"Conversations"
DIVINE
GOODNESS IN PERSPECTIVE
August
15, 2021
....I
awake this morning with thoughts from our conversation about
God and goodness. I want to just jot down a few for you to
reinforce what we talked about and perhaps as a foundation
for a larger article.
Man is separated from the life of God being confined under
the knowledge of good and evil. Every question beginning
with the premise "How / Why does a good God allow...[fill in
the blank]?" or this premise, "If God is so good, then
why...[fill in the blank]?" reveals that separation. All
human unbelief and offense over God is based in the
experiential violation of that knowledge.
To come to know God in Whom is eternal life by faith, one
must overcome the skandalon [offense] of the violation of
his natural human knowledge of good. There is no other way
to enter into eternal life. God may meet us at the level of
our knowledge of good to reach us with His life, but
He will never allow Himself to be defined by or conformed to
our unbelief based in it. Whatever goodness He avails of to
experientially meet us where we are is for the purpose of
leading us to repentance for our unbelief through our
worship of the knowledge of good. And if that does not
succeed, then the only other avenue left to reach us is
experiential evil.
The problem with most "faith" and "faith teaching" in a land
where experiential good tends to prevail (ie, "the good
life") is that God's people do the very thing God will not,
which is to appease the knowledge of good in order to
explain God and win men to "faith." Most believers "faith"
is actually defined by their own knowledge of good, and they
do not really know God very well. if at all.
The reason for the great falling away or apostasy to come is
because God will fail to accommodate the church's worship of
their knowledge of good any longer in His name. Experiential
goodness will be removed and replaced by experiential
tribulation on a level the church would never accept. The
church has subtly converted the mantra "God is good" into
the belief that "Good is god." Your pansy Christian
friends who are steeped in this are going to all fall away
from the faith unless they repent of their worship of the
experiential goodness of God as their god.
This has been the test and the skandalon for all of us.
There is an experiential spiritual knowing of God that
remains beyond the veil of our knowing of experiential
goodness. Every one of us must perpetually cross that veil
to meet our knowing of God in eternal life according to
where He is and not according to where we want Him to be
with us. This is the proof of true surrender, love and
discipleship. Anyone who cannot finally submit to entering
into the knowing of God through the violation of his veil of
the knowledge of God's goodness will fail at that point.
Jesus perpetually prays for all of us that our "faith will
not fail."
I encourage you to find time to listen to the audio series
on my website called Skandalon by Ray McCollum. I still
listen to it these 30 years later. It is a must for every
true believer.
Thanks again Pam for your steadfast faithfulness to us as
friends even under trial. We have passed through several
skandalons together and are still friends. That is true
covenant and community. I also encourage you to listen to
the message by Larry Lea on that same webpage further down
called Restoring Friendship.
Blessings and love in the overcoming faith, hope to be back
soon
&&&&&&&&&&
Chris Anderson
New Meadow Neck, Rhode Island
First
Love Ministry
- a ministry of Anglemar Fellowship
http://www.firstloveministry.org
8/21
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