The Dividing Line

di Cody Rutscher (Autore)

Cody Rutscher, 2026

Why did a message born in Judea fail to take hold among most of its own people — yet sweep across the Roman world and reshape history? And why do faiths born oceans apart keep circling the same truths about the ego, suffering, and the good? *The Dividing Line* is a thoughtful journey through three questions that most books keep separate: the inner question of the ego and where we draw the moral line in our own lives; the historical question of why Christianity did not catch within Judaism but spread like wildfire among the Gentiles; and the great comparative question of why Judaism, Christianity, and even Hinduism share such deep moral and spiritual intuitions — and what that overlap tells us about whether there are universal truths at all. Written from a Christian vantage point but engaging history and other faiths honestly, this book argues a bold and ancient thesis: that there is a moral law "written on the heart" of every human being, that this is why cultures and religions independently arrive at overlapping truths — and that these truths are discovered, not invented, and therefore cannot finally be bent to our convenience, however hard we try. Along the way it explores: - The ego as the root distortion of the human heart, and how it bends our sense of right and wrong - The world Jesus entered, and the honest reasons his message divided his own people - Why the faith spread so rapidly across the ancient world - The real similarities — and the real differences — among the great faiths - Whether universal truths exist, and whether they can be fixed or bent - How to draw the line in your own life, with conviction and humility, in a pluralistic world This is a book for the thoughtful believer and the honest seeker alike — for anyone who has wondered whether the deepest things are merely cultural, or whether some truths are simply true.

• Autore: Cody Rutscher
• Anno edizione: 2026
• Editore: Cody Rutscher
• Formato: EPUB3 con DRMFREE
• Lingua: Inglese
• Compatibilità: Tutti i dispositivi (eccetto Kindle)
• Layout: Reflowable
• EAN: 9798237702422