Therefore, since Christ suffered as a human, you should also arm yourselves with his way of thinking. This is because whoever suffers is finished with sin. As a result, they don’t live the rest of their human lives in ways determined by human desires but in ways determined by God’s will. You have wasted enough time doing what unbelievers desire—living in their unrestrained immorality and lust, their drunkenness and excessive feasting and wild parties, and their forbidden worship of idols. They think it’s strange that you don’t join in these activities with the same flood of unrestrained wickedness. So they slander you. They will have to reckon with the one who is ready to judge the living and the dead. Indeed, this is the reason the good news was also preached to the dead. This happened so that, although they were judged as humans according to human standards, they could live by the Spirit according to divine standards. (1 Peter 4:1-6, CEB)
What are divine standards?
No human desires?
And just where do human desires come from?
We are all created in the image of God, and our emotions are God’s emotions, so I would think that our desires are God’s desires.
God made everything, and when God saw it, it was good.
And then we come in and take it to the extreme, and make something good, a bad thing.
So what are divine standards?
Love. When our desires show love for others and not just self.
Love is the divine standard.
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