YOU AS AN AGENT OF NEW CREATION LIFE
06/05/24 08:10
Genuine life as a person is found in oneness with Christ who has placed us in Himself in God. We need to live in a version of the Gospel that is of Christ and the Apostles rather than an invention of our own. To be specific, legalised gospels are an expression of the human drive to define Christianity in the frame of the knowledge of good and evil. But it is the tree of the cross that is relevant to our abundant life and not the tree of knowledge whose eaten fruit forms us into sons/daughters of God. Life in the Spirit is our inclusion in The One Spirit in Christ in God. It’s more than the gifts. It’s the result of the already achieved reconciliation between Man and God accomplished by Jesus Christ.
‘IN THE SPIRIT’ NOT JUST ABOUT ‘GIFTS’
“The Father/Son relation is essentially a relation in the Spirit, and that does not allow us to read material [or legalised] images back into God. It was thus the central place given by Nicene theology to the doctrine of the Holy Spirit, as well as to the doctrine of the Son, that helped to cleanse the minds of the faithful from the Hellenic habit of thinking of God in mimetic, anthropocentric images.
Instead of allowing itself to be Hellenised by the optical thinking endemic in the religion and philosophy of the Mediterranean world, Christian theology remained faithful to its Hebraic and biblical roots.” (1)
The question is, is your theology faithful to these Biblical Roots or just an invention?
(1)Torrance, Thomas F.. The Trinitarian Faith (T&T Clark Cornerstones) (p. 72). Bloomsbury Publishing. Kindle Edition.
‘IN THE SPIRIT’ NOT JUST ABOUT ‘GIFTS’
“The Father/Son relation is essentially a relation in the Spirit, and that does not allow us to read material [or legalised] images back into God. It was thus the central place given by Nicene theology to the doctrine of the Holy Spirit, as well as to the doctrine of the Son, that helped to cleanse the minds of the faithful from the Hellenic habit of thinking of God in mimetic, anthropocentric images.
Instead of allowing itself to be Hellenised by the optical thinking endemic in the religion and philosophy of the Mediterranean world, Christian theology remained faithful to its Hebraic and biblical roots.” (1)
The question is, is your theology faithful to these Biblical Roots or just an invention?
(1)Torrance, Thomas F.. The Trinitarian Faith (T&T Clark Cornerstones) (p. 72). Bloomsbury Publishing. Kindle Edition.
