BETTER THAN BITS AND PIECES OF LIFE
20/01/23 07:16
John the Baptist made a straight way for the Christ.
There are communities that embody crooked notions of justification and sanctification. Separationism is the foundation of legalism and all law/contractual constructions of the gospel. Paul characterised ‘gospels’ of this kind as ‘no gospel at all.’
BITS OF GOOD AND EVIL
Such foundationalism sees Christianity as bits and pieces of righteousness versus lumps and fragments of unrighteousness. It’s a construction in the contextual frame of the knowledge of good and evil and its separationist imagination. Torrance is right in his belief that epistemology grows out of our notion of being.
YOUR FRAME
Soteriology construed from the ground of oneness with God is different to the bits and pieces that we may strive to make coalesce in the separationism of the frame of a Christian version of the knowledge of good and evil. The implication of this is that,
“This notion of justification as a legal fulfilling of the contractual requirement of the covenant in respect of God’s eternal law, rather than as a gracious manifestation of the faithfulness of God embodied in the person of Christ, [has] a moralising effect upon the life and theology of the Kirk, which was particularly evident in the overwhelming attention given to the law, in comparison to the Gospel.” (1)
MUFFLED GOSPEL
Contractual Christian living muffles our direct union with God and facilitates the delusion of self-made grace with its formulaic agenda of virtues and self-serving notions of brand validation. In short it muffles us, muffles the real gospel and retards new creation life. Compared to this Christ our life relies on Christ incarnated in our persons and the being of the church. Here the foundation is oneness with God and communion with each other.
THE WAY AND THE LIFE
This is the spiritual foundation of better and a healed self, better marriages, improved family life and genuine community in the Church. ‘Community’ does not happen just because we have meetings. It happens where Christ has freed us from all that prevents us touching other people’s lives.
(1)Quoting Thomas Torrance in Radcliff, Alexandra S.. The Claim of Humanity in Christ: Salvation and Sanctification in the Theology of T. F. and J. B. Torrance (Princeton Theological Monograph Series Book 222) (p. 66). Pickwick Publications, an Imprint of Wipf and Stock Publishers. Kindle Edition.
John the Baptist made a straight way for the Christ.
There are communities that embody crooked notions of justification and sanctification. Separationism is the foundation of legalism and all law/contractual constructions of the gospel. Paul characterised ‘gospels’ of this kind as ‘no gospel at all.’
BITS OF GOOD AND EVIL
Such foundationalism sees Christianity as bits and pieces of righteousness versus lumps and fragments of unrighteousness. It’s a construction in the contextual frame of the knowledge of good and evil and its separationist imagination. Torrance is right in his belief that epistemology grows out of our notion of being.
YOUR FRAME
Soteriology construed from the ground of oneness with God is different to the bits and pieces that we may strive to make coalesce in the separationism of the frame of a Christian version of the knowledge of good and evil. The implication of this is that,
“This notion of justification as a legal fulfilling of the contractual requirement of the covenant in respect of God’s eternal law, rather than as a gracious manifestation of the faithfulness of God embodied in the person of Christ, [has] a moralising effect upon the life and theology of the Kirk, which was particularly evident in the overwhelming attention given to the law, in comparison to the Gospel.” (1)
MUFFLED GOSPEL
Contractual Christian living muffles our direct union with God and facilitates the delusion of self-made grace with its formulaic agenda of virtues and self-serving notions of brand validation. In short it muffles us, muffles the real gospel and retards new creation life. Compared to this Christ our life relies on Christ incarnated in our persons and the being of the church. Here the foundation is oneness with God and communion with each other.
THE WAY AND THE LIFE
This is the spiritual foundation of better and a healed self, better marriages, improved family life and genuine community in the Church. ‘Community’ does not happen just because we have meetings. It happens where Christ has freed us from all that prevents us touching other people’s lives.
(1)Quoting Thomas Torrance in Radcliff, Alexandra S.. The Claim of Humanity in Christ: Salvation and Sanctification in the Theology of T. F. and J. B. Torrance (Princeton Theological Monograph Series Book 222) (p. 66). Pickwick Publications, an Imprint of Wipf and Stock Publishers. Kindle Edition.
