Fighting ourselves
Looyenga uses the biological reality of the immune system—a divinely designed defense mechanism that can cause harm if uncontrolled—as an analogy for Christian conflict and self-destructiveness. Drawing from Galatians 5:14-15, the article explores how believers, like immune cells, must be properly directed toward external threats rather than consuming one another, illustrating practical lessons about sanctification and the Christian life.
"For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another." Galatians 5:14-15 In the last article of this brief, two-part series, (December 15, 2018, p. 139) we considered the immune system with which God has equipped our bodies to fight infection. This marvelous component of our bodies is designed as a means to protect us from the host of microbes -- viruses,...
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