Christianity is a religion of seemingly impossible paradoxes, and the Christian life is a series of decisions made within a set of difficult, often excruciating tensions. The simplest paradoxes are the purely theological ones: Jesus is fully God and man; God is one essence in three persons; we are justified by faith alone but faith without works is dead; it is by grace but through faith that we are saved. Moving outwards to the practice of our faith, we continue to find vexing challenges, most of which one might describe as competing obligations towards different people.
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