We leave a big vacuum in our lives when we reduce salvation to a clear
division between works and faith. So these two liners look at the
christian life from two perspectives. The first is from the grace
perspective... what God does in your life. The second is from the works
perspective ...what you do to match what God does. You will find as I
have that this leads to dealing with trials as if they were the painful
gifts of a distant God. I mean if your gonna become holy then their idea
is to focus on what you do to match what God does. Thats the inevitable
outcome of believing that on the one hand grace takes care of sin but
on the other hand do not take grace for granted. lol So all of our
trials really come from God to make us realize that grace cost
something. lol
But is God responsible for bringing evil into our
lives? Isnt Satan the guy who ask God to test us? Why would we cause
ourselves turmoil (you will end with anxiety if you embrace two line) by
saying that God has direct responsibility to bring us trials? So it
gets all my christian brothers off the hook because in saying that God
brought the trial it is a mystery and its good so let the guy stew in
the misery. Look Ive not a novice at this experience stuff. You know
this is exactly what it comes to.
But if Satan brings the trial
by Gods allowance then it forces us to think that if not for God holding
Satan back there go I. Instead of seeing the trial as a good thing we
see it as an evil that has befallen our brother. I mean if we believe
that on the side of sanctification it is necessary for God to break some
arms then our counsel is this is a good thing for you.
But see
the God side of this goes beyond just one line. It over sees the second
practical line. So the bible teaches that both of these supposed sides
are for the purpose of our personal deliverance. If we say that God
delivers us through the destructive trials then we are saying that Gods
purpose is to do us harm. Or as two line has insinuated that God does
evil to us so that good may come of it. The christian life is
experienced like the movie the Saw. lol
But if we are suffering
under a trial then there are only two states that we can dwell in.
There is hate or love. Now if love is hate turned good for our growth
then love and hate are redefined. This is the problem with embracing a
contradiction. Good becomes evil and evil becomes good. This sort of
reasoning infects all their presuppositions about the clarity of
doctrine.
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