Human Life Straddles Two Realities
Human beings were created in the image of God. Classical philosophers stated that the human ability to reason was the key to understanding what that meant. After hundreds of years of searching the bounds of reason, philosophers became frustrated. Following reason alone did not produce the solutions they sought. As a result, during the 17th century some philosophers in the West started to emphasize emotion. Our intellectual and political elites have walked us down this other path for another couple of hundred years. Society in the 21 Century has reached the end of that journey. It has lead us to a place of confusion, division, and despair. I propose that the problem is both efforts considered only one aspect of the human soul and neglected the other. God demonstrates both reason and emotion in the Bible. As His image, both constitute our substance. We live simultaneously in two worlds, the objective and subjective. Therefore, in order to make right decisions, come to accur