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G. K. Chesterton once imagined what an alien—“a mathematical creature from the moon”—might deduce if it were to analyze the human body. It would immediately conclude that man is essentially a mirror of himself. He has two eyes, two arms, two legs, and so on. Even in dissection, the alien would discover twin lobes of the brain. But just when it was ready to set down as law that man has everything in duplicate, it would find a heart on the left, but none on the right. “Just where he most felt right, he would be wrong.” Chesterton’s point is that truth is often “illogical”—that reality demands complexity if we are to interpret it properly.
This is even more so when it comes to understanding the truths of the Christian faith and what it means to live them out. At the heart of Christian doctrine is the greatest contradiction of all: Through weakness and death, Christ secured complete victory over his enemies and paved the way for eternal life
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