What's the most evil action you can think of? What would you call a person who commits that action for profit and for an ideology that they don't even understand because they don't believe there's a supernatural source of that ideology?
The ancient wisdom. Salvation. You.
Whom we set our desires upon is more of a reflection of ourselves than of the object of our desire.
The Apostle John received something from the Lord Jesus that he shares with Christians in his first epistle. We are little children. John may be, in a sense, a sort of spiritual father to the church. This tenderness for the flock in his care is what he learned from God, and John shares it with the children of God.
It's not going to end well for them.
"So Paul stood in the midst of the Areopagus and said..."
Based on an actual conversation.
What you fail to notice may be dangerous. The Christian life isn't meant to be one of solitude.
Yet you do not know what your life will be like tomorrow. You are just a vapor that appears for a little while and then vanishes away. (James 4:14) Daniel chapter 10.
Every elder looks at the young and shakes their head. Every youngster looks at the elderly and shakes their head. Few look at themselves and shake their head.
