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It is God-centered, not man-centered.

Yup, that's where the joy is. You can see it on this thread. The anger is coming from the proponents of "man-centered" theology.

You're right. It's a paradox, but that is the only path to true Christian joy. It leaves no one able to boast in anything but Christ alone.

Jer. 9:24, "but let him who boasts boast of this, that he understands and knows Me, that I am the LORD who exercises lovingkindness, justice and righteousness on earth; for I delight in these things," declares the LORD."

Psalm 20:7 Some boast in chariots and some in horses, But we will boast in the name of the LORD, our God.

1 Corinthians 1:31 so that, just as it is written, "LET HIM WHO BOASTS, BOAST IN THE LORD."

2 Corinthians 10:17 But HE WHO BOASTS IS TO BOAST IN THE LORD.

Galatians 6:14 But may it never be that I would boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.