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Jesus can bless you with gifts, yet become displeased with you

Oghenovo Obrimah, PhD
8 min readFeb 22, 2020

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Suppose a father senses an evil streak in one of his sons. Suppose this evil streak embeds lack of regard for the father in the heart. In presence of cognizance of dependence on the father for sustenance, however, there is arrival at a forced respect for the father, forced respect of which the father is aware.

While the hypothesized son has an evil streak, said streak has yet to manifest in actions, is, at this point, merely inferred.

Having recognized presence of the evil streak in his son, suppose the father refuses to invest in said son, only invests in all of his other sons. In presence of such a decision, there is not any evidence that the father loves his son, with outcome an independent and objective observer safely can assert that it is not impossible the son resents the father precisely because the father refuses to love. In presence of highlighted snafu, we arrive at the inference that, to an independent and objective observer, with the son yet to engage in any evil actions, only the father appears to be evil. The father then cannot be adduced to be more righteous than his son.

When a father is unloving towards a son or daughter who seems to have a bent…

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Oghenovo Obrimah, PhD
Oghenovo Obrimah, PhD

Written by Oghenovo Obrimah, PhD

Educator and Researcher, Believer in Spirituality, Life is serious business, but we all are pilgrims so I write about important stuff with empathy and ethos

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