My Grace is Sufficient for You

My grace is sufficient! Because of the surpassing greatness of the revelations, for this reason, tokeep me from exalting myself, there was given me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to torment me — to keep me from exalting myself! Concerning this I implored the Lord three times that it might leave me. And He has said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for power is perfected in weakness.” Most gladly, therefore, I will rather boast about my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may dwell in me. Therefore I am well content with weaknesses, with insults, with distresses, with persecutions, with difficulties, for Christ’s sake; for when I am weak, then I am strong. 2 Corinthians 12: 7-10, mythoughts, thoughtsofgod, thoughts of God, David Reese

7 Because of the surpassing greatness of the revelations, for this reason, to keep me from exalting myself, there was given me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to torment me—to keep me from exalting myself! 8 Concerning this I implored the Lord three times that it might leave me. 9 And He has said to me, […]

Nygren’s Agape and Eros: A Transvaluation of Love

it is the Christian conception of fellowship with God that gives the idea of Agape its meaning, mythoughts, thoughts of God, thoughtsofgod, David Reese, Anders Nygren, Nygren, Agape and Eros, Agape, Eros

In Greco-Hellenism the gods do not love man.  In Christianity, not only is God Agape but Agape is His very nature.  In Greco-Roman world the gods do not take part in a fellowship with man, Christianity places fellowship in the middle of the Agape motif.  Finally, Christianity is theocentric while Greek thought is egocentric.