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Human nature begins with the potential for honesty (“upright” is literally “straight”), but people pervert this potential by devising devious calculations, like wily accountants juggling figures in their books.
Robert Alter • The Hebrew Bible
society
Leo Nasskau • 2 cards
jewish
Lucifer/ Satan
Brittany • 2 cards
confusion
Emma Sidwell • 1 card
Time and again, he says, he finds himself wanting to do good but instead doing evil. His sense of sinfulness is overpowering. This leads him to the following argument: The law—that is, the Torah—creates the desire to sin, and sin itself is a kind of death. But sin itself was brought into the world by Adam, who ate from the Tree of Knowledge and was
... See moreJonathan Sacks • A Letter in the Scroll: Understanding Our Jewish Identity and Exploring the Legacy of the World's Oldest Religion
This is why when the devil comes to Eve in the Garden, he doesn’t come with a stick but with an idea. Because ideas and the idea systems of fallen society are the primary trade of the evil one. They cause us to believe lies.
John Mark Comer • Practicing the Way: Be with Jesus. Become like him. Do as he did.
Adam ate the apple, and our teeth still ache. —Hungarian proverb
David Shields • How We Got Here: Melville Plus Nietzsche Divided by the Square Root of (Allan) Bloom Times Žižek (Squared) Equals Bannon