There are communities that embody crooked notions of justification and sanctification. Separationism is the foundation of legalism and all law/contractual constructions of the gospel. Paul characterised ‘gospels’ of this kind as ‘no gospel at all.’
BITS OF GOOD AND EVIL
Such foundationalism sees Christianity as bits and pieces of righteousness versus lumps and fragments of unrighteousness. It’s a construction in the contextual frame of the knowledge of good and evil and its separationist imagination. Torrance is right in his belief that epistemology grows out of our notion of being.
YOUR FRAME
Soteriology construed from the ground of oneness with God is different to the bits and pieces that we may strive to make coalesce in the separationism of the frame of a Christian version of the knowledge of good and evil. The implication of this is that,
“This notion of justification as a legal fulfilling of the contractual requirement of the covenant in respect of God’s eternal law, rather than as a gracious manifestation of the faithfulness of God embodied in the person of Christ, [has] a moralising effect upon the life and theology of the Kirk, which was particularly evident in the overwhelming attention given to the law, in comparison to the Gospel.” (1)
MUFFLED GOSPEL
Contractual Christian living muffles our direct union with God and facilitates the delusion of self-made grace with its formulaic agenda of virtues and self-serving notions of brand validation. In short it muffles us, muffles the real gospel and retards new creation life. Compared to this Christ our life relies on Christ incarnated in our persons and the being of the church. Here the foundation is oneness with God and communion with each other.
THE WAY AND THE LIFE
This is the spiritual foundation of better and a healed self, better marriages, improved family life and genuine community in the Church. ‘Community’ does not happen just because we have meetings. It happens where Christ has freed us from all that prevents us touching other people’s lives.
(1)Quoting Thomas Torrance in Radcliff, Alexandra S.. The Claim of Humanity in Christ: Salvation and Sanctification in the Theology of T. F. and J. B. Torrance (Princeton Theological Monograph Series Book 222) (p. 66). Pickwick Publications, an Imprint of Wipf and Stock Publishers. Kindle Edition.
John the Baptist made a straight way for the Christ.
There are communities that embody crooked notions of justification and sanctification. Separationism is the foundation of legalism and all law/contractual constructions of the gospel. Paul characterised ‘gospels’ of this kind as ‘no gospel at all.’
BITS OF GOOD AND EVIL
Such foundationalism sees Christianity as bits and pieces of righteousness versus lumps and fragments of unrighteousness. It’s a construction in the contextual frame of the knowledge of good and evil and its separationist imagination. Torrance is right in his belief that epistemology grows out of our notion of being.
YOUR FRAME
Soteriology construed from the ground of oneness with God is different to the bits and pieces that we may strive to make coalesce in the separationism of the frame of a Christian version of the knowledge of good and evil. The implication of this is that,
“This notion of justification as a legal fulfilling of the contractual requirement of the covenant in respect of God’s eternal law, rather than as a gracious manifestation of the faithfulness of God embodied in the person of Christ, [has] a moralising effect upon the life and theology of the Kirk, which was particularly evident in the overwhelming attention given to the law, in comparison to the Gospel.” (1)
MUFFLED GOSPEL
Contractual Christian living muffles our direct union with God and facilitates the delusion of self-made grace with its formulaic agenda of virtues and self-serving notions of brand validation. In short it muffles us, muffles the real gospel and retards new creation life. Compared to this Christ our life relies on Christ incarnated in our persons and the being of the church. Here the foundation is oneness with God and communion with each other.
THE WAY AND THE LIFE
This is the spiritual foundation of better and a healed self, better marriages, improved family life and genuine community in the Church. ‘Community’ does not happen just because we have meetings. It happens where Christ has freed us from all that prevents us touching other people’s lives.
(1)Quoting Thomas Torrance in Radcliff, Alexandra S.. The Claim of Humanity in Christ: Salvation and Sanctification in the Theology of T. F. and J. B. Torrance (Princeton Theological Monograph Series Book 222) (p. 66). Pickwick Publications, an Imprint of Wipf and Stock Publishers. Kindle Edition.
