Paradox and the Christian Faith: The words of Christ can indeed seem confusing to the uninitiated mind, to him who thinks only as the world thinks. Those who have not had a change of heart, those who have not put on the mind of Christ, how can they understand the teaching that "the last shall be first," or that "one must die to live"...? And confusion will tun to repulsion when he realizes the humility and sacrifice to which...