Masterpiece

There are, dear reader, many copies of an original masterpiece found throughout the world .Yet while each copy can bring much pleasure to its individual owner or viewer, it's value, rightly so, is always judged less than the original itself. Even more confusingly, there exists artists of such skill in the world that they can copy an original masterpiece to such seemingly perfect brushstroke that it takes an expert to be able to differentiate their work from the original. There can be only one masterpiece, the rest are all copies or imitations. While those who have known copies can take great pleasure from this, the person who thinks They have a masterpiece yet suddenly discovers they have a forgery, has a very different view on the work they now own. Copies are useful only when they are recognised as copies, when mistaken for the original thing they can cause many problems.
The same illustration can be applied to our spiritual life, the faith of Christianity tells about the relationship between the deity father and the deity son. So instantly, we look towards our own relationships of father and son to come to understand what we think this faith is trying to communicate. The problem is we use a copy to try and interpret the original. This problem is further compounded when we fail to realise that we are using a copy. All relationships that we have are only poor imitations of the pure relationship between the deity father and the deity son. Therefore dear reader, I ask you today, where you looking for your masterpiece?

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