The human condition

 Where we are now.

The human condition, according to The Apostle (2 Timothy 3).*

We are “narcissistic, covetous, arrogant, proud, blasphemous, disobedient, ungrateful, criminal, heartless, faithless, slanderous, lustful, merciless, unkind, treacherous, pig-headed, puffed-up.” We love earthly pleasures more than we love God: How could we not if our women are silly with lust, and leading men resist the truth because they love folly more?

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“The problem is,” Roz said, brows knitted, looking over my shoulder again.
“The problem is, you more than half believe this. You are a disciple of the apostle.”
     “No,” I said. “You don’t really think that.” I turned to look at her.
     She shook her head, but whether to say, “No, I don't think that” or to say “Maybe unwillingly, but” or to say “Oh, Ted! (Poor Ted.**)” I wasn’t sure.

08.10.21

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 * Please, I don’t want to hear the argument that Paul (of Romans, the letters to the Corinthians, Philippians, Galatians, Philemon, et al.) didn’t write this. So, he didn’t. The Apostle sure as hell did! Illustration: “Dutch Oven.”

** Poor, misguided Ted!

   Illustration: the Greek and the Latin from the New Students’ New Testament Workbook (Collegeville, MN, 1962).