#egovsspirit

People read the letters to the Corinthians and get lost in the details. They treat them like a church administration manual: how to handle lawsuits, what to do about speaking in tongues, rules for marriage,

Spiritual field guide, a way to tell the tree by its fruit. This is the only diagnostic tool that matters, because the ego is a master of disguise. It can quote scripture, it can perform miracles, it can

Men get into useless debates about whether the Book of Wisdom is "scripture" or not because some groups of men put it in their Bibles and others didn't. This is the ego arguing over the brand

Men read the Book of Psalms and think they have found God's permission slip to be emotional. They see the anger, the despair, the cries for vengeance, and they feel validated in their own emotional turmoil.