For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the LORD. Isaiah 55:8 What are God’s ways? They are how he thinks and acts in a given context. God’s ways are always consonant with his nature and character. God is absolute perfection in all his attributes. God's love for us is therefore perfect and without variance. But if God is love, he must … [Read more...]
Restoration History
But this is a people plundered and looted; they are all of them trapped in holes and hidden in prisons; they have become plunder with none to rescue, spoil with none to say, “Restore!” Isaiah 42:22 Repent therefore and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, so that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord, and that He may send Jesus Christ, who … [Read more...]
Covenant Relationship
God relates to humankind through Covenant. Beginning in Adam and culminating in Christ, there is an historical continuity of God’s covenant relationship with mankind, expressed through various administrations (e.g. Adamic, Noahic, Abrahamic, Mosaic, Davidic, Messianic). As the outshining of God's nature and character, God's law is the ground of covenant. Based on obedience to … [Read more...]
God’s Purpose
God’s purpose is for time-space history. God has purposed that his ‘will’ be done on earth. Through the biblical motif of the ‘Kingdom of God’ we learn that God's Government is designed to bring human flourishing to all spheres of life, which entails another biblical motif of ‘Creation and New Creation’, promising the renovation of the cosmos—a New Heavens and a New … [Read more...]
The First Principles of Christianity
Therefore leaving the elementary [first principles] teaching about the Christ, let us press on to maturity... Hebrews 6:1 The 'first principles' (arche) of anything are the founding or ruling principles. Within them are embedded the genius of successful completion (telos); first principles are thus a seed principle. Having accomplished God’s redemptive purpose for history, … [Read more...]
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