Comments on: God’s Attributes http://spreadinggoodness.org/?p=474 Mon, 06 Sep 2010 00:08:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Steve Mitchell http://spreadinggoodness.org/?p=474&cpage=1#comment-1416 Steve Mitchell Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:13:23 +0000 http://spreadinggoodness.org/?p=474#comment-1416 Thanks Ron!! May we always respond to God's offer of Himself, and not a god we find in the mirror. BTW: you inspired my latest post :-) Thanks Ron!! May we always respond to God’s offer of Himself, and not a god we find in the mirror. BTW: you inspired my latest post :-)

]]> By: Ron http://spreadinggoodness.org/?p=474&cpage=1#comment-1411 Ron Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:41:51 +0000 http://spreadinggoodness.org/?p=474#comment-1411 It was a comment offered in a lectureship at Multnomah Bible College & Seminary almost a decade ago. Elements of that series were eventually published as ACT & BEING (I'm working from memory here). I don't recall that he mentions the point in the book. It was a comment offered in a lectureship at Multnomah Bible College & Seminary almost a decade ago. Elements of that series were eventually published as ACT & BEING (I’m working from memory here). I don’t recall that he mentions the point in the book.

]]> By: Carmen http://spreadinggoodness.org/?p=474&cpage=1#comment-1410 Carmen Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:18:22 +0000 http://spreadinggoodness.org/?p=474#comment-1410 Our dean at WLGC passed this on to me because of its relevance to what we are trying to do in teaching theology. Thanks for posting it. What is the source of the quote from Colin Gunton? I found a list of his works but I'm not familiar with them. Our dean at WLGC passed this on to me because of its relevance to what we are trying to do in teaching theology. Thanks for posting it.

What is the source of the quote from Colin Gunton? I found a list of his works but I’m not familiar with them.

]]> By: Terry http://spreadinggoodness.org/?p=474&cpage=1#comment-1404 Terry Mon, 02 Nov 2009 12:01:18 +0000 http://spreadinggoodness.org/?p=474#comment-1404 Thanks again Ron for the perspective check. Thanks again Ron for the perspective check.

]]> By: Bobby Grow http://spreadinggoodness.org/?p=474&cpage=1#comment-1403 Bobby Grow Mon, 02 Nov 2009 09:34:08 +0000 http://spreadinggoodness.org/?p=474#comment-1403 Amen, Ron! I really like how TF Torrance gets at this in re. to knowing God from *within* vs. from *without*. How he presses the <em>vicarious life of Christ</em>, and further presses this through <em>union with Christ</em> language. So that His being becomes the mediator to any knowledge that we have of Him; and any knowledge of Him becomes predicated by our beings being reconciled to Him through the Incarnation/Cross-work. I also like how you use the transitive/intransitive grammar to underscore the competing approaches to knowing God. I hope your message continues to get out; that God is a relationship, that His oneness is shaped by His threeness. Thus our approach to Him and then eachother must be shaped and reshaped by this reality (which is best summarized by: Love God, and Love our neighbor). Thanks Ron! Amen, Ron!

I really like how TF Torrance gets at this in re. to knowing God from *within* vs. from *without*. How he presses the vicarious life of Christ, and further presses this through union with Christ language. So that His being becomes the mediator to any knowledge that we have of Him; and any knowledge of Him becomes predicated by our beings being reconciled to Him through the Incarnation/Cross-work.

I also like how you use the transitive/intransitive grammar to underscore the competing approaches to knowing God. I hope your message continues to get out; that God is a relationship, that His oneness is shaped by His threeness. Thus our approach to Him and then eachother must be shaped and reshaped by this reality (which is best summarized by: Love God, and Love our neighbor).

Thanks Ron!

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