This is comparatively the way that decent people approach us when we feel confident in our unique experience. I genuinely think we are wrestling here with falsely representing these extraordinary experiences that Christians heartily enjoy. I've very seldom observed someone who actually in all serenity delights in boasting about Christ. The religious culture we live in suppresses the advantage that we enjoy worship with spiritual, and physical might. We are constantly instructed that our sublime experience will be the eternal future but now we are assigned in this corrupt world to toil and work. And we glory in tearfully describing the Christian life as a life of pain and constant trouble. We reluctantly conclude this in subtle ways by employing words like we are "bound by the flesh" or we teach a good dog and bad dog analogy.

 All of our reasoning processes are producing a created image. We are remarkably competent at viewing ourselves and others especially in being taught to forcibly incorporate the "contemporary knowledge of human behavior."Every emotional image that we develop unfortunate errors in our shallow view of the causes that we use to inconsistently apply our wisdom in a given situation. It's reasonable for us to believe we must subdue our will by producing an image of Christ in describing as intensest pain lowering our expectations so that we are not overly confident. We cannot detach ourselves from our disconcerting experience as we incorrectly interpret our image of Christ. This personal description exposes our inner Christian experiences.

 And we talk as if we stand in a neutral position as we describe all of these different views that have a little truth that adds up to the truth. We misrepresent the Christian experience as simply an accumulation of knowledge that we are detached in being able to describe all of these different views so that we can have a unified acceptance as how we feel hope. We are creatures who crave acceptance.
Our real reality starts in how we view God. What is God like? How big is this God? What has God said? We see that this false image was used in the first temptation. "Has God said"? God created everything in 6 days and pronounced it good. But man tried to redefine God's perfect pronouncements. Instead of man pronouncing God's pronouncement in response to the serpent ...man decided to pronounce his own authority over creation. The serpent simply asked the question "Is God really good"? Man should have spoken the pronouncement that God declared everything good.

But to some people the tree of knowledge of good and evil had some kind of weird power to draw some men away. They present the idea that to choose is to be in between two equal powers. The power of the pronouncement and the evil power of the tree. But if there is no evidence of a choice then there is no choice at all. A choice is simply God allowing so that we experience freedom in enjoying the choice.

We see that God has decreed whatsoever comes to pass. He has given us enough pronouncements to resist the devil. In fact He has already decreed that the devil is powerless to rule by evil and destruction. But we want to describe our christian experience by living in this imagination of equilibrium. We want to imagine that its because we have a choice to either obey or disobey that defines our freedoms. We do not want to have Gods pronouncements on our lips and be confident that we understand the end from the beginning because we are safe in His description of us. We want to redefine our image.