We dare not move beyond the biblical limits of the Gospel; but we can not be fully evangelical without recognizing our need to learn from other times and movements concerning
the whole meaning of that Gospel.
Not exact matches
This
means that there is a double revelation
of God, and this duality permeates the
whole system
of theological categories and lies at the base
of the familiar distinctions between God hidden and revealed (deus absconditus et deus revelatus), creation and redemption, law and
gospel, the two kingdoms, and so on.
yes this is true but complex as well, in that many are misled and not given the
whole scope
of the
gospel... Professing and Possessing go hand in hand... and we who are truly born again will be able to spiritually discern what this
means.
I
mean that the
whole experience
of imprisonment is absolutely central to the coherence and credibility
of the
Gospel message.
In America many Christians who insist on a literal interpretation
of anything in the Bible are often ready to say «but, in this case, Jesus didn't really
mean...» when both Jesus and the author
of this
Gospel labor to convey «You aren't supposed to try to take the live
of other things on Earth... that's the
whole point, I want you to take on life that only I can offer!»
And if the Old Testament is invalid, then Jesus being the Messiah
means nothing, and the
whole of the
Gospel is forfeited.
This meeting in Edinburgh is a gathering
of missionary specialists, in the main, who come together to exchange views on the ways and
means of executing the Lord's command to preach the
gospel to the
whole creation.
«The
whole gospel for the
whole person and the
whole world»
means that we can not leave any area
of human life and suffering without the witness
of hope.
The first
of these alternatives is exemplified in the Fourth
Gospel, where the
meaning of the return
of Christ is all but exhausted in the coming
of the Spirit upon the church and where the
whole content
of redemption is involved in the incarnation, which is a past event — present and future only in the sense that it is perpetuated in the life
of the community.
It may well be true that the
whole meaning of eschatology is for us fulfilled in the revelation in Christ — that is, in the active presence in Christ as known within the church —
of the eternal order, the kingdom
of God: the Fourth
Gospel has some such conception.
The word «
gospel»
means good news, but most presentations
of the
gospel do not contain a
whole lot
of good news.
The words carry a weight
of meaning from the
whole gospel.
As time goes buy the kind defenders
of free will over their rejection to «dead» here and colossians 2:13 tend to resort to a familiar defense, that
of labeling it a Calvinist viewpoint and that its almost a cultist view point to hold.Very sad yet very much the defense
of many christians.Dead may i suggest is dead, the inability to respond, does not
mean that prior to being saved one could not read scripture but because
of this spiritual deadness its not profitabel / meaningful - we just can not continue to revise the
meaning of dead to fit a view point - because natural man has not been born again this deadness (spiritually) shows itself as «none seek after God», in this condition they are» slaves to sin» and the spiritual things
of God (the bible) is «folly / foolishness» even the
gospel is judged by natural man as «folly / foolishness «(1 cor.1: 18) Please stop with this weak / common defense called Calvinism - many believers are truly turned off by such a defense.We must not forget the man's «free will» is what took the
whole human race down in the garden; i would hope we can rise above our love affair with the human will.
I think it's important for me to say... and this probably deserves a
whole different post... that just because I draw pictures
of Jesus, it doesn't necessarily
mean I believe that there was the historical Jesus as presented in the
gospels or that Jesus is alive today in the way evangelicals or Catholics or others believe.