Matt 10:34-36; Do not think that I came to bring peace on the earth; I did not come to bring peace, but a sword. "For I came to SET A MAN AGAINST HIS FATHER, AND A DAUGHTER AGAINST HER MOTHER, AND A DAUGHTER-IN-LAW AGAINST HER MOTHER-IN-LAW; and A MAN'S ENEMIES WILL BE THE MEMBERS OF HIS HOUSEHOLD.
We are in a study of Satan's cosmic system that is a system of thinking that is the basis of the thinking of the entire human race that is comprised of lies and deceit in their natural soulish state apart from God in the darkness of spiritual death in the cosmic system. 1Cor 2:14;
Last time we noted the story of the person who has pulled the arrogance pin of the grenade and is suffering the consequences of living the fragmented life inside cosmic one in 2Tim 3:2-7;
Believers operating in the fragmented life never use the omnipotence of God because "they have rejected God's power." They have rejected God's grace policy and His Word of truth so they are locked into the arrogant demonic thinking of cosmic one.
Instead of taking advantage of God's grace provision of rebound they try to compensate for their fragmentation with every kind of false doctrine and false concept to the exclusion of God, His policy of grace, and His Word of truth.
They give lip service to God but because they are fragmented they reject his mandate to deploy God's grace in rebound that is the only path to recovery so they end up with locked in implacable negative volition.
"Always learning, but never able to come to the epignosis knowledge of truth" means that a fragmented life can be exposed to doctrine, but the exposure does no good because fragmentation resists metabolization.
Without metabolization of doctrine under the filling ministry of God the Holy Spirit, there is no momentum in the Christian life because without rebound there is no spiritual life.
Under pressure, the motivational arrogance of cosmic one becomes the functional arrogance of negative volition, authority arrogance, self-righteous arrogance, sexual arrogance...
Criminal arrogance, psychotic arrogance, the drive toward unreality, the arrogance of unhappiness from subjective preoccupation with self, iconoclastic arrogance from subjective preoccupation with others, rational (intellectual) and irrational (emotional) arrogance, the arrogance of Christian service, and client nation arrogance.
Losers fragment their own life with arrogance. Cosmic involvement and the various stages of reversionism, including emotional revolt of the soul, blackout of the soul, and scar tissue of the soul comprise the fragments of the grenade.
The fragmented life is a tragedy because God has provided so much protection to prevent believers from becoming losers by fragging themselves.
The loser is by definition a person who fails to execute the protocol plan of God because of negative volition toward Bible doctrine. The Church Age believer whose life is fragmented is ignorant of God's grace provision for the execution of God's plan, purpose, and will for the Church.
There are at least five areas of ignorance that prolong and perpetuate the fragmented life. This results in the believer practicing his own tragic flaw, and fragmenting and polarizing into factions with other believers who are operating under the same category of arrogance.
This is explained in Rom 7:1-25; The areas of ignorance include ignorance of the portfolio of invisible assets, ignorance of the mechanics for executing the protocol plan, ignorance of the unique characteristics of the Church Age.