Sacred Secular Divide Research Paper

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The sacred secular divide can be very hard to explain it is something that puts a shadow over everything in life, what it actually is, is a false worldview and can be very bad for Christians it is basically the difference between a Christian way of thinking and a worldly way of thinking, also things like buildings even have more importance such as in the Christian worldview church’s and places like that are more important and in the worldly way of thinking it’s school’s and businesses. If anything though it’s more about the distinction you make. When it comes to our relationship with God there are more important distinctions to make, and important is what we do for God not what are job is as long as it’s not against him. The way that a Christian

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