GODLINESS BY CHRIST OUR LIFE
06/04/23 06:36
Believers who desire to be Godly desire a good thing. But true Godliness is not pious or religious. It is not pre-occupied with sexual morality and as a kingdom, it is concerned with family, society, nation and earth. Godliness is holistic.
RECREATION OF SONS/DAUGHTERS
Godliness involves transformation of the self into the true man/true woman in Jesus Christ. This is not gained by ticking boxes or following a rule book. It happens as we agree with Christ that He is our life; that Jesus is our at-one-ment with God, self and other people. True Godliness happens from the mediation of Christ our life. It is holistic and comprehensive and as such resistant to formulation and self-made grace/contract. The taking on of the divine nature is holistic. Christ comes in our flesh for us and to be us. We become the expression of His Person by the Spirit alive in our flesh.
God may be discerned in Country but He lives in you.
Myk Habets following Thomas Torrance observes that it is, “a central feature of Calvin’s theology, that the question of justification is essentially an aspect of the larger question of humanity’s relation to God in Christ, and these need not be discussed exclusively in terms of the category of justification. [We are more than justified]
NOT JUST ABOUT SIN
“McGrath credits Calvin for overcoming this weakness inherent in Lutheranism and notes that this is how Scottish theology from Knox to Torrance has generally understood it. The result of including theosis in a Reformed soteriology .. is that salvation is viewed in quite different terms. No longer is salvation thought of as exclusively salvation from sin, alienation, and hostility, although those themes are clearly part of any biblical soteriology.
MADE SONS/DAUGHTERS IN SPIRIT AND TRUTH
Instead, union, communion and participation are more meaningfully incorporated. A retrospective focus is replaced with a prospective one without losing the strengths of the former. The ultimate goal of salvation is no longer to appease the wrath of an angry God but to attain to participation in the divine life through the Son by the Holy Spirit.”
Theosis, involves the belief that through union with God, humans can become partakers of the divine nature and share in God’s eternal life. The ultimate realisation of theosis is not just to imitate God but to become one with God.
(1) Myk Habets. Theosis in the Theology of Thomas Torrance. P 126
RECREATION OF SONS/DAUGHTERS
Godliness involves transformation of the self into the true man/true woman in Jesus Christ. This is not gained by ticking boxes or following a rule book. It happens as we agree with Christ that He is our life; that Jesus is our at-one-ment with God, self and other people. True Godliness happens from the mediation of Christ our life. It is holistic and comprehensive and as such resistant to formulation and self-made grace/contract. The taking on of the divine nature is holistic. Christ comes in our flesh for us and to be us. We become the expression of His Person by the Spirit alive in our flesh.
God may be discerned in Country but He lives in you.
Myk Habets following Thomas Torrance observes that it is, “a central feature of Calvin’s theology, that the question of justification is essentially an aspect of the larger question of humanity’s relation to God in Christ, and these need not be discussed exclusively in terms of the category of justification. [We are more than justified]
NOT JUST ABOUT SIN
“McGrath credits Calvin for overcoming this weakness inherent in Lutheranism and notes that this is how Scottish theology from Knox to Torrance has generally understood it. The result of including theosis in a Reformed soteriology .. is that salvation is viewed in quite different terms. No longer is salvation thought of as exclusively salvation from sin, alienation, and hostility, although those themes are clearly part of any biblical soteriology.
MADE SONS/DAUGHTERS IN SPIRIT AND TRUTH
Instead, union, communion and participation are more meaningfully incorporated. A retrospective focus is replaced with a prospective one without losing the strengths of the former. The ultimate goal of salvation is no longer to appease the wrath of an angry God but to attain to participation in the divine life through the Son by the Holy Spirit.”
Theosis, involves the belief that through union with God, humans can become partakers of the divine nature and share in God’s eternal life. The ultimate realisation of theosis is not just to imitate God but to become one with God.
(1) Myk Habets. Theosis in the Theology of Thomas Torrance. P 126
