MAN’S RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD

When a man is choosing how to act in any given situation, he has to decide whether to acknowledge death, or whether to ignore death. If he decides to acknowledge death, then he has to decide whether to submit to it, or defy it. Death, if I may personify death, would like to be in a position to compel men either to submit or defy; then death would win both ways, and either impose servile slavery, or brief pathetic ineffectual resistance. What death cannot stand is to be ignored, because then even if a man does die, death wins no victory, which is won or lost only in the minds of men. This is the fundamental choice that a man has to make as regards the actions of his life; whether to accept the world as it is, and that includes death; or whether to refuse to accept anything at face value, not even death, and to say instead, “Life is potential, almost anything is possible, provided you have the faith to be creative”. For instance, it is useless making plans for persuading witnesses to tell stupid obvious lies in the witness box of their own free will, unless you know how you propose to use those lies to affect the result of the case; one has by faith to see the potential victory in one's mind, before one can think of a plan that is any good. Alternatively, one has to rely on conventional tactics of attack and defence. One…