Original Sin
Sola Gratia
The Lord's Supper
Showing posts with label Hamartiology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hamartiology. Show all posts
Tuesday, August 27, 2019
Augustine of Hippo
Thursday, June 27, 2019
Cyril of Alexandria
Original Sin
Sola Fide
Justification by Faith is the Key to Understand Scripture and Distinguish Between Law & Gospel
The Lord's Super
Monday, July 4, 2016
God's Will (references)
Last Post I showed a diagram of God's Will and how everything comes in pairs. This post, I am showing my references, both to Bible verses and previous posts discussing the topics.
Hidden [Deuteronomy 29:29a]
Revealed
Two
kinds of revelation
Specific (Scripture Alone) [1 Tim. 3:16, Hebrews 1:1-2]
Two
kinds of general revelation
Law [1 Tim. 1:8]
Gospel [John 3:16]
Love God [Mark 12:30]
Love
your neighbor [Mark 12:31]
Two Functions of the Law [convention]
Negative
(Informed by general revelation)
Positive
(Informs outcomes of subjective justification)
Two Negative Uses of the Law (God's Alien Work)
Two
kinds of sin
Original [1 Cor. 2:14]
Specific [Galatians 5:19-21]
Two
Positives of the Law
Earned Righteousness (Merit) of God in Jesus only. Jesus is the law fulfilled [Hebrews 7:26-27]
Mercy (Not getting what we deserve) [Psalm 123:3]
Objective
(through universal atonement from God’s grace and Jesus earned righteousness)10:10 ]
Subjective
(applied individually, through the Holy Spirit)
Two
Outcomes of Justification
Righteousness [Romans 3:21-22; 10:3]
Vertical, Imputed [Romans 3:10-11, 2 Corinthians 5:21; 1 Corinthians 1:30]
Horizontal, Incipient
(Informed by the 3rd use of the law) [Galatians 5:22-24]
Two
kinds of Sanctification
Word [Romans 10:17]
Two
Sacraments with physical elements
Lord’s Supper [Matthew 26:28]
Wednesday, June 29, 2016
God's Will (a diagram)
I have had many posts about man's will and free will, but it is important also to remember to dicuss God's Will. God's will is very clear in the Bible, but what is interesting is that describing it, topics always come in what I call the law of twos. See here for an explanation of the meaning of the number 2.
Friday, June 10, 2016
Secondary Bible Themes 8 - Trees
Here is a list of themes in the Bible.One of them is trees. Trees in general represent a connection or intersection between heaven and earth. They extend their branches, leaves, and needles upward and there very shape is an arrow pointing to heaven. At the same time, however, they are firmly and deeply rooted in the earth below. This is why a tree Christmas Tree is a symbol used at Christmas, when the divine became human. Planting a tree was even a form of worship in ancient times before the covenant with God (Genesis 21:33, Deuteronomy 16:21).
Genesis 1:11 Describes a Garden of Eden full of trees. Verse 2:18 explains that the vegetation yields food with sources of running water and verse 9 explains that there are two trees on streams specifically named, which are tree of knowledge of good and evil and the tree of life. One brings protection, life, comfort, grace, and community as people gather to eat. The other casts a shadow of death, sorrow, and hardship.
Proverbs likens good things to the tree of life, such as Wisdom (11:30), A desire fulfilled (13:12), and a gentle tongue (15:4). Psalm 1:3 states that the blessed man is like a healthful tree, planted by streams of water. He yields fruit, has leaves that don't whither, and is always prosperous. This language of a man being a tree that bears fruit is continued throughout the Bible. Good tree bears good fruit bad trees bear bad fruit. There is the Fruit of the spirit and Sanctification fruit.
This brings to mind the imagery of the Garden of Eden. Referring to the blessed man, restore what Adam lost. While we all aspire and work toward this, the ultimate fulfillment of this blessed man is Jesus. This is explained in Jeremiah 17:7-10, which sounds a lot like the Psalm, but with the addition that our hearts are deceitful and desperately sick, showing that we are not the perfect fulfillment of the good tree.
Continuing the theme of Heaven being like Eden restored, in Chapter 47, Ezekiel discusses his vision of a massive river lowing east out of the temple of Jerusalem with trees growing for food on both sides. Their leaves will not whither, nor fruit fail. Every month they will bear fruit.
This imagery of Heaven and the New Jerusalem is repeated again in Revelation 12:12. God shows John his vision a tree by a river that bears 12 kinds of fruit, one for each month. Leaves are for healing of the nations. Throughout John’s writings, he likes to link Genesis to Christ (such as John 1). Christ is the tree of life. Christ bore the fruit, Christ healed the nations.
