Spir Dynamics 500 10/12/94
A. Definition.
1. An erroneous premise means a false conclusion.
2. False doctrine in a premise means false doctrine in a solution conclusion. For example, errors related to the premise of rebound as a problem solving device results in a false conclusion.
a. For an example see the Doctrine of the Evil Obsession, where believers in Corinth added unrealistic expectation to role model arrogance, followed by the feet of clay syndrome and iconoclastic arrogance regarding Paul.
b. The function of the arrogance skills not only resulted in one sin added to another sin, but resulted in the perpetual carnality of the erroneous premise.
c. Their erroneous premise in rebound inserts emotion (like “godly sorrow” or penitence or distress or regret or remorse, etc.) Their erroneous premise was that rebound was related to their emotions. You perpetuate carnality when you add emotion to a divine solution. Hence, no rebound occurs, only perpetual carnality, resulting in incompetent problem solving.
d. You cannot solve the problems of sin by adding a sin.
3. A false conclusion results in perpetual carnality, the status quo of the loser believer. This is why the divine solution is the only solution, and the human solution is no solution.
B. The Erroneous Conclusion Related to Rebound.
1. 1 Jn 1:9, “If we acknowledge our sins, He is faithful and righteous with the result that He forgives us our sins and purifies us from all wrongdoing.”
a. The premise is the protasis of a Greek third class conditional sentence. The premise is “If we acknowledge our sins.” The conclusion is the apodosis of this sentence “He is faithful and righteous with the result that He forgives us our sins and purifies us from all wrongdoing.”
b. The key Greek word is HOMOLOGEO, which means “to name, to cite, to acknowledge” something, and there is no emotional connotation in this verb.
c. God is always faithful and forgives any believer who names his sin. God never does not forgive, even if you have to name that sin a thousand times. His righteousness is never compromised by forgiving and purifying us.
d. God not only forgives us our known sins which we acknowledge, but purifies us from all of our unknown sins (wrongdoing).
2. The false premise is represented by 2 Cor 7:8-10, “Because if I also offended you by my letter [and I did], I do not regret it; even though I did regret it (for I see that the letter offended you, but only for a while), now I rejoice, not because you were distressed, but because you were distressed resulting in a decision; for you were distressed as God would have it, so that you might not suffer loss of anything because of us. For distress as God would have it [divine discipline] produces a decision resulting in deliverance [rebound] devoid of emotion; but the distress of the world brings about death [the sin unto death].”
a. Anguish or “being distressed as God would have it” is the law of volitional responsibility—whatever a person sows that will he also reap—and divine discipline.
b. Remorse is not a part of rebound.
c. The true premise includes the Greek word METANOIA, which means a change in your thinking and has nothing to do with emotion. Emotion never has anything to do with a divine solution. The true premise includes the Greek word SOTERIA, which means deliverance. The true premise includes the Greek word AMETAMELETOS, which means “devoid of emotion.” Thinking and deliverance devoid of emotion adds up to HOMOLOGEO, the Greek word of 1 Jn 1:9, to acknowledge our sins to God, devoid of emotion.
3. When you simply name your sins to God without adding any emotion as a part of an erroneous premise, then God forgives us and purifies us.
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