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The Chibi News Daily Reflection
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Hi, my name's Andrew Latimer. I'm a Church of England minister at Grace Church in Greenwich
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Do you ever wonder whether human beings are basically good or basically bad
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And if you had to devise an experiment to try and settle this question once and for all, how would we do it
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well how about this suppose that into this world was sent the essence of goodness and beauty and
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truth and then we watch and we observe how do human beings respond to ultimate goodness ultimate
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truth the bible says that's precisely what God has done in Jesus John's gospel says this this is
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the verdict light has come into the world Jesus but people love darkness instead of light because
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their deeds were evil. It's saying that spiritually speaking we're more like creepy crawlies than we
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are like moths. Do you remember moths fly towards the lamp but when you lift the stone the creepy
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crawlies run away from the light. And the verse says that when the light came, Jesus, we loved the
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darkness rather than the light. When the maker came into our world what did we do? We murdered him
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We crucified our creator. And I guess by itself, this would be a pretty depressing thought
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you know, shining the spotlight on what humanity is really like. Except the whole point of shining the spotlight is to wake us up
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so that we can take hold of this rescue that's on offer
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Because as soon as we're realistic about our problem, we can start to appreciate the wonderful solution that's available
