ALL OF LIFE KINGDOM LIFE
21/02/24 07:40
God is who God is according to His own Being. I AM is God in spirit and truth according to Himself. God is not a bunch of assorted beasts as in Egypt. Neither is God a construction of ours helped by supposed additional revelation from imagined prophetic figures of the 19th century. God is three and is revealed to us in the person of Jesus Christ who is our truth and the life as Himself. God is mystery but God is not something different to Jesus Christ. God come in the flesh is Jesus of Nazareth and christ come in you makes you a son/daughter of God in actuality, aka spirit and truth.
GOD IS REVEALED BY THE SPIRIT, IN THE BIBLE AND THE UNIVERSAL CHURCH
If God is not like a hippopotamus as in Egypt or multiplier of human sacrifice as revealed to Abram/Isaac and the supplied sheep, God is similarly not an expression of misguided Christianity or Christian cults. This is to say God is not a legalised god as in a legalised christ/gospel, nor is Christ a likeness to a Great Architect as in Masonic thought. Christ is Himself being all God and all man and an ultimate expression of personhood as a member of the trinity. The Christ of God is who God is and who we are becoming.
“ The plain fact is, as Basil insisted, that if the Son were only a creature, mankind would be without any revelation of God whatsoever. In that case the Church would be left with no more than some kind of human self-understanding projected into God from a centre in itself and passed off as 'revelation.
“As Athanasius frequently pointed out, that was the kind of 'revelation' heretics trafficked in, something they devised in accordance with their subjective fantasies, rather than something which they received from beyond themselves and thought out in accordance with the objective truth of God.
“If it is not with God himself in his own being that we have to do in revelation, then it is not with theologia but mythologia, not with theology but mythology, that we are concerned.
“Moreover, if Christ is detached from God, then he himself is no longer central to the substance of the Gospel, but is only a transient variable representation of God, a detached symbolic image and no more. And inevitably, as Arius claimed, there would be 'many words', and even 'myriads' of conceptions of God.” (1)
Moralistic/legalistic sin rants against sexual sin by Christian leaders purvey a narrow and conveniently blind view of sin and godliness. They obscure the fact that the solution to human degradation is not a better applied knowledge of the knowledge of good and evil, aka legalism - but Christ Himself as our grace and transformation. The Kingdom of God is not about sin management as many Believers suppose. It’s about life, love and love by inclusion in the Communion that is God - thanks to the Living Way of Jesus Christ,
GOD IS REVEALED BY THE SPIRIT, IN THE BIBLE AND THE UNIVERSAL CHURCH
If God is not like a hippopotamus as in Egypt or multiplier of human sacrifice as revealed to Abram/Isaac and the supplied sheep, God is similarly not an expression of misguided Christianity or Christian cults. This is to say God is not a legalised god as in a legalised christ/gospel, nor is Christ a likeness to a Great Architect as in Masonic thought. Christ is Himself being all God and all man and an ultimate expression of personhood as a member of the trinity. The Christ of God is who God is and who we are becoming.
“ The plain fact is, as Basil insisted, that if the Son were only a creature, mankind would be without any revelation of God whatsoever. In that case the Church would be left with no more than some kind of human self-understanding projected into God from a centre in itself and passed off as 'revelation.
“As Athanasius frequently pointed out, that was the kind of 'revelation' heretics trafficked in, something they devised in accordance with their subjective fantasies, rather than something which they received from beyond themselves and thought out in accordance with the objective truth of God.
“If it is not with God himself in his own being that we have to do in revelation, then it is not with theologia but mythologia, not with theology but mythology, that we are concerned.
“Moreover, if Christ is detached from God, then he himself is no longer central to the substance of the Gospel, but is only a transient variable representation of God, a detached symbolic image and no more. And inevitably, as Arius claimed, there would be 'many words', and even 'myriads' of conceptions of God.” (1)
Moralistic/legalistic sin rants against sexual sin by Christian leaders purvey a narrow and conveniently blind view of sin and godliness. They obscure the fact that the solution to human degradation is not a better applied knowledge of the knowledge of good and evil, aka legalism - but Christ Himself as our grace and transformation. The Kingdom of God is not about sin management as many Believers suppose. It’s about life, love and love by inclusion in the Communion that is God - thanks to the Living Way of Jesus Christ,
