1. Satan didn't lie, but he told Adam and Eve exactly what would happen. The only thing he didn't say is whether or not they would like it.
  2. The struggle is real. That is to say, the struggle with sin. Can we make ourselves holy? Can we find within ourselves the strength to make it better?
  3. At the heart of The Idiot is Dostoevsky's confession of faith and the confession of all Christians.
  4. The spirit indeed is willing and desires bodily death as a gentle sleep. It does not consider it to be death; it knows no such thing as death.
  5. Pain and suffering; it can feel like punishment from an angry God, and we try to figure out the cause, to our own frustration.
  6. Waiting on God can seem like slow motion torture sometimes.
  7. There’s no possibility of understanding the grace of Romans 6 and the glory of Romans 8 unless you identify with the excruciating struggle of Romans 7.
  8. The only solution to free will is the announcement from a preacher that the Father forgives us for Christ's sake.
  9. The God who abundantly restores is still in the business of total restoration, even today. Even now the God of heaven restores dead sinners to life.
  10. Our Judge (the one who can condemn us) has become our Advocate (the one who doesn’t condemn us) because he is also our Substitute (the one who takes our condemnation).
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