As usual, I appreciate the wonderfully clear presentation. Bravo.
The world of information transmission being what it is -- the internet is assuring us (teasing us) that our bread is being cast on vastly larger waters than ever before in history, and if our efforts ever do have an impact, we will be utterly unaware of it. That can be discouraging. We can tell ourselves that it doesn't matter to us -- that that's not why we do what we do.
Yeah, right.
Anyway, last night your bread landed.
I was at a dinner party and the six of us sitting around the table were discussing the general question that one of our number had posed: "Do you think that the standard man-in-the-pew Christian is capable of understanding the Bible as he reads it?"
...and in response I heard -- unattributed -- the story of the priest-temple-water ritual from this recent Humble Skeptic podcast and smiled inwardly. I knew where they'd heard the story.
Great insights. Why does he, Andreas, say in the end: "In heaven?" As if without earth. Yet, the stream of water from the throne of God alongside of which the tree of life is on eiher side, is it not for the healing of the nations under all heavens? Will He, the Son of Man, not be with his mankind that he bought back from death with his life? Isn't He the Coming One?
Or are the nations supposed to leave this earth that God created for us to live on, along with all the animals in midst of the garden of God?
Will He not make heavens and earth anew?
Your insights connect Him to the history of Israel and the world. Does He not fulfill rather than end the history of the world and mankind?
Why have the churches evaded the promise of God coming into his world? In order for the powers here never to be disturbed?
Is not a reading of αποκαλυψισ as dissolution and catastrophy a manichean, platonic, gnostic reading.
I was very fond and delighted to hear you both speak so highly of this great Coming One. Will we be able to bear his coming?
Most will not be able to. That's why it will mean catastrophy, too, because not many will be ready to welcome and bear his appearance in might.
As usual, I appreciate the wonderfully clear presentation. Bravo.
The world of information transmission being what it is -- the internet is assuring us (teasing us) that our bread is being cast on vastly larger waters than ever before in history, and if our efforts ever do have an impact, we will be utterly unaware of it. That can be discouraging. We can tell ourselves that it doesn't matter to us -- that that's not why we do what we do.
Yeah, right.
Anyway, last night your bread landed.
I was at a dinner party and the six of us sitting around the table were discussing the general question that one of our number had posed: "Do you think that the standard man-in-the-pew Christian is capable of understanding the Bible as he reads it?"
...and in response I heard -- unattributed -- the story of the priest-temple-water ritual from this recent Humble Skeptic podcast and smiled inwardly. I knew where they'd heard the story.
You're being heard. You're being read.
Great insights. Why does he, Andreas, say in the end: "In heaven?" As if without earth. Yet, the stream of water from the throne of God alongside of which the tree of life is on eiher side, is it not for the healing of the nations under all heavens? Will He, the Son of Man, not be with his mankind that he bought back from death with his life? Isn't He the Coming One?
Or are the nations supposed to leave this earth that God created for us to live on, along with all the animals in midst of the garden of God?
Will He not make heavens and earth anew?
Your insights connect Him to the history of Israel and the world. Does He not fulfill rather than end the history of the world and mankind?
Why have the churches evaded the promise of God coming into his world? In order for the powers here never to be disturbed?
Is not a reading of αποκαλυψισ as dissolution and catastrophy a manichean, platonic, gnostic reading.
I was very fond and delighted to hear you both speak so highly of this great Coming One. Will we be able to bear his coming?
Most will not be able to. That's why it will mean catastrophy, too, because not many will be ready to welcome and bear his appearance in might.