Replacement Fillers (Gen 29:16-35)
Replacement Fillers (Genesis 29:16-35) Being Human Series Collin Leong. 16/6/2017 1. Introduction Singapore has made the "5 'C's" world famous. I read with amusement to read this in Wikipedia: "Five Cs of Singapore" namely, [C]ash, [C]ar, [C]redit card, [C]ondominium and [C]ountry club membership." We have been stereo-typed as a people pursuing materialism in an "effort to impress others." But to be fair, I think this is a general description of most of the human kind, regardless of which nationality you are. What is the cause of man's incessant drive to strive for security, significance and satisfaction in material things and human praise, to the extent that all spiritual and moral bounds are pushed aside? We recall in our study of Genesis 3, where Adam and Eve chose to decide for themselves what is right and what is wrong by taking the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil. Man learned to be "independent" and drifted away ...