“When you can assume that your audience holds the same beliefs you do, you can relax and use more normal means of talking to it; when you have to assume that it does not, then you have to make your vision apparent by shock — to the hard of hearing you shout, and for the almost-blind you draw large and startling figures.”
― Flannery O’Connor, Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose
Years ago, Biden talks about how great Putin is...
https://rumble.com/vvo8xk-2001....-biden-compliments-p
God is Holy and therefore doesn’t decree or govern evil but judges evil !
The reason that God allowed free-will for man, and therefore the possibility (not inevitability) of sin/evil is because love can only flourish in an environment of freedom.
It’s true that addictions can feel good, but doing the right thing also feels good, in fact the Bible keeps making the case that doing good actually feels better and is of course healthier too in every way.
… your law is my delight … Psalm 119:174
The law of the Lord is perfect, reviving the soul; the testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple; the precepts of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart; the commandment of the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes; the fear of the Lord is clean, enduring forever; the rules of the Lord are true, and righteous altogether. More to be desired are they than gold, even much fine gold; sweeter also than honey and drippings of the honeycomb. Moreover, by them is your servant warned; in keeping them there is great reward.
Psalm 19:7-11
You make known to me the path of life; in your presence there is fullness of joy;
at your right hand are pleasures forevermore.
Psalms 16:11
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