The Way of Love: Learn
“Scripture is like a river again, broad and deep, shallow enough here for the lamb to go wading, but deep enough there for the elephant to swim.” We can never quit learning.
Augustine
Adam & the Fall – Blame – Gen. 3:8-19
The man said, “The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me fruit of the treee, and I ate.”
The Story of Creation – Week 3(a) – Genesis 1:1b-2
The merism of “heaven and earth” express the totality of the cosmic phenomena at creation.
Chapter 19 – On Interpreting the mind of the sacred writer, Christians should not talk nonsense to unbelievers.
It is disgraceful for an infidel to hear a Christian, presumably giving the meaning of Holy Scripture, talking nonsense on these topics; and we must prevent such an embarrassing situation, where people show vast ignorance in a Christian and laugh it to scorn.
James 1:12-15
The three necessary and sufficient conditions for committing a sin are: receiving an evil suggestion, taking pleasure in the thought of performing the act suggested, and consenting to perform the act.
Becoming a Healing Presence: Sacrament of the Present Moment, pt.1
God is eternally present. Therefore, it is only in our experience of the present that we “have the experience God has of reality as a whole.”
Romans 13, pt.2
What does it look like to have love govern all things. If love is the lens through which to interpret Scripture, how do our Bibles readings change? If love governs our actions, how does our behaviour change? If love dictates our thoughts, how does we change?
Romans 5, pt.2
Do not understand our reconciliation to God through the death of Christ as if He now began to love those whom He formerly hated, in the same way as enemies are reconciled so that they become friends; but we were reconciled unto Him who already loved us, but with whom we were at enmity because sin.
Romans 5, pt.1
Focusing on Adam and sin in Romans 5 is similar to focusing on the shadows and background of a painting to the detriment of seeing the brightness and centrality of the subject matter. Paul’s proclaims the gospel of the risen Christ and not to answer the question of why we sin.
The Great Divorce, Ch. 12-14, pt.1
Lewis’s teaching is that if we can begin to wrap our heads around the idea that the movement of time is simply an illusion, then the stark difference between creation/annihilation, universalism/election, and predestination/freedom disappears.