In my play, ALL THINGS TO ALL MEN..The Life of St.Paul, while in prison, he stops, before being led out by the guard to be beheaded, and adresses the audience, "When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, but when I became a man, I set side childdish things..For now, we see through a glass, dimly, but then face to face with "truth"..and thus resides Faith, Hope and Charity, but the greatest of these is Charity.."unselfish love"."

I take dramatic license with Paul's famous scriptures, so that his parting words will accomplish two thing:                                                                                           Exhort them to understand that Paul's teachings are what should be followed, and to set aside those teachings they may already have learned, which are misleading, and down-right false!                                                                                                                            Dramatuc effect. I choose a "glass', because it's easier to understand that things they've heard in my play may be a little hard to understand, but with time will become clear.  And I use "charity" over "love", because that "word" has a ring to it, in while exhorting them!

Now, FAITH is defined as a "firm belief in "something", for which there is no tangible proof". A good example of this was when the centurion knew,  through his "faith",  that his servant would be cured, when Jesus told him that he was cured, without seeing the boy..and, of course he was.

We have the "faith", but we also have the "proof" at hand of God's existence, which He provided as  a "bonus", as shown in my blog, "GOD'S MESSENGERS", because it is so importatnt that Paul's teachings be known.  And why wouldn't He, when those teachings came to Paul direct from God's Spirit.  

HOPE is what I prefer to think of as "expectation".  It's alright to say that we believers have the "hope" that our lot is in the heavens with the Christ, but the common understandiing of "hope", today, is that we're not sure it will occur, but we"hope" so. As I've said, we have every expectation that, as a part of the body  of Christ, we will be with Him after the resurrection, no matter where He goes, and that includes, ultimately,  the heavens.

CHARITY, is not what we might think of, "doing goodwill", but as I said in my play, it is unselfish love.  What we receive from God, the Father.  His love is uncalled for, because we are sinners, but we are also recipients, because of His Grace.

But the greatest of these is LOVE.  What could  be greater than the proferring of unselfish love to our fellow "man" and receiving  "love", graciously  from a loving God!  paulnbob