OUR PERSONHOOD IS IN CHRIST WHO IS OUR LIFE
08/09/24 08:08
There is no dichotomy in God. The Christ who walked in Palestine and the Jesus who by the Spirit lives in us is the I AM of God. To live Christ is to be whole. To see Jesus is to see the Father as Jesus declared. The legalist, if she wants to be alive with spirit and life should understand that what Christ gave us was not a Christian ideology. It was Himself as the knowing of God and the knowing of the Real Selves that we can be in Christ. Christ is not only God. He is the Real Human being. Just so we know – the essence of God is Jesus Christ – not the abstraction of the law but the three-personed God who is trinity. Personhood and the ability to be alive and to love is the foundation of the cosmos.
ECONOMIC AND ONTOLOGICAL
“The economic Trinity might well be spoken of as the evangelical Trinity and the ontological Trinity as the theological Trinity. ‘Evangelical’ in this sense refers to the truth content of the Gospel as it is revealed to us through the incarnate or human economy (ἡ ἀνθρωπίνη οἰκονομία) which Christ undertook toward us, in the midst of us, and for our sakes (∊ἰς ἡμς, ἐν μέσῳ ἡμν, δι’ ἡμς); ..
‘Theological’ in this sense refers to the truth of the eternal Being and Activity of God as he is in himself, the essential Deity (οὐσιώδης Θ∊ότης), or ‘Theology’ (Θ∊ολογία, which Athanasius equated with divine worship). While for Athanasius economy and theology (οἰκονομία and θ∊ολογία) must be clearly distinguished, they are not to be separated from each other. If the economic or evangelical Trinity and the ontological or theological Trinity were disparate, this would bring into question whether God himself was the actual content of his revelation, and whether God himself was really in Jesus Christ reconciling the world to himself.” (1)
LIES ABOUT GOD AND US
The problem with ‘other gospels’ and particularly with legalism is that they undo who God is and pervert who we are. Instead of sons we define ourselves as slaves and workers. When Jesus Christ is made subordinate to the law/moralism in a re-run of the knowledge of good and evil, we deny the new covenant. In this aberration God is be-smirched and His image in us is suffocated.
HOW TO BE YOU
You can only be you as a true daughter and son when Christ is in you and being expressed as you. This is the one living way of becoming a real self with a real identity and a genuine holiness. “The true self finds “fullness of being.” It knows completion, for it is in the Perfect One.
When our Lord told us we must be perfect, even as our Heavenly Father is perfect, He was saying we must be completed. The word perfect, as translated in the Scriptures, can mean “without flaw,” but it also means “completed, finished, made whole.” We are here dealing with a number of profound things, one of which is personhood.
We are becoming persons. We become as we remain in Christ, a state of God-consciousness. Focused on the word the Father is always sending, obedient to it, the new self is not in bondage to the voices the old self listened to, those that pull the soul toward death and nonbeing.” (2) In the law we don’t become a person. We make do as a construct. In Christ we live incarnated with His Person to become a real person ourselves. What kind of person? A son/daughter of God.
(1) Torrance, Thomas F.. The Christian Doctrine of God, One Being Three Persons (T&T Clark Cornerstones) (p. 7). Bloomsbury Publishing. Kindle Edition.
(2) Payne, Leanne. The Healing Presence (p. 55). Baker Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.
ECONOMIC AND ONTOLOGICAL
“The economic Trinity might well be spoken of as the evangelical Trinity and the ontological Trinity as the theological Trinity. ‘Evangelical’ in this sense refers to the truth content of the Gospel as it is revealed to us through the incarnate or human economy (ἡ ἀνθρωπίνη οἰκονομία) which Christ undertook toward us, in the midst of us, and for our sakes (∊ἰς ἡμς, ἐν μέσῳ ἡμν, δι’ ἡμς); ..
‘Theological’ in this sense refers to the truth of the eternal Being and Activity of God as he is in himself, the essential Deity (οὐσιώδης Θ∊ότης), or ‘Theology’ (Θ∊ολογία, which Athanasius equated with divine worship). While for Athanasius economy and theology (οἰκονομία and θ∊ολογία) must be clearly distinguished, they are not to be separated from each other. If the economic or evangelical Trinity and the ontological or theological Trinity were disparate, this would bring into question whether God himself was the actual content of his revelation, and whether God himself was really in Jesus Christ reconciling the world to himself.” (1)
LIES ABOUT GOD AND US
The problem with ‘other gospels’ and particularly with legalism is that they undo who God is and pervert who we are. Instead of sons we define ourselves as slaves and workers. When Jesus Christ is made subordinate to the law/moralism in a re-run of the knowledge of good and evil, we deny the new covenant. In this aberration God is be-smirched and His image in us is suffocated.
HOW TO BE YOU
You can only be you as a true daughter and son when Christ is in you and being expressed as you. This is the one living way of becoming a real self with a real identity and a genuine holiness. “The true self finds “fullness of being.” It knows completion, for it is in the Perfect One.
When our Lord told us we must be perfect, even as our Heavenly Father is perfect, He was saying we must be completed. The word perfect, as translated in the Scriptures, can mean “without flaw,” but it also means “completed, finished, made whole.” We are here dealing with a number of profound things, one of which is personhood.
We are becoming persons. We become as we remain in Christ, a state of God-consciousness. Focused on the word the Father is always sending, obedient to it, the new self is not in bondage to the voices the old self listened to, those that pull the soul toward death and nonbeing.” (2) In the law we don’t become a person. We make do as a construct. In Christ we live incarnated with His Person to become a real person ourselves. What kind of person? A son/daughter of God.
(1) Torrance, Thomas F.. The Christian Doctrine of God, One Being Three Persons (T&T Clark Cornerstones) (p. 7). Bloomsbury Publishing. Kindle Edition.
(2) Payne, Leanne. The Healing Presence (p. 55). Baker Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.
