One of the striking things about reading G.K. Chesterton's book "Orthodoxy" is how many times he says the truth of some matter is precisely the opposite of how the secular world views it.
He will take a statement made by some unbeliever and show how things are actually the opposite from the way the person has described them.
I have found an interesting pattern in life in that the truth has this odd quality of being backward from what you might expect.
Here are some examples that I find interesting:
1.) In Christianity if you gain everything you really lose everything.
2.) A sinless man died for sinners.
3.) God is 3 and 1 at the same time.
4.) To be exalted you have to be humbled.
5.) If you give to people who can't pay you back- you will increase.
6.) 90% of your income is worth more than 100%.
7.) God chooses the weak and foolish to overcome the strong and wise.
8.) God will leave 99 sheep to save 1.
9.) You must die to live.
10.) The existence of God is so obvious from the intricate design found in nature - yet he is invisible.
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