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Then elsewhere he writes, "...the Christian is in a different position from other people who are trying to be good. ...the Chris ...

Christian has received the presence of God, the life of Jesus Christ, within his/her spirit at regeneration, constituting the re ...

are good inherently, intrinsically, independently, autonomously, or eternally. We have received the Good- One, the God-One, Jesu ...

clarification concerns itself with a denial of lapsing into the second and third premises of moralism. When we become Christians ...

Christian gospel "down the river" into mere morality! Christian religion has taught The Imitation of Christ (Thomas A'Kempis) by ...

Thus we proceed to further amplify that Jesus Christ is the sole source of all good behavior in the Christian. Jesus is the sole ...

goodness in and through us as Christian is ever-new, novel, unique, fresh and spontaneous. It cannot be explained in ecclesiasti ...

character of God, expressed and enacted by the power and grace of God. Whenever we come across the New Testament admonitions exh ...

appreciate that it is God's goodness expressed in our behavior. As Christians we are to continue to be available and receptive i ...

God was to dwell within, and activate His character of goodness through the creature man. By the fall of mankind into sin, and t ...

rather than freedom of function. So there is nothing that frightens the religionist or moralist more than freedom from the legal ...

function the revelation of the character of God, and grace is the divine dynamic to express that character of God freely in the ...

against moralism, but it leads to social chaos apart from the recognition of God's grace-expression of goodness. Sin is still si ...

Jesus Christ wants to express His character of goodness in the social community of the Church. The Church is the "Body of Christ ...

God's grace alone, which is the out-working of Christ's life. The God who is good is the actuator who activates the expression o ...

centered, but God-centered, Christ-centered. Returning to the quotation of C.S. Lewis, "Christianity leads you on, out of morali ...

expressed in man's behavior, the character of the invisible God made visible, imaged in man. In the fall of man into sin, Adam r ...

to show man that he did not have what it took to be man as God intended. What about the Old Testament Law? Does it have any refe ...

that law...because they did not pursue it by faith" (Rom. 9:31). "...not knowing about God's righteousness, and seeking to estab ...

failing to understand the divine intent of man's deriving all character expression from God. "In the fullness of time God sent f ...