HIS LIGHT IN YOUR LIFE
13/08/24 10:08
What is God like? God is like Jesus Christ because God is Jesus Christ. To see Jesus is to see our Father. It is also to see our real selves. To know Jesus as the Christ of God is to know ourselves and the ability to get a grip on real life. ‘In Him is life and that life is the light of all’ is the beginning of our ability to see through false versions of ‘common sense,’ conspiracy theories and varieties of agnosticism, atheism and gnostic Christianity. Christ incarnated in our being enables us to separate genuine holiness from habit.
Thomas Torrance wrote, “This humanity of Christ in its stark actuality is essential to God's self-revelation. In Jesus Christ, God's truth has become actual for us in space and time.” An revealed in your inner man in you.
“Jesus Christ is the truth, the mystery in whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge, and from whose fullness we may all receive. The astounding thing is that the eternal Word by whom all things were created became a creature, became man, certainly without ceasing to be that eternal Word, and therefore his very creatureliness constitutes the act of revelation, and is the guarantee that revelation is here within creation and accessible to human creatures.” This revelation is in you in the person of the incarnated Jesus, Father and Holy Spirit.
“It is the guarantee that God's revelation is revelation to creaturely humanity, in the language and life of man, man who is involved within the limitations of time and space, and who cannot escape from them, who can know only within them, within time and history. Because the eternal has become temporal, men and women can know the eternal truth in creaturely temporal form, the eternal truth in time. The historical humanity of Jesus is the guarantee that within the relativities and contingencies of our historical human existence, revelation is reality, and is actuality accessible to us at our level.”
Because God is christ who is also a human being he can speak by the Spirit into your inner person in the way best suited to you, since Jesus knows you better than you know yourself.
(1)Thomas Torrance. The Incarnation. 185/186
Thomas Torrance wrote, “This humanity of Christ in its stark actuality is essential to God's self-revelation. In Jesus Christ, God's truth has become actual for us in space and time.” An revealed in your inner man in you.
“Jesus Christ is the truth, the mystery in whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge, and from whose fullness we may all receive. The astounding thing is that the eternal Word by whom all things were created became a creature, became man, certainly without ceasing to be that eternal Word, and therefore his very creatureliness constitutes the act of revelation, and is the guarantee that revelation is here within creation and accessible to human creatures.” This revelation is in you in the person of the incarnated Jesus, Father and Holy Spirit.
“It is the guarantee that God's revelation is revelation to creaturely humanity, in the language and life of man, man who is involved within the limitations of time and space, and who cannot escape from them, who can know only within them, within time and history. Because the eternal has become temporal, men and women can know the eternal truth in creaturely temporal form, the eternal truth in time. The historical humanity of Jesus is the guarantee that within the relativities and contingencies of our historical human existence, revelation is reality, and is actuality accessible to us at our level.”
Because God is christ who is also a human being he can speak by the Spirit into your inner person in the way best suited to you, since Jesus knows you better than you know yourself.
(1)Thomas Torrance. The Incarnation. 185/186
