But Adam if you’ll remember was created outside the Garden, in the wilderness… Only afterward is he brought to Eden. “Eve was created within the lush beauty of Eden’s garden. It is an image often clouded by the noxious smoke of secular psychology and is often subdued by a society which wants to neuter its men it is this image which Eldredge desires to bring forth and to drive men to seek after, simultaneously dealing with the many problems which often accompany such a task. Man is made in a certain image, and that image is struggling to be seen. Yet this is just what John Eldredge does with his analysis into the soul of man. Knowing this makes all the difference in the world.It is very rare that an author comes along who can pierce straight to the heart of an issue, who can state just what needs to be stated in just the way in which it needs to be said. 8:2–3, 9–11 The Message) The real you is on the side of God against the false self. When God lives and breathes in you (and he does, as surely as he did in Jesus), you are delivered from that dead life. if the alive-and-present God who raised Jesus from the dead moves into your life, he’ll do the same thing in you that he did in Jesus. But for you who welcome him, in whom he dwells. Anyone, of course, who has not welcomed this invisible but clearly present God, the Spirit of Christ, won’t know what we’re talking about. The Spirit of life in Christ, like a strong wind, has magnificently cleared the air, freeing you from a fated lifetime of brutal tyranny at the hands of sin and death. The battle is not between us and God no, there is a traitor within who wars against our true heart fighting alongside the Spirit of God in us: A new power is in operation.
Yes, there is a war within us, but it is a civil war. In the core of your being you are a good man. The New Testament calls you a saint, a holy one, a son of God. “The Big Lie in the church today is that you are nothing more than “a sinner saved by grace.” You are a lot more than that.
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