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There is something funny about this - The Law - makes good-enough impossible. I LOVE the term, "Celebratory failurism". Failure makes God give us more Grace. "God does not exhort us to obey just to teach us that we cannot hope to obey." That's the way politicians talk. Oh, the irony. He exhorts us to obey to teach us that, by grace, we can obey, and therein lies hope. These quotes had to be written by someone who bows to the Patriarchy. What would this sound like if it was written by someone who embraces women being in charge of the world? Obedience is an authoritative word. "My way or the highway." Someone asked me once when I was raising 2 teenage boys on my own, why I didn't ground them for punishment. I furrowed my brow and said, "If I'm working 3 jobs, who's going to be home to make sure they stay grounded?" I celebrated my motherly failures daily.

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You aren’t wrong about the theological perspective of the quote’s author. But I do love what you say of “by grace we can obey and therein lies hope”. that’ll preach!

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