After providing comments on the draft, then - Met Office official Peter Thorne wrote: «I'm pretty sure we can
reconcile these things relatively simply.
This movement didn't help
me reconcile the things that were in my head with the things I was doing with my body in my studio.
Similarly the sweeping assertion is made that in Christ «all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell,» and that through Christ God purposed «to
reconcile all things unto Himself, whether on earth or in heaven.»
Out of the depths of His love for us, the Father has sent forth His own beloved Son to
reconcile all things to Himself.
They said that if I entertained the hope that those without access to the gospel might still be loved and saved by God, I would fall prey to the dangerous idea that God loves everyone, that there is nothing God won't do to
reconcile all things to Himself.
Peacemakers strive to create peace and attempt to
reconcile things and people that are at odds with one another.
I'd like to hear an intelligent, non-violent response to this, since I really do just want to understand how to
reconcile things that keep me away from churches....
Either Jesus died to
reconcile all things to himself, or just some things; either we are new creations in Christ 24/7, or we are new creations in Christ some of the time; either the people of God are sent into all the world to make disciples, or into just some bits of it... At root, the Church's attitude to work reveals its beliefs about God.
Equally unavailing, in my opinion, are appeals to passages that say that God's plan is to
reconcile all things in Christ (Ephesians 1:10; Colossians 1:19 - 20).
19 For it pleased [the Father] that in him should all fulness dwell; 20 And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to
reconcile all things unto himself; by him, [I say], whether [they be] things in earth, or things in heaven.
The common thread, however, is the inability to
reconcile some things with others: reality with aggrandizement, hope with reality, anecdote with fact, ideas with proof.
When religion is not creating people who can
reconcile things, heal things, and absorb contradictions — then religion isn't doing its job.
But this is in the larger context of him bringing peace and
reconciling all things to God through himself.
Reconciliation between us is a taste of the divine, incarnate Love
reconciling all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, things past or present or future.
And if the bible says that in Christ all things are held together, and in him we have our being, and he is in all things
reconciling all things to God... is it possible that in a sense all things are a manifestation and even an incarnation (small «i») of God?
Indeed, one might even say that gentleness, mercy and peacemaking are practices that characterize God's action in
reconciling all things to God in Christ.
The audacity of Christian hope is that Jesus Christ came into the world, and is
reconciling all things to himself.
Paul boasted in the cross, and said that the blood of Jesus» cross
reconciled all things, removed enmity, forgave sins.
As Brian Fikkert, coauthor of When Helping Hurts, put it, we are called to worship and serve «Colossians 1 Jesus» who is
reconciling all things, not a «Star Trek Jesus» just waiting to beam us out of this broken world.
Bonhoeffer rejects these views because Christ created all things (including man, state, economy, nature, etc.), has
reconciled all things, and the church is placed in the midst of the world where this message may be heard.
They do not speak for themselves, as little absolutes, but rather give us news of who made them, the one who
reconciles all things to himself.
The goal of living out the gospel in this way is to show people that God is redeeming and restoring and
reconciling all things through the gospel.
That continues into the New Testament, where we learn that Christ is
reconciling all things to himself (Col 1:20) and has called us into the same ministry of reconciliation.
In h im, in whom God
reconciled all things to himself (2 Cor.
If the mission of God in the world is
reconciling all things (Colossians 1), then what does it look like for us to bear witness to God's work?
At the same time, in view of the damage and destruction wreaked by human sin, he bore the awful cost of restoring and
reconciling all things in his own body and soul.
It makes downloading bank records and
reconciling things into tax categories very easy for my accountant.
Not exact matches
How do you
reconcile those two
things?
I'm my happiest self when I'm
reconciling accounts, absolutely... but not when
reconciling accounts and transferring money all over creation is stealing time and energy away from more important
things.
How do you
reconcile the RC church doing all those
things that it's told not to (one of them being «call no man Father»)?
Part of you is still reeling from the revelation and trying to
reconcile the fact that a man who you respect (ed), who taught about
things like integrity and honesty, was apparently more able to speak those truths than live them out.
It is incumbent upon us to make peace, to love all people, to discern the powerful current of all
things moving back to God and participate in this
reconciling force that the scriptures say is at work in the world.
killed any hope of my ever being
reconciled to them... the only
thing I would add to this, David, is: «Invade their personal and emotional space as often as possible, and pour salt into their jagged open wounds» as a couple seem to be doing here, and many more are doing so on Facebook... heaven forbid they should just let you have some space to yourself and others who have the same experience, and not harrass you even there...
You'd think the way
things are going that the idea of all
things being
reconciled has been an epic fail.
In Colossians 1:19 - 20, Paul writes, «For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him [Jesus], and through him to
reconcile to himself all
things, whether
things on earth or
things in heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross.»
For another
thing, when we have two propositions that appear on the surface to be irreconcilable the burden of proof is on those who would
reconcile them.
If God is
reconciling the world to himself, that is the only
thing that I could be.
He, we believe, is the eternal Logos who became flesh in order to
reconcile man to God and reveal the underlying reason of all
things.
May we all be inspired to speak with more truth, more conviction, more care, and more bravery about this difficult topic, so that our awareness doesn't end here, but continues to grow, until the day when all
things are
reconciled to the source of love, and the story of abuse is only a memory.
The special logic of this theory, after all, is that the Christian philosopher — having surmounted the «aesthetic,» «ethical,» and even in a sense «religious» stages of human existence — is uniquely able to enact a return, back to the
things of earth, back to finitude, back to the aesthetic; having found the highest rationality of being in God's kenosis — His self - outpouring — in the Incarnation, the Christian philosopher is
reconciled to the particularity of flesh and form, recognizes all of creation as a purely gratuitous gift of a God of infinite love, and is able to rejoice in the levity of a world created and redeemed purely out of God's «pleasure.»
It is the true fulfillment now in time of the Emanuel promise... God with us... no longer «up there» high above separate in the heavens but now among us, with us, in us, through us, as us, the All in all, the through all
things reconciling all to the All.
However, if we take the concept that all
things are
reconciled to God in Christ seriously, and that even though we canâ $ ™ t perceive it, somehow all
things and people are subject to Christ (Hebrews 2:8), then the connection is maintained.
It was also about
reconciling to Himself all
things, whether on earth or in heaven, making peace by the blood of His cross.
The problem of
reconciling human suffering with the existence of a God who loves, is only insoluble so long as we attach a trivial meaning to the word «love,» and look on
things as if man were the centre of them.
In case you were wondering whether or not Sudan had righted
things,
reconciled differences between warring factions and begun working together for the mutual good of their citizens while your...
The intuition that reality for human beings, and indeed for all living
things, is necessarily temporal, with an irreversible distinction between past, present, and future, is difficult to
reconcile with the idea, long orthodox in the physics community, that time does not exist for subatomic particles or even for single atoms.
It is therefore at its best more inclusively Biblical rather than evangelical only; it is directed indeed to sinful men who need to be
reconciled to God but also to men who need in all
things to grow up into mature manhood in the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ and who are to interpret to others the meaning of Christian faith.
Beyond this, other
things will have to happen if the
reconciling is to go further.
I've also interviewed Christian ministers, a rabbi, a imam and a Buddhist scholar about the significance of their spiritual homes, pressing them to explain how they
reconcile their sometimes opulent houses of worship with the fact that religion is ultimately about transcending worldly
things.
All created
things will be
reconciled in the perfect communion of God with his people.