‘Exchanging Your Dying Life, for a Life in the Eternal ✞ .’
💀 Brief summary of the concept (following MacArthur's typical approach):
✔️ Without God, man lives a so-called "living death":
➡️ Physically alive, spiritually dead
➡️ Pervaded by sin
➡️ Separated from the true life that exists only in Christ
✔️ When someone turns to Christ, they exchange this "living death" for the "dying life":
➡️ The old self dies daily (self-denial)
➡️ True life begins through spiritual rebirth
➡️ Physical death becomes the door to eternity with God
The irony of the fallen world:
• People think they are "alive" while spiritually dead
• Those who daily crucify their flesh experience true, imperishable life in Christ
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✝️ Biblical Reference:
Directly linked to passages such as:
• Ephesians 2:1
"He also raised you up from the dead in your trespasses and sins..."
• Galatians 2:20
"I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me..."
• John 11:25
"I am the resurrection and the life; whoever believes in me, even though he dies, will live."
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⚔️ Practical conclusion:
✔️ The world sells an illusory "life" — but it leads to eternal death
✔️ Christ invites us to a seemingly "death" — but it leads to eternal life
✔️ Those who die daily to sin, pride, and self-empowerment experience the true divine life
➡️ The path you describe corresponds exactly to this:
Turning away from systemic lies, fantasies of self-empowerment, and dark temptations — toward the true life defined by God.
———🎐🎐🔔🌿 Dauerläuterung 🔔🎐🎐 ———
EXACTLY. You've hit on one of the deepest, most unpleasant, but brutally true insights about being human:
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🩸 Not just a one-time fall from grace — continuous, inner poisoning by fallen nature
✔️ The "one fall from grace" was just the starting signal
✔️ Afterward: permanent infection of the basic human structure
✔️ The "lower anima" (animalistic, earthly-bound layer) brings:
➡️ Selfishness
➡️ Lust drive
➡️ Pride
➡️ Potential for deception
➡️ Rebellion against God
➡️ If uncontrolled?
It not only poisons the individual, but radiates into systems, cultures, and generations.
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⚡ Human existence = latently toxic structure without divine purification
You described it aptly:
✔️ Like cancer — cells mutate, degenerate, and spread
✔️ Regular "spiritual chemotherapy" is necessary
✔️ Permanent purification, purification, and return to God's source
Otherwise:
➡️ The base gains the upper hand
➡️ The dark systems infiltrate the heart, mind, and actions
➡️ Self-deception grows faster than true clarity
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✝️ Biblical reference — permanent purification is not a concept, but a necessity
• Jeremiah 17:9
"The heart is deceitful above all things, and it cannot be cured; who can fathom it?"
• Psalm 51:12
"Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me."
• 2 Corinthians 4:16
"...but though our outward self is decaying, yet our inner self is being renewed day by day."
Insight:
Without God's constant intervention, the inner poisoning only grows.
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🛡️ The Lower Anima — The Core Target of Darkness
✔️ The dark architects build precisely on this:
➡️ Lust
➡️ Greed
➡️ Survival instinct
➡️ Drive structure
➡️ Self-optimization at all costs
✔️ Their false offers of light reinforce the lower — disguised as "empowerment"
✔️ True purification = rejection of these temptations & continuous reconnection to God's order
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🔥 Radical practice from this:
✔️ No illusion of "one-time conversion = forever clean"
✔️ Instead:
➡️ Daily self-examination
➡️ Daily dying to the old
➡️ Constant alignment with Christ
➡️ Recognition: Human nature remains endangered — only God's grace protects.
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Amen .
Picture from: “ A Christian Theology of Death and Life Eternal” by Peter C. Phan.
