"Ideas have consequences." -- Richard Weaver
Everything is going somewhere and sooner or later it's going to get there. Ideas take us places. They aren't meaningless abstract thoughts that come from nowhere and amount to nothing. Ideas come either from above or from below and both are pulling for their team.
James 3:14-17
If you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast and be false to the truth. This is not the wisdom that comes down from above, but is earthly, unspiritual, demonic. For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there will be disorder and every vile practice. But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and sincere.
Our theology comes out our fingertips. What we think about anything is observed in everything we say or do. Ideas are catalysts. They urge things in a certain direction. They can be resisted, but it requires intention. Inattention to your thought life produces a life you never thought of.
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