Greetings, fellow-believers. Martin Zender here, sharing with you a newsletter I wrote in May of 2016. This is Part 87 of the Romans Series. You are going to love this—if I may be so bold. In this newsletter, I explain God's use of the figure of speech known as "Condescension," where God comes across as a human being in order to communicate and help His human creation. Many people don't know about this figure of speech. They think God is really like this.

 

A "figure of speech," by the way, is something that is not literally true, but that illustrates a literal truth. For instance, when Jesus held up a piece of bread at the last supper and said, "This is my body," He didn't mean it literally. Is a piece of bread His body? Of course not. But right after He said this He broke the bread, explaining that His body would be broken for the sake of the nourishment of the world. 

 

The overall purpose of this ZWTF is to illustrate how God is able to blame and judge stubborn people whom He made stubborn. It's not that God is truly angry with these people (God is love), but that He sends judgments in order to teach humans lessons. Some humans need harder lessons than others, because, although God has locked up all together in stubbornness (Romans 11:32), He unlocks some people from this stubbornness early (we call these people, "believers") in order to have fun with them by watching them revel in revelation and skip judgment altogether. These people—the ones who get unlocked early—ought to be some of the happiest people on Earth, because they escape judgment and get to learn some incredibly high things about God, such as that He's not really the stammering, frustrated Deity Who condescends to speak to His creatures, but that He is actually the Lord of all, operating all things in accord with the counsel of His own will (Ephesians 1:11). Many people never get to this revelation, because they trip at the figure of speech. 

 

I hope that this newsletter will deliver these poor people from their ignorance. YOU have already been delivered, dear reader, so please share this newsletter with your friends after you read it again yourselves (assuming you read it back in 2016) and realize how freaking great it is. 

 

Humbly yours from the Floridan peninsula, 

 

Martin