a burden that we have to carry by ourselves and is not shared. It is not part of anything larger.…
Genetic repair in the new creation
What if the righting of the world in Jesus' return is related to genetic repair? If present in our DNA are the fragments of our ancestors, and some ancestors enjoy features which we have since lost, what would humanity be like if all or most positive features were transfused into a single body? What if a human had the smell of a bloodhound, the hearing of a dolphin, and the vision of an octopus?…
Why was Jesus angry at the Pharisees?
What if Jesus' anger at religious authorities was not primarily that they were teaching false information, but that the outcome of their flawed teaching was an unjust society? What if Jesus cared more about the shape of society than theological accuracy, but recognized that one flows into the other?