Also, God being the perfect blessed man then allows us access to the tree of life one again. "He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who conquers I will grant to eat of the tree of life, which is in the paradise of God." -Revelations 2:8
Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us—for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who is hanged on a tree”
-Galatians 12:12
“And if a man has committed a crime punishable by death and he is put to death, and you hang him on a tree, his body shall not remain all night on the tree, but you shall bury him the same day, for a hanged man is cursed by God.You shall not defile your land that the Lord your God is giving you for an inheritance. -Deuteronomy 21:22-23 as a Prophecy of Christ.
The God of our fathers raised Jesus, whom you killed by hanging him on a tree. God exalted him at his right hand as Leader and Savior, to give repentance to Israel and forgiveness of sins.
-Acts 5:30-31
He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed. -1 Peter 2:24
Monday, June 6, 2016
Secondary Bible Themes 7 - Mountains
Here is a list of themes in the Bible. Mountains are one of them and are mentioned in 310 verses in the Bible. They are presented as the point where human nature meets God: the meeting place for the temporal and the eternal, with Jesus himself as the connecting point, acting as the bridge between heaven and earth. Mountains, therefore represent holy places, where God is present. Pagans also had this idea of gods dwelling on mountains (think Olympus).
He said, “Take your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I shall tell you.” -Genesis 22:2
[ The Burning Bush ] Now Moses was keeping the flock of his father-in-law, Jethro, the priest of Midian, and he led his flock to the west side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God....He said, “But I will be with you, and this shall be the sign for you, that I have sent you: when you have brought the people out of Egypt, you shall serve God on this mountain.” -Exodus 3:1,12
You will bring them in and plant them on your own mountain, the place, O Lord, which you have made for your abode, the sanctuary, O Lord, which your hands have established. -Exodus 15:17
In Exodus 19-34 Moses goes up the mountain to meet with God and recieve God's word in the 10 commandments.
[ The Shining Face of Moses ] When Moses came down from Mount Sinai, with the two tablets of the testimony in his hand as he came down from the mountain, Moses did not know that the skin of his face shone because he had been talking with God. -Exodus 34:29
[ The Lord Is in His Holy Temple ] [ To the choirmaster. Of David. ] In the Lord I take refuge; how can you say to my soul, “Flee like a bird to your mountain,-Psalm 11:1
"I lift my eyes up to the mountains, where does my help come from?" -Psalm 121
“Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob,that he may teach us his ways and that we may walk in his path." -Isaiah 2:3a
Matthew specifically utilizes this theme and makes the connection of Mountains and Jesus. This makes sense because Matthew is a Jew, writing to the Jews to explain how Jesus is the Messiah. He is transitioning and linking the Old and New Testaments as well as showing that Jesus is God with us.
Again, the devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory.-Matthew 4:8
The Sermon on the Mount -Matthew 5
And after he had dismissed the crowds, he went up on the mountain by himself to pray. When evening came, he was there alone,-Matthew 14:23
[ Jesus Heals Many ] Jesus went on from there and walked beside the Sea of Galilee. And he went up on the mountain and sat down there. -
Matthew 15:29
[ The Transfiguration ] And after six days Jesus took with him Peter and James, and John his brother, and led them up a high mountain by themselves. -Matthew 17:1
He said to them, “Because of your little faith. For truly, I say to you, if you have faith like a grain of mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move, and nothing will be impossible for you.” -Matthew 17:20
And Jesus answered them, “Truly, I say to you, if you have faith and do not doubt, you will not only do what has been done to the fig tree, but even if you say to this mountain, ‘Be taken up and thrown into the sea,’ it will happen. - Matthew 21:21
Jesus commissioned the apostles on a mountain, just like Moses was.
[ The Great Commission ] Now the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain to which Jesus had directed them. -Matthew 28:16
Revelation is a vision is full of symbolism about the end of this world, the beginning of the next, and Jesus at the nexus, so mountains featured prominently there as well.
The sky vanished like a scroll that is being rolled up, and every mountain and island was removed from its place.Then the kings of the earth and the great ones and the generals and the rich and the powerful, and everyone, slave and free, hid themselves in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains, calling to the mountains and rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the face of him who is seated on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb, -Revelation 6:14-16
The second angel blew his trumpet, and something like a great mountain, burning with fire, was thrown into the sea, and a third of the sea became blood. -Revelation 8:8
This calls for a mind with wisdom: the seven heads are seven mountains on which the woman is seated; -Revelation 17:9
And he carried me away in the Spirit to a great, high mountain, and showed me the holy city Jerusalem coming down out of heaven from God, -Revelation 21:10
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