God Without Religion: Can It Really Be This Simple? by Andrew Farley

Author:Andrew Farley
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9781441232120
Publisher: Baker Publishing Group
Published: 2011-06-01T00:00:00+00:00

Spiritual Schizophrenia?

So if we’re going to look for a reason why we still sin, we’d better not resurrect the old self in our theology. To do so goes against God’s Word. And consider this: if you don’t believe your old self is dead, buried, and gone, you’re going to try to kill off “half of you” somehow. Jesus said that a house divided against itself cannot stand (Mark 3:25). Having two opposing identities at war with each other is a spiritual schizophrenia we can’t stand. We’re meant for something simpler. We’re meant for something better. We’re meant for the truth.

We are new.

There’s one obstacle to us buying into this spiritual exchange of personhood as real and actual: the fact that we still sin. So some say our death with Christ is only positional (“heavenly”) truth. Others say it’s only progressive truth (becoming true, little by little). I guess we’ll say whatever we need to say to explain why we still sin. After all, how can this heart surgery be anything more than progressive or symbolic if we still wake up every day and struggle?

Fortunately, there’s an answer. It comes straight from the pen of the same apostle who informed us we’re new. Paul tells us we’re new, and then he tells us why we still struggle. And why we still sin as new creations in Christ is one of the most powerful discoveries any Christian can make. Over the next few chapters, we’ll look to God’s Word to make that discovery.

But first, let’s talk politics.

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