Re: "God in life and nature but not in the Godhead"
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Originally Posted by micah6v8
But I think John 3:16, by also introducing the idea of love, offers a more complete picture. It has (i) love, (ii) redemption (which connotes God's righteousness) and (iii) eternal consequences. When one truly grasps God's love and righteousness and the consequences of redemption, he would ultimately be transformed.
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Redemptive love is also transformative love. And when we see this love in Jesus Christ, and become its vectors (receiving and transmitting), we arguably are at our destiny. To go beyond this to theologicsl constructions, however carefully reasoned, carries risk of distraction snd worse.
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