Understanding God's apparent changes of mind
Oct 1, 2016 0:32:21 GMT
Post by Colossians on Oct 1, 2016 0:32:21 GMT
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UNDERSTANDING GOD’S APPARENT CHANGES OF MIND
The physical creation is that in which the pre-eminence is ascribed not to the Father, not to the Spirit, but to the Second Person of God, Jesus Christ.1
1 See (also) our work: "The necessarily-figurative 1000-year reign of Christ".
The delineation of any and all activities of God is thus necessarily qualified by the disposition of character known as “the mind of Christ” (which disposition the born-again believer also has).
The disposition of character that is the mind of Christ, of necessity manifests itself in tension with that which is merciless, else there were no contrast between grace and law. Thus we read that the law came through Moses, but Grace and Truth through Jesus Christ.
Being creatures in time, and creatures who discern by way of comparison, of necessity we must have such contrast ‘played out’ in time, in linear fashion. Thus we see God’s threatening the annihilation of Israel according to the modality of law when speaking with Moses on the mount, and then the mind of the Second Person (the mind of Christ) stepping in through Moses, and affecting the supposedly-merciless God to the point that He apparently changed His mind.2
2 (See also our work: “The woman in the man and the man in the woman”.)
But although the pragmatics associated with the Second Person constitute an “on second thought” in a time-delimited expression of God, He is not separate from the Triune God, but one therewith, and indeed part thereof. The necessarily-variant activities associated with the segregation of offices of [God the judge according to law] and [God the advocate according to grace] (the latter embodied in Jesus Christ) therefore do not involve a change of God’s mind, but quite the opposite: they are the irresistible steps within the protocol of the unchanging mind of God's timeless, trinitarian state.
We might therefore say that God has changed His mind inasmuch as He replaced the Old Testament with the New, which is to say that He has never changed His mind, for He had already slain Christ from the foundation of the world.3
3 See our work: “The Lamb slain from the foundation of the world”.
Amen.
(See also our works on Statal Calvinism.)
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UNDERSTANDING GOD’S APPARENT CHANGES OF MIND
The physical creation is that in which the pre-eminence is ascribed not to the Father, not to the Spirit, but to the Second Person of God, Jesus Christ.1
1 See (also) our work: "The necessarily-figurative 1000-year reign of Christ".
The delineation of any and all activities of God is thus necessarily qualified by the disposition of character known as “the mind of Christ” (which disposition the born-again believer also has).
The disposition of character that is the mind of Christ, of necessity manifests itself in tension with that which is merciless, else there were no contrast between grace and law. Thus we read that the law came through Moses, but Grace and Truth through Jesus Christ.
Being creatures in time, and creatures who discern by way of comparison, of necessity we must have such contrast ‘played out’ in time, in linear fashion. Thus we see God’s threatening the annihilation of Israel according to the modality of law when speaking with Moses on the mount, and then the mind of the Second Person (the mind of Christ) stepping in through Moses, and affecting the supposedly-merciless God to the point that He apparently changed His mind.2
2 (See also our work: “The woman in the man and the man in the woman”.)
But although the pragmatics associated with the Second Person constitute an “on second thought” in a time-delimited expression of God, He is not separate from the Triune God, but one therewith, and indeed part thereof. The necessarily-variant activities associated with the segregation of offices of [God the judge according to law] and [God the advocate according to grace] (the latter embodied in Jesus Christ) therefore do not involve a change of God’s mind, but quite the opposite: they are the irresistible steps within the protocol of the unchanging mind of God's timeless, trinitarian state.
We might therefore say that God has changed His mind inasmuch as He replaced the Old Testament with the New, which is to say that He has never changed His mind, for He had already slain Christ from the foundation of the world.3
3 See our work: “The Lamb slain from the foundation of the world”.
Amen.
(See also our works on Statal Calvinism.)