Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society Volume 50
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Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society, Volume 50.
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“Although Paul sees his thorn as an attack from Satan designed to inflict pain, he also sees it as a gift of God with a salutary purpose. He detects the hand of God, as well as the hand of Satan, behind his affliction.” (Volume 50, Number 3, Page 464)
“what is most striking is that he presents Satan as an instrument God uses to entice someone to sin” (Volume 50, Number 3, Page 455)
“God no more desires the failure of the followers of Jesus than he desired the failure of Jesus himself. It is his will that believers experience temptation, and he uses Satan as an instrument through which temptation comes, but his intentions are radically different from those of the one who is called ‘the tempter.’ When James says that God ‘tempts no one,’ he is not claiming that God has no connection with temptation or that it falls outside the realm of his control.39 More likely, he wants his readers to know that no one can evade responsibility for moral failure on the grounds that God willed that they should do evil.” (Volume 50, Number 3, Page 459)
“Satan may be portrayed as acting with the permission of God or as an unwitting instrument of God, but in either case, he fulfills the will of God in what he does. One must, therefore, be careful to avoid exaggerating the power of Satan and setting up a dichotomy between God and Satan that would suggest a particular action must be attributed to either one or the other. These alternatives are not mutually exclusive. Satan is God’s adversary, but whatever he does falls under the overarching sovereignty of God.” (Volume 50, Number 3, Page 465)
“Modern secularism assumes that the human mind operates in normality. But it is in fact corrupted by sin” (Volume 50, Number 1, Page 96)
- Title: Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society Volume 50
- Author: The Evangelical Theological Society
- Series: Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society
- Publisher: Evangelical Theological Society
- Print Publication Date: 2007
- Logos Release Date: 2009
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subject: Theology › Periodicals
- Resource ID: LLS:gs_jets_50
- Resource Type: Journal
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