Date: May 28, 2008 18:29
More on the various types of sinners: Antinomians – those ‘against the
law’ – are sinners who do not want to change; Pharisees do not know
they’re sinners – and also do not want to change; Saints know they’re
sinners and do want to change. I see vestiges of all three attitudes in
myself...
Remember saints are not proud of what they’ve ‘achieved’ – they are/have
nothing not already given. Pharisees tend towards hubris: their
cleverness (they think) is mainly of their own making...
Saints sincerely believe ‘God hasn’t finished with me yet’. Pharisees
are stuck where they were: they find it difficult to say (of an idea,
for example): ‘Hey, that’s interesting... I must do more thinking about
that. Maybe God is in this new thought.’
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