tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6984861.post116613180591835515..comments2023-10-12T03:10:09.276-07:00Comments on emerging thought...: Update on the Last Post... Once again I am a hereticAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08894632401827590745noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6984861.post-1166197145547309492006-12-15T07:39:00.000-08:002006-12-15T07:39:00.000-08:00Steven,If this person wanted to discuss how Jesus ...Steven,<BR/><BR/>If this person wanted to discuss how Jesus was the God/man (which I do believe that Jesus emptied himself of his divinity and walked as a man... for he overcame the world and overcame sin... as the words of the Angel to Jacob prophesied... "Your name is Israel, for you have wrestled with God and man and have overcome." Jesus overcame sin, and death... in that Jesus "overcame" there had to be the danger the He might not overcome these things... and that is why I say "mere man"... to elevate Jesus to some God/Man who walked around doing miracles in His own power denies the scripture where Jesus emptied Himself... which He did. It denies Jesus depended on the Father… and it teaches that Jesus saw equality with God to be grasped.<BR/><BR/>Once in the incarnation as God became a man... and also as He poured Himself out as the sin offering on the cross.<BR/><BR/>Again, there are many scriptures that teach as I have said, so as far as what I teach I have no issue that it is heretical... <BR/><BR/><BR/>The true disgrace, (besides my giving these men an opportunity to judge and condemn me) is that these men claim to know and defend God (which I see needs no defending if God id God) and in that set out to destroy others in the process... God is in the reconciliations business and Satan is in the destroying business.<BR/><BR/>I hope i will earn from all this and keep focus on my vocation... and not let these men distract me from that calling.<BR/><BR/>Blessings, <BR/>iggyAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08894632401827590745noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6984861.post-1166181929678742672006-12-15T03:25:00.000-08:002006-12-15T03:25:00.000-08:00I do pray...we who are supposed to be the Church c...I do pray...we who are supposed to be the Church canm be so un-grace-filled...it rends my heart, and if there is an emotion between anger and sadness, that is where I am with respect to things like this. now, i would never argue any Rodney-King ecclesiology (can't-we-all-just-get-along), because i think debate is healthy and keeps us in that 'radical middle' of truth. yet at the same time, Jesus said the world would know us by our love...this doesn't do that.<BR/><BR/>peace<BR/><BR/>stevenAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com