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…
Shortly after God made Adam, He took him on a tour of the rest of creation. “This is all amazing,” Adam said, “What are you going to do next?” “I’ve decided to make you a companion,” God replied, “I’m going to make her from your body, so you’ll be completely compatible in every way. She’ll…
We know that the only way for a being whose nature is NOT right and just (us) to be completely righteous is to choose to take direction from a being who IS always and completely right and just (God). The only way to do this would be for us be humble and reject comparative thinking…
The key to becoming like God is to be righteous. We become more righteous by becoming more right. The best way to become more right is for someone with all the information in existence (God) to guide us. We can only accept that guidance if we are willing to be contrastive, otherwise known as humility. …