A Christian Reads the Tao te Ching
Join me in an unusual but deeply fulfilling journey as I work my way through the Tao te Ching, that ancient Chinese book of wisdom and spirituality that didn't draw me away from a Christ-centered faith, but actually helped me hold onto it.
A Christian Reads the Tao te Ching
The good, the bad, and the sinful (chapter 62)
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Corey Farr
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Episode 51
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In this episode, we look at chapter 62, which is one of the only chapters where Lao Tzu compares good and bad people and the ONLY chapter where he uses a word often translated as "sin". I'll start by talking about how radically countercultural and even offensive Jesus's teachings of enemy-love are in the Middle Eastern culture I work in, then we'll take a look at three aspects of this chapter:
- The Tao (and Christ) as treasure to the good and refuge to the bad
- Do not abandon a bad person (and what even IS a bad person?)
- Hopeful universalism - a great motivation to spread the love of Christ
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