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The answer is that the antithesis is a negative term with positive implications. When we speak of the antithesis, we mean exactly that we stand for the thesis and against the antithesis. This truth is called by its negative name for two reasons. First, because we live in the sin-cursed and wicked wo
Antithesis is a very important word to remember. What is meant by it is even more important. And its application to our lives is of immeasurable importance. You will not find the word itself in the Bible, but the idea runs as an unmistakable thread throughout the Scriptures. The word is derived from
For most believers raised in con- servative Reformed churches, the term antithesis is probably quite familiar. This is the word we use to express the dramatic separation between God’s purposes and people and those of the forces who are spiritually aligned with Satan and the world. The differences be
The antithesis is the “spiritual separation and warfare that God himself has placed between his holy people and the unholy world of men and women outside of Jesus Christ.”[2] The antithesis is an institution of God, found in Genesis 3:15, “And I will put enmity between thee and the woman and between
There were the “conservatives” who maintained the truth of the antithesis between the church and the world and there were the “liberals” who asserted a “synthesis” between the two. The word ‘antithesis’, according to the dictionary, means “a direct opposite.” There is a thesis, a reality, and there
Here is a diagram of the antithesis. What is the antithesis? It means that for each child of God, the Word of God supplies a rule of life that separates the Christian from the ungodly. Each Christian is called to live this life of antithesis, life of distinction. Everything that you say must iden
I. The Idea of the Antithesis — The antithesis refers to the separation and opposition between darkness and light, believer and unbeliever, church and world. A. Look up and meditate on the following verses. How do these verses bring out the truth of the antithesis? Amos 3:3 Ephesians 5:11 James 1:
In the initial article on the subject of the antithesis, we defined it as the sharp and absolute spiritual distinction between between sin and grace, light and darkness, truth and lie, elect and reprobate, God and Satan, Christ and antichrist, believers and unbelievers. We emphasized that it is a sp