

To speak of any other “god” besides He who created all things and in whom we also live is to speak of a demon. {Gal 4:8}
Discipline is love. God is love. God is discipline.
In sum, the apostles spoke prophetic utterances not merely to some men, but to all men, anywhere, everywhere -- for all time.
"Truth is never pleasant."
To know the origin of a thing is to know also its end.
Is there a difference between God's thoughts and His actions?
God will not be mocked, least of all by man who believes it is his right and privilege to mock, denigrate, and "deconstruct", if only for the sake of mockery, denigration, and deconstruction.
Yet God does not lie, He is not a lie and does not progress. He is.
The unredeemed mind left to its own devices - which are innumerable and diverse - is a battlefield of unending, brutal, neverending, and ruthless war.
Why does God allow men, even His chosen flock, to endure a life of flesh with all its travails and deceits, pitfalls and futilities when He has already and enduringly saved them from the flesh and resurrected their members to new life in the Spirit?
Only he who has been arrested by such truths can glory in them and give glory to the God who has declared them to all creation. He who has not, will, of course, not.
Any so-called "new" or "novel" notion of faith is in no way new or novel, nor are they in any way faith at all, nor even "thought", properly understood.