The Difference Between Duality and Dualism

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We just can't know the why all the time. And sometimes that conversation is distracting from actually dealing with the problems at hand. But this is a topic i give to a lot my students and in churches, cause i think for me it's been so helpful as talking about the difference between duality and dualism. The first step is you take two things, is a distortion of the duality, and you make a too firm a distinction between body and soul. Their distinction, but they belong together, and they influence each other.

In a life filled with suffering, is a good life truly possible? In this episode of White Horse Inn, Eric Landry, Justin Holcomb, and Bob Hiller ask the hard questions about sin, suffering, and real life. Just because this life can be hard doesn’t mean that we should embrace a dualism that places the body and soul in opposition to each other. Instead, we need to acknowledge a certain realism about how the world functions on this side of the fall, being honest about what is evil—and even just disappointing. We can do so by clinging to God’s sovereignty in the midst of our suffering, his creativity to use it for our good, and his kindness to give us tangible good gifts even now, while we look with hope towards the future glory that awaits.

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