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Originally Posted by aron
You'd think that at some point the disconnect should become evident, along with the concomitant utility of reassessing scripture.
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I don't know, aron. Some people have looked at me pretty askance around here for asserting that your points 2 and 3 may be wrongly divided from each other, but claiming you're one with THOSE guys but not so much with THESE guys is rather transparent to me.
The importance of God entering into human history in the person and work of Jesus Christ is in large part because it is globally repeated and replicated in each human life. If He had merely come and gone, we wouldn't be much better off than in the Old Testament. However, He is Emmanuel.
Fundamentally, all we ever REALLY know is HERE and NOW.
It's a concept that's a little foreign to classic western ritual Christianity and its tales about a distant afterlife but it's one that has resonated with me since I was young.
Maybe it's Yoda's fault.
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"All his life has he looked away... to the future, to the horizon. Never his mind on where he was. Hmm? What he was doing. Hmph."
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I know that His people perish for lack of a vision and the entire Bible is a history but just consider that we we have a living hope and we look away unto Jesus...