Travis Finley
7 years ago
RIGHT!! God is the mightiest.
Travis Finley
7 years ago
Here it is: you want to believe like Kurt does. So do it. Believe. Augustine say'd "I believe that I might understand." Many require understanding before they believe. But this is the issue for you, Jonathan: believe; start. If you say you can't, why? Why can't you? That's the core issue. Let's start there. I'd love to talk further with you about this.
Travis Finley
7 years ago
He has revealed himself. The Bible is the great equaliser: all men are required to respond to that same revelation. Thats all you're going to get.
Travis Finley
7 years ago
Freedom is the ability to choose what you desire and you choose that which you want most at that moment.
Travis Finley
7 years ago
Death is a natural. Eating food is the death of the plant.
Travis Finley
7 years ago
Sorry for puking all over the comments.
Defenders Media
7 years ago
Thanks for your comments, Travis. We have a caller waiting in the screening room so we're going to take his call and then might address your comments.
Travis Finley
7 years ago
Jesus as God incarnate, the union of God and man, was what the redemptive story was all about. St. Paul tells us that at just the right moment in history God brought forth his son. This doesn't mean merely that the timing was right because of Rome; this means that God's plan in history was always to bring Jesus to accomplish for man immortality and glorification. In other words, God's history was a pregnant story of preparation and when that history was ready to "push," God sent forth his Son to be born.
Travis Finley
7 years ago
Each and every law has to do with the redemptive story, many of which we never see carried out. For instance, "boiling a kid in its mother's milk" is and has to do with the anticipation of the coming kingdom.
To put it bluntly, because you dont understand the nature of the symbolic nature of the laws, you reject the revelation. That is a lot like what Jesus say'd to the leaders of Israel: you keep the law bc you think it gives you life; but the law is about me--it was a map to me and if you reject me, you reject the map you love so much.
Travis Finley
7 years ago
What was it that led you away from believing the stories of redemption? You bring up "a warm feeling," but that is not my standard; if I based my faith on my feelings, I'd have ditched this tradition a long time ago. So, it seems something "happened" that caused you to take a left turn.
Travis Finley
7 years ago
Redemptive history, the Bible, is a revelation. It's a revelatory story of how God used one particular nation to prepare the nations for the incarnation which becomes the basis for the exaltation and glorification of humanity in union with God as they participate with him in the rule and reign of his kingdom.
