Make yourself safe. Make yourself a name. Make yourself eternal.
These three are the drivers behind much of what we humans do, according to the story that the Hebrew Bible tells about the development of human civilization. These are what we, as a species, have treated as our telos, our purpose.
They are not what God has made us for. But the tricky thing is that they’re not entirely unrelated either. Here’s what God said about our purpose, when he first made us.
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