OUT OF THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOOD AND EVIL
25/04/23 07:55
Jesus made a way out of the knowledge of good and evil. Satan devised a way of keeping people in it.
The notion of God as the ‘Unmoved Mover’ is as non-trinitarian as you can get. Denial of the trinitarian nature of God is associated with legalism, the abstract god of abstraction. A sage wrote, “To apprehend the new, old ways of apprehension must be left behind,” One might say anti-trinitarian theology is a dead branch of the Latin heresy*. Others may describe it as the effect of the antichrist spirit.
BELONGING IN CHRIST
Our inclusion in the Communion that is the trinity – which is to say our inclusion and belonging in God is the issue of salvation, of grace and a Godly life. It’s not moralism and not the law that is the crux. Should we have been persuaded that the law is the core issue we will have been inveigled into a gospel that is a form of the knowledge of good and evil. It’s sad that legalistic religious hacks take it upon themselves to preach non-gospel sermons on judgement.
The law of the Spirit of life is not a thing of ‘the letter that kills’ - i.e. the knowledge of good and evil. The law of the Spirit of life is the trinity mediated to us by the Christ of God. By Christ we are included in the communion that is God. Our riches are oneness with God.
GOD-STYLE UNION
James Torrance asserts that, “This unique relationship [in the trinity] is described as one of mutual love, mutual self-giving , mutual testifying, mutual glorifying. Indeed there is a oneness of mind between the Father and the Son, revealed supremely in the cross, “to bring many sons to glory” (Heb 2:10), “that we might receive the adoption of sons” (Gal 4:5ff.)—that we might be drawn by the Spirit into that unique life of shared intimate communion. This is why Julian of Norwich could exclaim: “When I saw the Cross I saw the Trinity. . . Where Jesus appears, the blessed Trinity is understood . . . The Trinity filled my heart full of the greatest joy, and I understood that it will be so in heaven without end.”
The trinitarian union of oneness in diversity is the union Christ has given us with God.
We do well to consider what we have been taught; to ascertain whether we have received a diminished gospel or a gospel that is ‘no gospel at all’. The Gospel of Jesus and Paul is rich and powerful, never rubbish/dung. It makes us alive in the adventure of life with Christ.
*A mode of thinking that separates Christ’s person from His work.
The notion of God as the ‘Unmoved Mover’ is as non-trinitarian as you can get. Denial of the trinitarian nature of God is associated with legalism, the abstract god of abstraction. A sage wrote, “To apprehend the new, old ways of apprehension must be left behind,” One might say anti-trinitarian theology is a dead branch of the Latin heresy*. Others may describe it as the effect of the antichrist spirit.
BELONGING IN CHRIST
Our inclusion in the Communion that is the trinity – which is to say our inclusion and belonging in God is the issue of salvation, of grace and a Godly life. It’s not moralism and not the law that is the crux. Should we have been persuaded that the law is the core issue we will have been inveigled into a gospel that is a form of the knowledge of good and evil. It’s sad that legalistic religious hacks take it upon themselves to preach non-gospel sermons on judgement.
The law of the Spirit of life is not a thing of ‘the letter that kills’ - i.e. the knowledge of good and evil. The law of the Spirit of life is the trinity mediated to us by the Christ of God. By Christ we are included in the communion that is God. Our riches are oneness with God.
GOD-STYLE UNION
James Torrance asserts that, “This unique relationship [in the trinity] is described as one of mutual love, mutual self-giving , mutual testifying, mutual glorifying. Indeed there is a oneness of mind between the Father and the Son, revealed supremely in the cross, “to bring many sons to glory” (Heb 2:10), “that we might receive the adoption of sons” (Gal 4:5ff.)—that we might be drawn by the Spirit into that unique life of shared intimate communion. This is why Julian of Norwich could exclaim: “When I saw the Cross I saw the Trinity. . . Where Jesus appears, the blessed Trinity is understood . . . The Trinity filled my heart full of the greatest joy, and I understood that it will be so in heaven without end.”
The trinitarian union of oneness in diversity is the union Christ has given us with God.
We do well to consider what we have been taught; to ascertain whether we have received a diminished gospel or a gospel that is ‘no gospel at all’. The Gospel of Jesus and Paul is rich and powerful, never rubbish/dung. It makes us alive in the adventure of life with Christ.
*A mode of thinking that separates Christ’s person from His work.
