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This is a dynamic addition to our weekly classes where you the students get to discuss with each other ideas, insights and questions that come up after reading The Screwtape Letters each week. This will also allow me to post changes to class schedules and lecture notes. Please feel free to ask, reply, state ideas or thoughts, prayers on this site set up just for you! I ask that your comments be "ABC" About the subject and clear in thought, Brief, and Christ Centered.
Uncle Screwtape
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To help you all with this, I want to offer up Leviticus 26:12 "And I will walk among you, and will be your God, and you shall be my people". For the New Testement, please look to the whole idea of incarnational God. or to come in the flesh, or in Greek "sarks", this is at the heart of this question I think.
The 'abominable advantage' that God has over satan is that God has come in human form, where satan has only been a spiritual being. This is an advantage to Christians I think for many reasons, some of which are it gave us a window to God. Through Jesus we get to know God and His ways through example, an example that shows us how we should live out our lives. Another advantage is Jesus experienced what we experience as human beings, as it says in Hebrews He "shared our humanity" and understands us, and "Because he himself suffered when he was tempted, he is able to help those who are being tempted." Whereas satan can jab and tempt us, through Jesus we have the power over satan to resist tempatation, to ask for help through the power of prayer, and to defeat satan and his demons in both life and death.
God's "abominable advantage" is His ability to give spirit the gift human form.
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