Authenticity

Psalm 1 introduces us to the doctrine of the two ways, which is a very common concept. Most Americans are acquainted with Robert Frost’s use of the idea in the poem “The Road Not Taken.”

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-

I took the one less traveled by,

And that has made all the difference

There are examples in scripture that speak of this doctrine. The most important is the use of the idea by Jesus toward the end of the Sermon on the Mount as he contrasts, between which choices must be made: two gates and two roads, two trees and their two types of fruit, two houses and two foundations. Psalm 1 is the clearest and most carefully developed .

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