Posted in Aquinas, Christology, Doctrine of God, Pneumatology, atonement, redemption, tagged plato, Spirit, creation, pentecost on May 5, 2008 | No Comments »
This does not mean that all esse commune (created being) is redeemed by virtue of the incarnation or his one act on the cross. Of course there is an eschatological element in which all of creation has the promise of redemption now through Christ’s realization of that promise. However, those who espouse a universalist atonement based [...]
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Posted in Bible, redemption, tagged luke, typology, garden on March 24, 2008 | No Comments »
“A man had a fig tree in his vineyard and came seeking fruit on it and found none.” (Luke 13:6)
“He was trying to get a look at Jesus, but being a short man he could not see over the crowd. So he ran on ahead and climbed up into a sycamore tree to see him, because Jesus was going [...]
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Posted in redemption, tagged sanctification on March 4, 2008 | No Comments »
I should as soon expect a farmer to prosper in business who contented himself with sowing his fields and never looking at them till harvest, as expect a believer to attain much holiness, who was not diligent about his Bible reading, his prayers and the use of his Sundays. Our God is a God who works [...]
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Posted in Love, freedom, redemption, tagged augustine on March 3, 2008 | No Comments »
… At the same time you are slave, and free; slave, because you are created such; free, because you are loved by God, by whom you were created: yes, free indeed, because you love Him by whom you were made. Do not serve with discontent; for your murmurs do not tend to release you from [...]
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What do people mean by this?
Earn: This could mean either to work hard to receive a reward from someone or to work hard to receive your wages. Paul says in Romans 4:4, “Now to the one who works, his wages are not counted as a gift but as his due.” Jesus did not work for [...]
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It is important to ask if sin is an ontological reality rather than an exclusive legal reality. To ask this is also to ask if man’s relationship to God is effected by the nature of man’s reflecting God’s own image. Aquinas’ distinction in two ways is helpful:
On the part of Christ he [Paul] writes of [...]
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