Sunday, February 10, 2008

If one knows not truth, but ends up telling truth though his heart sought to lie, is it not counted a lie? If one is misinformed and tells a falsehood thinking it to be a truth, is he not yet counted with the pure in heart? If one makes the righteous statement, "I love God," yet in his heart he has not renounced unrighteousness and cleaved to the Good, is he not a liar? Though he might suppose that since the statement is Christian, "and therefore good," is he not still a representative of the infadels at heart? Then again, if a person says, "I do not love God. Look at me: how could I?" and in his honesty rather the opposite is true, is he not still a man after God's own heart? Consider the prayers of the publican and the pharisee.

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