External success and internal feelings; most people use these as a sort of cost-benefit analyses to shape their lives in selecting or changing a career, acting morally, hanging
friends, etc. External success and internal feelings. In both cases, “self” is the goal of life, the core of life’s meaning, the highest value. Each self becomes its own moral universe, guided by self-interest. What could be more alien to the first commandment, to have no other gods? Jesus speaks to this commandment and the idea of God vs. self.
Scripture: Matthew 6:19-24, 33