Augustine's contrast between living by God's truth and living by human nature or one's own standard, which Jiang reads as a demand for self-negation.
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Standard of God
Augustine's contrast between living by God's truth and living by human nature or one's own standard, which Jiang reads as a demand for self-negation.
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"...lives by the standard of man and not by the standard of God he is like the devil all right"
"think about this when you choose to follow your nature you are like the devil there's only by negating yourself there's only by denying..."
"...imagination, when we use our intuition, and not by the standard of God. The standard of God is to submit to him, to obey..."
"...lives by the standard of man and not by the standard of God, he is like the devil. Okay? And the idea here is..."
"...man lives by the center of man not by the standard of God he is like the devil okay guys we are in God..."
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