We employ sacred words to carefully describe our exceptional experience. The bible carefully explains our authentic experience with sacred words. The creative problem remains not merely a matter of speaking of our personalized experience as the same as what the bible is sufficiently describing. This matter of growing in the Christian life is not tied to developing our description of our experience by using bible words but its gaining enough knowledge so what the words the bible describes about our experience are within the context of all the words the bible uses. This is merely what I am performing professionally. I am intuitively grasping the sacred words in their proper context and intimately connecting them in such a conceivable way that they thoughtfully provide us the accurate description of our creative experience. When I say that anger is at the bottom of all of our experienced troubles is because when man fell into sin God cursed everything. A eternal curse is purely an elaborate display of Gods anger. What did God perform properly as a desired result of the curse. He took away our functional ability to remain at durable peace within ourselves. How did we lose our lasting peace with God? We began experiencing guilt, shame, sorrow and anxiety. God did not merely curse us with moral guilt because we sin but included sorrow upon sorrow inability to respond thoughtfully in genuine love to Gods anger. Hence, our passionate anger is directed outward and inward. We dub this either getting even or having self inflicted wounds. Some theologians say guilt is appropriate because it is a response to the voice of the law. And since we are law breakers, we need experiencing the sorrow of guilt to turn to Christ. Enable me say that any able man to grow through this process is lying. All men are cursed with the ambivalent view its the other guy who needs to vicariously experience the conscious guilt. The only time I've identified a man indeed experience guilt is when he is visibly wrecked. He would sin, and there would be nothing to state. This whole topic about how much personal guilt we sorely need or how much shame we merely experience to go through this conversion is useless. Why is it useless? Because even tho God cursed mankind with guilt, etc. He also cursed those enslaved people who blame. Presently at first sight this seems like a logical contradiction. How can God curse those who blame and still condemn men for sin? God had to take care of the acute problem in Himself for some men. What did God efficiently perform to end triumphantly the blame and curse for some men? Did He purely perform the completed work through Christ? Not really. He also forbids men to reluctantly approach on their own terms. God put the angels with flaming swords around the tree of life so that no corrupt man could eat of it on his own terms. God did not merely offer redemption to man but He intentionally made it impossible for man to enter sympathetically on his own. If man is a universalist at heart at the point where he thinks a person should be a saint stating his own reasons for God to select this man are more legitimate than Gods reasons for the man to die in his own sin. Therefore, the problem is man lowers God by ascribing Him in a box. This is what the apostle was addressing when he justly says that it does not depend upon human effort or desire but upon divine mercy. At that proper time the apostle justly said that if this seems harsh then "who are you to talk back to God?" What the beloved apostle is teaching that God meticulously maintains a pure line of blessing and cursing at all times. God doesn't represent exceptions because of what we demand. Why is God seemed so harsh? Because He knows the curse is still in effect. God knows that if we allow the decision into our own hands then we would never come to terms with our own anger. We in essence would curse ourselves. In the back of our minds, we would still be untrusting of Gods decision. This is at the bottom of all our moral problems in dealing justly with the eternal curse in us and the heathen world. I've explained this in detail in my teaching on coming to divine mystery.
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