To continue a balance between unthinking praise of fallen mortals who fail their own standards while condemning mortals who fail God's infinitely greater standards.
First, while those failing to achieve self-appointed goals may find themselves improved humans, believers discover success in being MORE like JESUS! Indeed, as we try, and fail, to emulate his life, the less we succeed the greater our understanding of Jesus becomes. And the behinder we get, despite our effort, the more like him we become. Second, because skeptics deny the believer's spiritual dominance shouldn't lead us to question it. Because they deny God's existence doesn't alter his ETERNAL BEING. Because they deny Christ's sacrifice for all humanity in every age doesn't keep the Holy Spirit from successfully evangelizing the unforgiven from LOST to SAVED. Because a majority of Americans want unlimited abortion on demand doesn't eliminate God's declaration that human life begins at conception Luke 1:39-45. Indeed, Christians RISE to OUR spiritual enfranchisement. It comes as God's gift of GRACE that no doubter can ever decrease. For while their doubt issues from an ignorance of God's word that often refuses education, our privilege rests in a knowledge of God that continually fuels our spiritual energy, whatever life-circumstances we experience. Third, unbelievers seek pleasure; Christians testing. They want ease in life; we spiritual strength for the stresses of life. They understand life as a marathon to be endured to the end; we as a steeplechase whose obstacles can and are to be overcome on the way to the end. They want a human maturity to fit in as a fellow-mortal; we a spiritual maturity that qualifies us to join the godly host of saints before us and those still with us in our shared ascent to Heaven. They can ignore God, and do; Christians can't, and won't. They live only to die; we die only to live again, forever. They live in history until they or it ends. We live in history until IT ENDS and God's Eternity Begins to never end. End Part IV
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