The Box Top To Life's Puzzle Summary
Pride Paves Way for the Global Acceptance of Falsehood, Says Christian Writer
World leaders and professionals reject common answers to life’s tough questions and instead fabricate their own stories.
When it comes to dealing with life’s questions, Christian writer Marcus Hurst urges everyone to “maintain an open mind to the truth.” However, he sees a problem with people who, due to their pride and self-confidence, consider their own opinion to be of higher value than the truth. In his book The Box Top to Life's Puzzle: Explanations for the Mystery of Life (Toplink Publishing, 2017), Hurst explains how pride has led certain people to invent lies and embrace falsehood.
For Hurst, to embrace the truth is to stand “on the ground of humility.” There are many explanations to life’s tough questions, which make it difficult for people to determine the truth. Proud people attempt to explain away every fact they do not want to face, thus leaving behind “a very distorted image of life and its values.” One such distortion is the theory of evolution, which …show more content…
There is no moral code to observe when believing in the theory, which not only causes people to lose their respect for the truth but also reduces humans to the same moral level as that of animals.
The Box Top to Life's Puzzle is Hurst’s response to society’s growing lack of belief in supernatural authorities and rejection of moral obligations. The author reminds his readers that truth stands, whether they believe or not and urges them to keep an open mind or else we get “stuck in a ditch far from the truth.” “Everybody makes mistakes,” the author says, “but it takes a strength of character to admit them and pursue the correct alternative.”
Get Hurst’s enlightening and thought-provoking book at Amazon and
World leaders and professionals reject common answers to life’s tough questions and instead fabricate their own stories.
When it comes to dealing with life’s questions, Christian writer Marcus Hurst urges everyone to “maintain an open mind to the truth.” However, he sees a problem with people who, due to their pride and self-confidence, consider their own opinion to be of higher value than the truth. In his book The Box Top to Life's Puzzle: Explanations for the Mystery of Life (Toplink Publishing, 2017), Hurst explains how pride has led certain people to invent lies and embrace falsehood.
For Hurst, to embrace the truth is to stand “on the ground of humility.” There are many explanations to life’s tough questions, which make it difficult for people to determine the truth. Proud people attempt to explain away every fact they do not want to face, thus leaving behind “a very distorted image of life and its values.” One such distortion is the theory of evolution, which …show more content…
There is no moral code to observe when believing in the theory, which not only causes people to lose their respect for the truth but also reduces humans to the same moral level as that of animals.
The Box Top to Life's Puzzle is Hurst’s response to society’s growing lack of belief in supernatural authorities and rejection of moral obligations. The author reminds his readers that truth stands, whether they believe or not and urges them to keep an open mind or else we get “stuck in a ditch far from the truth.” “Everybody makes mistakes,” the author says, “but it takes a strength of character to admit them and pursue the correct alternative.”
Get Hurst’s enlightening and thought-provoking book at Amazon and