The text of 2 Corinthians 5 provides an unusual instruction on how to live our lives. This is a very strange thing to talk to people about. The subject is what are you living for? What are you living to accomplish? In trying to answer that question, we look at how a few great pagan thinkers have answered it including Aristotle, Siddhartha Gautama, Epicurus, Epictetus, Seneca, Marcus Aurelius, and Jean-Paul Sartre. For most of us the goal of living is to get through the week! Most of the rest of us live like slaves, we are forced by circumstances to do one thing or another, and there isn’t much time to think about how we are living, except to be sad or angry that our lives are filled with difficulty and trouble over which we have little control. This episode discusses what the Bible actually teaches about this topic.
