Thought of the Day 12.10.08

If people are like gardens, there are basically three views of the human being:

In the first view, people’s gardens naturally grow only good fruit. Weeds come from corrupting outside influences, which can be stopped by properly structuring society.

In the second view, people’s gardens naturally grow both fruit and weeds, and people need to be trained how to properly cultivate their own gardens.

In the third view, people’s gardens naturally grow only different varieties of weeds, and the seeds for fruit must come from somewhere else.

Each view has Christian advocates, but if the first or second view is correct, then people don’t need a Savior, just better social structures or life skills. Only if the third view is correct does Jesus’s sacrifice on the Cross make sense, because it brought an entirely new kind of plant life into this world.