The work of my hands and my body pauses any existential crisis, the daily
work of living redeems, and I feel the acedia fading with each day of right choices, one after another, each step of pushing back the darkness with fabric softener, veggies, backyard camping, laughter seeking, and newly - white bookcases in the fading sun.
Not exact matches
And here is where the Church's great communal story offers its aid: for it is the responsibility
of the «many members
of the one body,» who collectively celebrate and enact that story, to guide each individual member into paths, into
life genres, that harmonize with the great melody
of God's
redeeming work in His creation.
At the Easter Vigil after the first reading from Genesis chapter 1, describing the creation
of the universe by God, the prayer that follows says: «Almighty ever -
living God, who are wonderful in the ordering
of all your
works, may those you have
redeemed understand that there exists nothing more marvellous than the world's creation in the beginning except that, at the end
of the ages, Christ our Passover has been sacrificed.»
The agape which
redeems and reconciles does one
of its greatest
works in the infusing
of the sexual
life with the spirit
of humility and charity.
If the church's theology were informed more by biblical expectations
of a
redeemed creation and less by general religious longings for ecstatic experience and timeless truth, Christians would find themselves at the very least congenial toward those who, with a passionate «loyalty to things» and a «cosmic act
of allegiance,» struggle to unpack the secrets
of life on this planet and to
work with it toward a new day.
It seems the most likely scenario is that he married his sister or less likely his niece.The reasoning is that Adam and Eve
lived alot longer and continued to have sons and daughters GEN5: 4 aCTS 17:26 Paul tells us that the God who made the world hath made
of one blood all nations
of man to dwell on all the face
of the earth.Cain did nt marry to another tribe or nation as every man and women was a relative and
of the same bloodline
of Adam and Eve.The importance
of this is that sin entered through one man Adam and is past through the bloodline so redemption is only possible through the same bloodline.So for the formula to
work the human genome had to stay the same no other tribes or nations just the descendents
of Adam and Eve.It also solves another riddle in that satan at various times prior to the flood and after the flood tried to contaminate the bloodline by his angels having sexual relations with the women this created a type
of alien in essence and would have not been able to have been
redeemed by the blood
of Jesus as it wasnt fully human.This is where the giants came from and why God wanted to destroy them as they had the potential to destroy the human race as they couldnt be
redeemed by the blood
of Jesus.Interesting?
They use David Bebbington's scheme
of marks that identify evangelicalism: conversionism (an emphasis on the new birth as a
life - changing experience), biblicism (reliance on the Bible as ultimate authority), activism (a commitment to evangelizing), and crucicentrism (a focus on Christ's
redeeming work on the cross, usually pictured as the only way
of salvation).
God's
redeeming work in Jesus Christ embraces the whole
of human
life: social and cultural, economic and political, scientific and technological, individual and corporate.
Time is incorporated into eternity through the eschatological consummation
of God's creating and
redeeming work, and this
work itself constitutes the eternal perichoresis
of the three persons making up the trinitarian
life.
All will be held and that God is at
work to bring redemption and reconciliation, and at the end
of all things, we don't escape from the goodness that pursues us, the
life we are promised, the love that
redeems.
Let it be true, and don't let anyone silence you or the
redeeming work of Christ in your
life out
of shame.
May you
live your
life in the cadence
of the
redeemed and resurrected: others first, pay attention, open heart,
work well, rest radically, open doors,
live prophetically, make room in your
life to be inconvenienced, challenge, love well — be brave together.
He would then rise from the dead, defeating death, and ascend into heaven, and if a man or woman will repent, and put their trust in the
redeeming work of Christ, God will demonstrate His loving - kindness, grace, and mercy towards them by forgiving all
of their sins and granting them everlasting
life.
If it is the
work of love to create, to reconcile and to
redeem, that
work will be done in each age and
life in ways which are shaped by the situations which love meets.