Occam's Razor

There’s a thing in philosophy and science called Occam’s Razor. It’s a principle that says the simplest answer is the right answer. Occam’s Razor is generally accepted to be 99.99 percent of the time true. Medical students are told, for example, "When you hear hoofbeats, think horses, not zebras."

The phrase in Paul’s epistles that matches is II Corinthians 11: ‘the simplicity that is in Christ.’

Most the time we think life is extremely complicated because we get our plate so full. We think there are 50 million different reasons for failure and for sin or for success.

It does not matter what your specific circumstances are; there are really only three fundamental points of being tested:

• the lust of the flesh,
• the lust of the eye
• and the pride of life.

When Adam and Eve were tested and fell, it was in those three points. In Matthew 4, when Jesus Christ was tested of Satan, it was in those three points He was tempted.

When sin attacks you, it attacks you on one of those three points. The whole course of the world is based upon focusing an attack on YOUR thinking and YOUR soul under those three points.

(Knowing Occam's Razor makes the success of standing against the wiles of the devil an easier fight, I think. - Linda)

(From R. Jordan via Lisa Leland . com)