Jesus
Christ creator of this world said that I have power to give my life and bring it back.
Not exact matches
A Resurrection
of his physical body, such as is implied by the empty tomb and by some
of the stories in the Gospels
of his appearances, would point towards a docetic
Christ who does not fully share the lot
of men; unless, indeed, bodily corruption were to be regarded as being bound up with the sinfulness
of man which
Christ did not share (but, unless we accept an impossibly literalistic interpretation
of Genesis 3 as factual history, it is impossible to hold that physical dissolution is not part
of the
Creator's original and constant intention for his creatures in this
world).
This is where we gain our knowledge
of God as
Creator and Ruler
of the
world; our concept
of him as loving Judge and Redeemer
of men; our belief that Jesus
Christ is his Son and our Lord and Savior; and the idea that the Holy Spirit is our ever - present Guide and divine Companion.
As (I think) your christological article in the «Call to Covenant Community» assumes, gospel has more to do with the humanity
of God than with the divinity
of Christ; that is, it posits the divine origins
of Jesus
of Nazareth as the necessary theological presupposition
of its primary testimony to the ultimacy
of the
Creator's
world - orientation (John 3:16!).
But that Buddhist who spends his whole life making the
world a better place, feeding the hungry, healing the sick, basically all the acts (sans miracles) that
Christ lived by has no chance
of salvation because he did not believe in the
creator (the way he was supposed to).
He may prefer to state it differently, as in «I commit myself to the ground
of being,» or «I look on the
world and myself as under the authority
of the
creator - God revealed in the life, death, and resurrection
of Jesus
Christ.»
Will he support the «light
of freedom» and the «mark
of liberty» that the leader
of the free
world is placing as the «god
of fortesses» above the One True Way
of Christ and
of the One and Only
Creator?
So the last two chapters
of Part I affirm that «
Christ's Church, trusting in the design
of the
Creator, acknowledges that human progress can serve man's true happiness, yet she can not help echoing the Apostle's warning: «Be not conformed to this
world» (Rom 12:2)» (37).
The
creator of the
world is
Christ, who can not be faulted for his creation.
But through
Christ we know that God, the
Creator of the
world, who governs the affairs
of nations, is also close at hand so that we may know Him well.
Once the Church had claimed to be the body
of Christ, it had already set upon the imperialistic path
of conquering the
world,
of bringing the life and movement
of the
world into submission to the inhuman authority and power
of an infinitely distant
Creator and Judge.
There is one thing for sure, that I can stake my life on: that if any human being seeks to Know the Truth, and pursues relentlessly, not willing to settle for anything less, and seeks it with a humble heart, God will REVEAL HIMSELF to this person, and this person will ultimately come to the knowledge
of Him — through Jesus
Christ, His Son whom HE sent to this
world to reveal, and declare to us Him, God the Father, the
Creator, to declare who He is, His nature, and His character.