The final significant question is not whether this human verdict or that—this physician's diagnosis, that lawyer's opinion, this partner's decision—is right or wrong, sensible or foolish, just or unjust.
Some of his own people, even those who had believed in him, were outraged when Christ Jesus told them, "If a man keep my saying, he shall never see death.
That Spirit, or God, is substance—and the only substance, at that —may seem to many people not unlike claiming that fresh air is actually reinforced concrete.