Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.But Paul says:
To the pure, all things are pure, but to the defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure; but both their minds and their consciences are defiled.The gift may be "good" and "perfect," but I am not. The Father may not change, but I do. How can a bad man get any good out of anything?
Objectively, the gift are good. Subjectively, I am bad. This would be the end of the story, but for the normative word of God, which reconciles the two:
"What God has made clean, do not call common."God's imperative presents me with a choice--I can be impure, unbelieving, and disobedient, or I can step into His universe full of good gifts.
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