Saturday, September 21, 2013
Friday, September 20, 2013
Monday, September 16, 2013
Purposeless State of Reality/ Biblical Criticism
Purposeless State of Reality/ Biblical Criticism
There are some similarities between what evolution has done with biology in the scientific field and what biblical criticism is attempting to do with hermeneutics in the field of biblical theology. For example, I see they are both tackling the question of origins and the powerful evidence for the inspiration of the creator by obscuring the vision of the divine behind all the information found in both the natural and scriptural revelation.
They are both appealing to the view of random blinded processes involving slow modifications that always get further away from the original state of things, distorting the beauty of God's clear message in exchange for a view of a chaotic and confusing purposeless state of reality.
The objective behind these theories is to remove and blur the perspective of God from both the inspiration of the scriptures and the divine design found within creation. If nature and the text were randomly modified from generation to generation, then what confidence or substance can be left within the content of their revelations for us to have reverence, respect and worship in a personal intimate relationship with God? The alternative to this would be a deist version of a god that is some how involved but ultimately, hopelessly removed from the events of both history and humanity.
This to me is the obvious way modern man resolves his issues with morality and idolatry. Who cares what the text says about my iniquity if maybe there was another version that did not mention some of the sins I read in my scriptures today. Who cares what I do with my spirituality and my version of god if we are all an evolving soup trying to modify our view of god and ourselves in the gradual process of a random meaningless existence. There are many responsible models for evolution and biblical criticism but I feel I wrote too much already, so I will let the rest of those who read draw the final analysis of these thoughts into their logical implications and proper conclusions...be blessed, keep your peace and I pray we all stay focus in the faith that was once delivered to us.
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There are some similarities between what evolution has done with biology in the scientific field and what biblical criticism is attempting to do with hermeneutics in the field of biblical theology. For example, I see they are both tackling the question of origins and the powerful evidence for the inspiration of the creator by obscuring the vision of the divine behind all the information found in both the natural and scriptural revelation.
They are both appealing to the view of random blinded processes involving slow modifications that always get further away from the original state of things, distorting the beauty of God's clear message in exchange for a view of a chaotic and confusing purposeless state of reality.
The objective behind these theories is to remove and blur the perspective of God from both the inspiration of the scriptures and the divine design found within creation. If nature and the text were randomly modified from generation to generation, then what confidence or substance can be left within the content of their revelations for us to have reverence, respect and worship in a personal intimate relationship with God? The alternative to this would be a deist version of a god that is some how involved but ultimately, hopelessly removed from the events of both history and humanity.
This to me is the obvious way modern man resolves his issues with morality and idolatry. Who cares what the text says about my iniquity if maybe there was another version that did not mention some of the sins I read in my scriptures today. Who cares what I do with my spirituality and my version of god if we are all an evolving soup trying to modify our view of god and ourselves in the gradual process of a random meaningless existence. There are many responsible models for evolution and biblical criticism but I feel I wrote too much already, so I will let the rest of those who read draw the final analysis of these thoughts into their logical implications and proper conclusions...be blessed, keep your peace and I pray we all stay focus in the faith that was once delivered to us.
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Monday, September 9, 2013
Thursday, September 5, 2013
The Coming of Christ
The Coming of Christ
When the bible talks about the return of Christ it uses the words apokalupsis, epiphaneia and parausia. These three words capture the paradoxical insight of the “already/not yet” tension within the Kingdom of God.
Perhaps a better way to understand the coming of Christ is to grasp the power, significance and influence of the fact that the King and His Kingdom has already come in all His fullness in Christ and as a result of what has already happened thru His work and person, He has not stop coming to all His creation ever since.
He is still showing His glory in revelation-- apokalupsis. He is still manifesting Himself to the worshipper--epiphania and His royal procession keeps arriving thru out all of His territory within creation in great visitation and demonstration of His presence and power--parausia. There will be one last final push in all of this birthing process that will like none other in the resurrection of the dead, the transformation of the cosmos, and the destruction of evil.
But perhaps we have focused so much in this final moment that we have isolated and narrowed Christ’s coming into one single event, disconnected from all that He has already done and is still trying to do throughout all the earth through us.
What if this last final scatological birthing push is in reality the accumulation of all previous divine interventions, reaching a climax thru our Kingdom participation in the fulfillment of our responsibility and vocation in the great commission? Is this too optimistic? Is this just not realistic enough for us? If this view is the real case scenario, then we have to get off our lazy couch and go to work because we still have a big job to do in this world!! Let us discovered the true meaning of that old first century short prayer Maranatha!! Our Lord cometh!! Even so, come Lord Jesus!!
When the bible talks about the return of Christ it uses the words apokalupsis, epiphaneia and parausia. These three words capture the paradoxical insight of the “already/not yet” tension within the Kingdom of God.
Perhaps a better way to understand the coming of Christ is to grasp the power, significance and influence of the fact that the King and His Kingdom has already come in all His fullness in Christ and as a result of what has already happened thru His work and person, He has not stop coming to all His creation ever since.
He is still showing His glory in revelation-- apokalupsis. He is still manifesting Himself to the worshipper--epiphania and His royal procession keeps arriving thru out all of His territory within creation in great visitation and demonstration of His presence and power--parausia. There will be one last final push in all of this birthing process that will like none other in the resurrection of the dead, the transformation of the cosmos, and the destruction of evil.
But perhaps we have focused so much in this final moment that we have isolated and narrowed Christ’s coming into one single event, disconnected from all that He has already done and is still trying to do throughout all the earth through us.
What if this last final scatological birthing push is in reality the accumulation of all previous divine interventions, reaching a climax thru our Kingdom participation in the fulfillment of our responsibility and vocation in the great commission? Is this too optimistic? Is this just not realistic enough for us? If this view is the real case scenario, then we have to get off our lazy couch and go to work because we still have a big job to do in this world!! Let us discovered the true meaning of that old first century short prayer Maranatha!! Our Lord cometh!! Even so, come Lord Jesus!!
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