2:12–16, it ought to be clear that we are here in touch with one of the key aims of the letter. He is not, again, simply talking about “how to live as good Christians”; he is talking about how to work out what it means to live as a follower of Jesus Christ in a world where there are many things that are good and many things that are not. They are neither to reject everything in the surrounding world nor to embrace everything. They need to develop a keen sense of discrimination. If this set of questions
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