Addict
In Jesus and the Envoys’ time, slavery was everywhere and they used it, and its related customs, laws, and emancipation, as a central image — probably the central image — of their teaching. Nowadays we have no slavery and very little idea of it. What could serve as a nowadays analogous image in our teaching? As I puzzle this out, as I look around me, my mind turns more and more to — addiction …
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Exoristos
Porter Doran
Iannes
Epiktetos
Anonymous
I have thought so much upon this but the only query that remains coherent in my head at this moment is instead a tangent: Will the teaching that is effectual to further souls’ adoption by God be similar to a teaching that is effectual to relieve addiction?
I am such a poor writer.