Three Lessons by Joe Tamel
The well-known theologian, Karl Barth, once said that all Christians should live with a Bible in one hand and a newspaper in the other. Considering today’s technology, we might replace that newspaper with an ipod. The essential point remains. In taking Barth’s advice, we find ourselves standing in the middle of a contradiction. In one hand we are told that angels desire to be like us, but in the other hand we read of an existence that is hardly worthy of envy. With this image in mind, Tamel pursues some of the ways this paradox plays out, especially in the unique calling and place that mankind finds in God.