I was struck a number of years ago about all the hype of "six degrees of seperation". What is it?
Six degrees of separation (also referred to as the "Human Web") refers to the idea that everyone is on average approximately six steps away from any other person on Earth, so that a chain of, "a friend of a friend" statements can be made, on average, to connect any two people in six steps or fewer. It was originally set out by Frigyes Karinthy and popularized by a play written by John Guare.
The play writes:
"A fascinating game grew out of this discussion. One of us suggested performing the following experiment to prove that the population of the Earth is closer together now than they have ever been before. We should select any person from the 1.5 billion inhabitants of the Earth—anyone, anywhere at all. He bet us that, using no more than five individuals, one of whom is a personal acquaintance, he could contact the selected individual using nothing except the network of personal acquaintances. "
Our readings tell us a different story today. Paul writes in Romans that the human web is connected by one of two acquaintances; Adam or Jesus and there is are not six degrees of separation, but one.
"But the gift is not like the trespass. For if the many died by the trespass of the one man, how much more did God's grace and the gift that came by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ!" (Romans 5:16)
Further more, these acquaintances do not cross over! "For just as through the disobedience of the one man, the many were made sinners, so also through the obedience of the one man the many will be made righteous." (Romans 5:19)
There it is! It's not a 1:1, but a 1:All! There are not 6 degrees, but one. One you grasp this, you gain the gift Christ died for you to have; freedom. (John 8:32)
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