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<blockquote data-quote="Mark Corbett" data-source="post: 71981938" data-attributes="member: 398820"><p>I both agree with you and disagree.</p><p></p><p>I agree because our deepest and primary struggle against evil is against the evil we find in our own "flesh", in human hearts. The only solution for this is the gospel of Jesus Christ, both in it's initial application when by God's grace we are born again, and then in the long fight for holiness as we grow in Christ through faith by His grace.</p><p></p><p>I disagree in the sense that what you say is, I feel, a false dichotomy. There is also evil "out in the world". We need to be delivered from evil BOTH in terms of being forgiven, set free, and transformed from our own sin, AND from being attacked and harmed from the sin of others.</p><p></p><p>Christians in Syria, for example, have suffered very REAL evil in the world. (All of us have, I just chose a particularly obvious example.)</p><p></p><p>God works through many means. One way He chooses to partially restrain and stop some of the evil in this world is through the right use of government force. In the OP I shared what I view as several HUGE examples of God working in this way.</p><p></p><p>Grace and Peace, Mark (with Hope and Joy!)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mark Corbett, post: 71981938, member: 398820"] I both agree with you and disagree. I agree because our deepest and primary struggle against evil is against the evil we find in our own "flesh", in human hearts. The only solution for this is the gospel of Jesus Christ, both in it's initial application when by God's grace we are born again, and then in the long fight for holiness as we grow in Christ through faith by His grace. I disagree in the sense that what you say is, I feel, a false dichotomy. There is also evil "out in the world". We need to be delivered from evil BOTH in terms of being forgiven, set free, and transformed from our own sin, AND from being attacked and harmed from the sin of others. Christians in Syria, for example, have suffered very REAL evil in the world. (All of us have, I just chose a particularly obvious example.) God works through many means. One way He chooses to partially restrain and stop some of the evil in this world is through the right use of government force. In the OP I shared what I view as several HUGE examples of God working in this way. Grace and Peace, Mark (with Hope and Joy!) [/QUOTE]
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