To Teach Them War (10): Knowing War’s Origin: In Man’s Fall
This article, part of a series on spiritual warfare, expounds on the doctrine of total depravity as the theological foundation for understanding the origin of war against God and His kingdom. Through vivid illustration and biblical exegesis of Jeremiah 17:9, Huizinga demonstrates how the corruption of human nature after Adam's fall explains mankind's fundamental enmity with God and the necessity of defending this truth against worldly denial.
Previous article in this series: April 1, 2016, p. 303. "The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who can know it?" Jeremiah 17:9 Sometimes the biology teacher places a dead animal's organ on the lab table for dissection, and some students squirm and gasp. Or the doctor pulls up an image on the screen showing the break or the tumor, and the patient tucks his head, covers his eyes, and gasps. With the words of Jeremiah 17:9, God removes from natural man his heart and...
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