God makes the wisdom of the world look foolish. Some obvious examples of that worldly wisdom could be the internet – conceived to empower and enlighten the world but overwhelmed with pornography and scams; antibiotics designed to overcome disease used to such excess that they’re promoting superbugs; painkilling drugs turned into mind-numbing thrills; military-grade weapons made available to not much more than children … [To read more, click on title]
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Bread of Heaven
Contemplating Jesus’s self-description as “the bread of life”, or “the bread which comes down from heaven”, is a daunting business … After all, bread is bread, right? What earthly thing could be more basic and simple? What else is there to understand? Nothing. Because understanding is not the issue … [To read more, click on title]
The Bread of Life
…. how to get beyond the temporal solutions to open the way to the eternal offer? The answer comes, “that they must believe in the one God has sent”. They must have faith in what he says and in what he shows himself to be. That is the work God wants of them – Belief.
Jesus says, “The truth of the matter is you want me because I fed you, not because you believe in me!” He is telling them they are making a profound mistake, and he is bringing to them a new way of thinking and of being: to realise that life is more than eating!
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