say I am a bit sluggish this morning, it is a bit daft to ask if I have sludge in my blood as you might expect to find in a slow-moving river. You just rule out those kinds of physiological questions when you use the metaphor. You might ask if the sluggishness comes every day or in phases, but not if someone opened a factory waste pipe by mistake. These are all questions that Christians try to answer. Creation? A good God. Morality? The will of that God. Consciousness? Being made in the image of
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