Loving Future Generations

A Litmus Test for Altruism

“Do not work for the food that perishes,” Jesus says in John 6:27, but “for the food that endures to eternal life.” 

This simple juxtaposition between the perishing and the eternal pervades the New Testament, and is fundamental to the moral life. In Matthew 6, Jesus invokes it for our possessions, exhorting us to lay up our treasures in heaven “where nei…