Third Kind

Leo Tolstoy believed there were two kinds of people who followed two very different methods of human activity. One uses their reason to learn what is good and what is bad, and they act according to this knowledge. The other kind act as they want to, and then they use their reason to prove that what they did was good and what they didn’t do was bad. That certainly is a true analysis, and I would hope to be counted in the first group. However, I believe there’s a third kind of person, a rare type, who participates in a special kind of human activity. This group is not opposed to reason, but does use something more profound and reliable to learn what is good and what is bad. The Christian looks to divine Scripture, and the abiding presence of God’s Holy Spirit, to both know and to do what is good, while doing their best to avoid what is bad.