Jesus made it clear that this world is not what God intends it to be.

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It’s not about ‘sin’ - occasional acts of evil - but living short of what God intends. 
Civilisations have come and gone, all attempts to bring in a golden age of peace and prosperity.

These attempts oscillate between:

• setting up laws and institutions to keep people right (e.g. religion, communism, fascism). 

• setting individuals free to do the right thing (renaissance. liberalism, conservatism).

 

They have failed because of human greed, frailty and self-centredness.

Yet we keep on trying:

‘Evidence based’ intervention by government to make everyone prosperous, safe and happy. Witness attempts to keep everyone ‘safe’ from Covid-19. See my novel,

Time, Hens and the Universal Significance of Fiddle Music

and

Indulgence: you only live once, enjoy it; be all you can be; do what you want within the law. 
Such policies fail because for a good society you need good people, and we don’t know what we mean by ‘good’.

 
So, people are lost in the present age.

 
And yet

 
it is God’s world.