When we do wrong, we need some kind of justification to address our guilt-debt. Thinking contrastively about our wrongdoings can lead to righteousness. If instead we are comparative in our thinking, then we rationalize our wrongs or do something in order to justify ourselves. I call this Justification of Man. The actions we do to…
As an interlude to our examination of the first dispensation we’ve been looking at some of the terms that the Eden narrative introduced – the first being justification and in the last couple posts, the specific form known as “religion”. Religion consists of actions we engage in to justify our wrongs and/or pay our guilt…
Sorry folks, I just didn’t have the mental or temporal bandwidth to do a full blog post this week (in fact my posting regularity my be a bit sporadic for the next couple of months. Lots of stuff on my plate), but I wanted to put a little something up. Based on some reactions I…
In the last post, we saw that when we do something wrong, we feel guilt which drives us to seek some type of justification for our wrongs. We can either choose the “Justification of God”, which begins with contrastive thinking and can lead to God’s righteousness, or we can choose the “Justification of Man” which…
We’ve been examining how the dispensations are God’s contrastive process of showing how His plan of righteousness is the correct one. In the last post, we saw that Adam and Eve failed in the first dispensation primarily because they chose to justify themselves over God when they committed a wrong act. You can’t escape the…