Tuesday, April 5, 2022

 We use sacred words to carefully describe our unique experience. The Bible carefully describes our true experience with sacred words. The problem of creation is not just a matter of telling our personal experiences of what is adequately described in the Bible. This question of the growth of the Christian life is not about improving our description of our experience through the use of biblical words, but gaining sufficient knowledge means that the words the Bible describes about our experience are in the context of all the words used in the Bible. That's exactly what I do professionally. I intuitively keep the sacred words in their right context and closely connect them in such a thoughtful way that they give us a thoughtfully accurate description of our creative experience. When I say that at the bottom of all the problems we experience is anger, because when a Adam fell into sin, God cursed everything. The eternal curse is only a detailed manifestation of God's wrath. What God did well as the desired result of the curse. It deprives us of the ability to maintain lasting peace. How do we lose our lasting peace with God? We begin to feel guilt, shame, sadness and fear. Not only does God curse us with moral guilt because we have sinned, but it also includes grief out of grief that we are unable to respond to the true love of God's wrath. That is why our anger is directed inside and out. We call this revenge or self-inflicted injury. Some theologians say that guilt is justified because it is a response to the voice of the law. And because we are transgressors of the law, we must experience the sorrow of guilt in order to return to Christ. Let me say that anyone who grows up in this process can lie. All men are cursed with the ambivalent notion that other men must be replaced in order to experience guilt. The only time I know someone who actually experiences guilt is when they can be seen to be broken. He sins and says nothing more. This whole topic of how desperately we need personal sin or how much shame we feel that we are going through this conversion is useless. Why useless? For although God cursed mankind in sin, etc. He also cursed the slaves who converted them. Now, at first glance, this seems like a logical contradiction. How can God curse those who repent and yet condemn people to sin? For some people, God must take care of a serious problem in Himself. What has God effectively done to end the guilt and curse of some people? Does he just do the finished work by Christ? Not really. He also forbade men from being reluctant to approach on their own terms. God placed angels with flaming swords around the tree of life so that no evil man could eat as he had imagined. Not only did God take care of the salvation of mankind, but He intended to prevent mankind from entering into sympathies for oneself.  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 meant when he rightly said that it does not depend on human effort or desire, but on God's grace. The apostle rightly said at the time that if it seemed cruel, "who are you to speak against God?" The Beloved Apostle taught that God always maintains a clean line of blessings and curses. God is no exception because of what we ask for. Why does God seem so cruel? Because he knew the curse was still in effect. God knows that if we leave the decision in our own hands, we will never accept our own wrath. We will basically curse ourselves. In the corner of our minds, we cannot yet believe in God's 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 explained this in detail in my teaching on the coming of the mystery of God.

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