"... What is human godliness, the godliness that is true holiness, as seen in Jesus. It is simply human life lived as the Creator intended, an existence in which the elements of the human person are completely united in a totally God-honoring and nature-fulfilling way. (Since God made humanity for himself, godliness naturally fulfills human nature at the deepest level. As experience proves, no contentment can match the contentment of obeying God, however costly this may prove.)
Human lives that are lived differently from this, ...are less than fully human in terms of their quality. Holiness and humanness are correlative terms and mutual implicates... To the extent that I fall short of the first, I fall short of the second as well.
All members of our fallen race who, because they do not know Jesus Christ, still live under the power of that self-deifying, anti-God syndrome in our spiritual system, which the Bible calls sin, are living lives that are qualitatively subhuman. Sin in our minds says otherwise, but in this, as always, sin is lying."
J. I. Packer, Rediscovering Holiness, Servant Publications Ann Arbor, MI 1992, pp 26,27.
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Human lives that are lived differently from this, ...are less than fully human in terms of their quality. Holiness and humanness are correlative terms and mutual implicates... To the extent that I fall short of the first, I fall short of the second as well.
All members of our fallen race who, because they do not know Jesus Christ, still live under the power of that self-deifying, anti-God syndrome in our spiritual system, which the Bible calls sin, are living lives that are qualitatively subhuman. Sin in our minds says otherwise, but in this, as always, sin is lying."
J. I. Packer, Rediscovering Holiness, Servant Publications Ann Arbor, MI 1992, pp 26,27.
Blogs to return Monday.
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