tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37430348.post2366487057374108763..comments2023-09-01T02:58:45.146-06:00Comments on A Genuine Faith: Rodney Reeveshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09807421344946408041noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37430348.post-56276960620391688422011-06-20T15:44:32.729-06:002011-06-20T15:44:32.729-06:00I just finished reading "The Strange Case of ...I just finished reading "The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde." I couldn't help but recall this post. Like Paul, Stevenson writes about the struggle between man who is truly two, good and evil. Acknowledging the unbridled evil hiding within my own heart makes the resurrection power of the cross all the more necessary and sweet.<br /><br />Purity of heart is to will one thing - S.K.B Grifhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00808016484525190963noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37430348.post-10038962345354865962011-06-03T05:00:18.727-06:002011-06-03T05:00:18.727-06:00Dr. Reeves,
That sounds interesting. I don't p...Dr. Reeves,<br />That sounds interesting. I don't particularly find either extreme satisfactory (not that I have a sufficient answer either!), so I'm looking forward to reading your treatment of it. Thanks.Matt Enoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37430348.post-25292497052806059052011-06-02T09:11:33.501-06:002011-06-02T09:11:33.501-06:00I've sometimes wondered if the two Pauls colli...I've sometimes wondered if the two Pauls collide in the overlap between the end of Rom 7 and the beginning of Rom 8...Darryl Schaferhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11546651861977543817noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37430348.post-70797474083441198702011-06-02T08:02:22.399-06:002011-06-02T08:02:22.399-06:00Darryl--yes you did.
Matt--I think there were two...Darryl--yes you did.<br /><br />Matt--I think there were two Pauls: one who identified with Gentile believers and the other who identified with his kinsmen. I talk about this (a little bit) in my book on Paul's spirituality (coming out in November).<br /><br />Romans 7 captures both Pauls. How's that for compromising two extremes (the autobiographical and the biographical Paul)?Rodney Reeveshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09807421344946408041noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37430348.post-68185549502129798882011-06-01T19:25:33.567-06:002011-06-01T19:25:33.567-06:00Perhaps the bigger question is which Paul is speak...Perhaps the bigger question is which Paul is speaking this way in Romans 7Matt Enoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37430348.post-71547835845804437732011-06-01T15:20:41.983-06:002011-06-01T15:20:41.983-06:00Of course I do! That's what the last line is f...Of course I do! That's what the last line is for. :)Darryl Schaferhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11546651861977543817noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37430348.post-16400999918827483682011-06-01T12:58:33.725-06:002011-06-01T12:58:33.725-06:00Darryl,
I was hoping you'd hear echoes of St....Darryl,<br /><br />I was hoping you'd hear echoes of St. Paul (filtered through Sufjan).<br /><br />RRRRodney Reeveshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09807421344946408041noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37430348.post-27002212962412896162011-06-01T12:20:42.966-06:002011-06-01T12:20:42.966-06:00I hear Solzhenistyn. "Gradually it was disclo...I hear Solzhenistyn. "Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either, but right through every human heart, and through all human hearts. This line shifts. Inside us, it oscillates with the years. Even within hearts overwhlemed by evil, one small bridgehead of good is retained; and even in the best of all hearts, there remains a small corner of evil."<br /><br />Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord...Darryl Schaferhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11546651861977543817noreply@blogger.com