This is the best and clearest example of why & how Barfh is a Christian?
Did he apply this to himself? Did he take Jesus as his personal savior?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The event of the death of Christ is the execution of the judgment of God, of the gracious God who in the giving of His son in our place, and the lowly obedience of the Son in our place, reconciled the world with Himself, genuinely and definitely affirmed man as His creature in spite of his sin, cried to the heaven, confirmed His faithfulness towards him, and carried through His covenant with him............... Barth (Church Dogmatics, iv.1, p 514)
Words written by one who is involved in the very story for which Christ experienced.
In a message dated 2/25/2005 6:16:43 AM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
It is interesting to me that God dealt with the fall of man as He did. His was a solution considered in a world (eternity) very different from ours -- inaccessible, in fact, except through faith (now) and dying (later). But the administration of this "consideration" was in our world -- a world that God created, rules over but cannot indwell apart from a humiliation (Philip 2) and a surrender of his eternal existence in death. That is a remarkable action on the part of the Christian God. I believe that what He did for us is what He HAD to do. The fall left Him without a choice. And He knew of this demand before our creation. The Son of God was just that, the Son, before the foundations of the world (John 17) and it was out of this passion that we are created!!
The "creation," then, was not a statement of His power so much as it was of His grace.
(These words are mine ---------- the inspiration, such as it is, for these words came from Barth. To argue that Barth is not profoundly a Christian is ill-informed, at best)
JD
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