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The motive Jiang says cuts Jephthah off from God: not love, not faith, but the desire to win and possess power in the world.
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worldly power
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "the really hard to win battle and he wanted god to really help him you wanted power yeah you understand"
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Jiang says the concrete thing that moved Jephthah away from God was the desire for worldly power, and that the connection to God is lost when power becomes the object of will.
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"the really hard to win battle and he wanted god to really help him you wanted power yeah you understand"
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"...from god you understand when you want power when you want worldly power that's what severes connection to god you've always had it but..."
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Paradise first appears as receptivity rather than rank, then the lecture widens into vows, memory, resurrection, original sin, and Jiang's culminating wager that God created humanity because perfection alone cannot imagine.
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