Divinely Designed
Being changed into the image of Jesus
Being changed into the image of Jesus
Why buy the book?
If you have found the chapters posted for free on the website to be
helpful, or illuminating; you will benefit even more by getting additional
details.
1. Footnotes:
The book has a richness that is not fully reflected in the online chapters,
because our website software does not support footnotes. There are
243 footnotes in the book!
The Footnotes are provided so that a reader can check what I have said
against the Bible and what theologians say, which is very important.
2. Endnotes:
There are also over 100 pages of Endnotes in the book, which elaborate
on various topics covered in the book.
3. More chapters.
There are 12 more chapters in the book than are posted online. (You
can see their titles by going to the “Table of contents”).
Illustrations
See the following two examples of what the Footnotes and
Endnotes add:
Page 45. The online chapter includes what is in the large print
below, but does not include the footnotes (the small print) at
the bottom of the page.
Page 27. The online chapter includes what is in the large print
below, but does not include the footnotes (the small print) at
the bottom of the page.
There are 100 pages of Endnotes that provide additional
information.
Some readers have said that some of the best stuff is in the
Endnotes. Below is one example, which gives additional
detail on Chapter 2.
Endnote #2-4
God's Plan and The Law
The spiritual realm has always operated in accordance with unchanging
principles. Prior to God giving the Ten Commandments to Moses,
people just didn't know what those principles were. Each culture
created its own standards. For instance, I am aware of a tribe in Papua
New Guinea who saw lying as good, and being deceitful to your enemy
so you could kill him as being the highest morality. They were almost
destroyed as a people, because the spiritual realm inescapably brings
destruction if we lie or murder. This happens whether or not we are
aware of the principles of the spiritual realm.
The Law that God gave to Moses was given so that people would know
how the spiritual realm operates, for cursing or for blessing. However,
then people still had to keep the Law with their own willpower. Nobody
ever succeeded.
Then Jesus came and provided a way by which we could be set free
from this bondage to the Law. He would pay the price for our sins, and
provided a way that we could be changed into His image so that we
would sin less often.
Satan immediately began to attack this law of liberty to bring people
back into bondage to the Law. He knew that it was deadly for us to try
to keep the Law in our own strength. The Epistles were written
specifically to counteract this attempt to destroy what Jesus did to save
His people. Unfortunately, shortly after the death of the Apostles, most
of the "church fathers" fell back into bondage to legalism (Bultmann,
Theology of the New Testament, Part II, pages 215-216). This is one of
the reasons why we all have struggled so hard to be good, and have
failed over and over again.
God doesn't want us to remain in that bondage. He wants us to live in
the "new and living way" that He provided for us in Christ Jesus.
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