But it knows of
a plan of salvation which is not a plan it has devised.
You could go insane (maybe I have - lol) Oh yeah, and the supposed
plan of salvation which I'm not sure Jesus and Paul agree on, much less all the factions in Christianity.
The plan of salvation which the Bible teaches is completely unlike any other plan of salvation we find among the man made world religions.
Not exact matches
We try to contribute to the renewal
of these treasures
of salvation in the lives
of Gods people through a renewed clarity
of understanding
of Gods
plan of Wisdom and redeeming Love for his creatures, a renewed enthusiasm for handing on his Word, a deepened personal love for our Lord Jesus Christ and a fresh dedication to living the high standards
of integrity in both charity and chastity
which should mark his true disciples and apostles in the modern world.
The mystery
of creation and the history
of salvation can then be shown anew to the world with great clarity and power as the one unfolding
plan of Gods Wisdom and Love in
which all things are ordered towards the incarnate Lordship
of Jesus Christ in whom we are destined to be made co-sharers
of the divine nature (2 Peter 1:4).
There are a number
of great rabbit trails whether you want to look the blood
of the «eternal covenant» noted in Hebrews, a covenant
which is not written about in scripture anywhere, but implies that the
plan of salvation is before all time — and it is the blood
of the cross
which impelled Christ from the grave.
Naturally it is the broad outline
of his theological synthesis
which is most accessible and engaging, but he is able to relate his philosophy to his theological reflection on the history
of salvation in a seamless way precisely because he sees creation and
salvation as the sequential manifestation
of a single divine Wisdom and
Plan.
We hope that there remains no quarrel with the orthodoxy
of our central affirmations that «The fathers maintained the sacredness
of matter and its share in God's saving
plans ``; that the flesh is central to the
plan of salvation; that the Incarnation takes place in order to bring about eternal communion between the Godhead and humanity, and thereby the whole
of the physical creation
which is summed up in Christ.
The Oikonomia For Holloway, as for the Catechism, the Trinity is directly and fully involved in the work
of creation
which is the one
plan of salvation.
But the history
of our time is no less the stage upon
which the drama
of salvation is played out than was the history
of the fifth century B.C. or the first century A.D. Accordingly, the Christian does not doubt that God is moving with power in the world today — the world
of African nationalism, thermonuclear politics, metropolitan
planning, and space exploration, The Christian's problem is rather to discover when, where, and how God is moving with such decisiveness as to create a crisis
of decision for the church and to summon it and its resources into the struggle.
Although God hated sin in man, He loved man and, following a
plan which dated from the beginning
of creation, gave man the law to keep alive the hope
of salvation until Christ should come.