Love the Truth and Peace: Three Categories of Religious Indifference
The prophet Zechariah's closing exhortation—"Therefore love the truth and peace"—carries particular weight as nearly his final message to Israel. This admonition addressed the spiritual lethargy...
This is historical examples on commitment to divine truth and critique of religious indifference, drawing on Ezekiel 5:19.
The prophet Zechariah's closing exhortation—"Therefore love the truth and peace"—carries particular weight as nearly his final message to Israel. This admonition addressed the spiritual lethargy of post-exilic Judah and remains urgently applicable to baptized Christians today. Exell identifies three categories of those who fail to "love the truth." First are those with no care for religious truth whatsoever—those who treat inquiry into spiritual condition as optional rather than imperative, contrary to both natural piety and common sense.…
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