LIFE-GIVING MARY
13/11/24 15:23
It’s not uncommon to be baptised into a body of belief. This is not the same as being baptised into the Body of Christ, although it may lead to it. Christianity, although a belief system is not primarily a pattern of beliefs. It is Christ as you and as us.
The Christian doctrine of God is Jesus Christ and our union with Him.
LETTER/LIFE
Thus, rather than propositions to be attached to, Kingdom Life is a state of being one with God in Jesus Christ. We can claim ‘belonging’ in the Body without this kind of belonging. But it’s the difference between words and The Word. One is ‘the letter’ and the other is union with God. Avoid Christianity that is religion but not Kingdom. The latter is ‘with authority and not as the scribes.
GOD DECLARED IN JESUS
“[The Fathers] were concerned with God and not with the divine. Philo’s idea of a God who speaks, who declares Himself, is given a sharper edge and more immediacy when, with the Fathers, he becomes the God who speaks and declares Himself in the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth. To know God is to accept that revelation, to participate in God’s self-communication thus made known. So for most of the Fathers (with only rare exceptions) the ‘mystical life’ is the ultimate flowering of the life of baptism, the life we receive when we share in Christ’s death and risen life by being baptized in water and the Holy Spirit.” Baptism means our passing from death in Adam to spirit and life in Christ.
JESUS REVEALED HIMSELF TO US
God speaks to us before we know who God is. He desires our company and seeks to make Himself known. In a sense, God is un-knowable and in reality He is made known in Jesus Christ. Once we have met the Christ of God our progress in knowing ourselves and God accelerates. If humble enough, we will increase in the knowledge of the world as well as in an understanding of spiritual realities. God is not an abstraction. He is in you and with you sharing Himself with your deep person.
TO BECOME HUMAN
To make the law the issue of life is to miss the point of our salvation. It makes Jesus an abstraction and you a religious construct. If you are smart enough to relate to Jesus as Himself rather than accommodate yourself to a legalised belief system, you will increase in your knowing of God, your ability to separate life from the common degrees of death and you will know yourself and who you are in Father. This will insulate you from the muffled life of the religious and the Christian workaholism of Martha defined Christianity.
The Christian doctrine of God is Jesus Christ and our union with Him.
LETTER/LIFE
Thus, rather than propositions to be attached to, Kingdom Life is a state of being one with God in Jesus Christ. We can claim ‘belonging’ in the Body without this kind of belonging. But it’s the difference between words and The Word. One is ‘the letter’ and the other is union with God. Avoid Christianity that is religion but not Kingdom. The latter is ‘with authority and not as the scribes.
GOD DECLARED IN JESUS
“[The Fathers] were concerned with God and not with the divine. Philo’s idea of a God who speaks, who declares Himself, is given a sharper edge and more immediacy when, with the Fathers, he becomes the God who speaks and declares Himself in the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth. To know God is to accept that revelation, to participate in God’s self-communication thus made known. So for most of the Fathers (with only rare exceptions) the ‘mystical life’ is the ultimate flowering of the life of baptism, the life we receive when we share in Christ’s death and risen life by being baptized in water and the Holy Spirit.” Baptism means our passing from death in Adam to spirit and life in Christ.
JESUS REVEALED HIMSELF TO US
God speaks to us before we know who God is. He desires our company and seeks to make Himself known. In a sense, God is un-knowable and in reality He is made known in Jesus Christ. Once we have met the Christ of God our progress in knowing ourselves and God accelerates. If humble enough, we will increase in the knowledge of the world as well as in an understanding of spiritual realities. God is not an abstraction. He is in you and with you sharing Himself with your deep person.
TO BECOME HUMAN
To make the law the issue of life is to miss the point of our salvation. It makes Jesus an abstraction and you a religious construct. If you are smart enough to relate to Jesus as Himself rather than accommodate yourself to a legalised belief system, you will increase in your knowing of God, your ability to separate life from the common degrees of death and you will know yourself and who you are in Father. This will insulate you from the muffled life of the religious and the Christian workaholism of Martha defined Christianity.
