tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8320313747187588188.post8417689044052487353..comments2024-03-18T15:12:32.652-07:00Comments on Left Behind and Loving It: The Being of the Son of Man when the Son of Man is not Being the Son of ManD. Mark Davishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12016377712982292924noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8320313747187588188.post-11326133848531236012023-11-26T06:20:50.327-08:002023-11-26T06:20:50.327-08:00And another thought. There are different words tr...And another thought. There are different words translated 'devil' - satanas (adversary) and diabolos (slanderer). Here it's diabolos and the messengers of diabolos. Is it too far a stretch to consider that the slander is the dehumanization of those who are then not seen as worthy of aid? That the 'goats' characterize some as less 'human' than others, and therefore don't see/know when they've failed to help the 'least' (and no mention here of 'adelphos')?Bill Schlesingerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14304598437917344802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8320313747187588188.post-86658647868498843152023-11-26T05:56:13.421-08:002023-11-26T05:56:13.421-08:00So another question - This is the answer to the &#...So another question - This is the answer to the 'what will be the sign of your coming (parousia) and the syntelia of the aion (fulfillment of the age) - what do you think is the age that's being fulfilled? Rome's rule? Bill Schlesingerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14304598437917344802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8320313747187588188.post-26863112418307201402020-11-29T06:38:36.003-08:002020-11-29T06:38:36.003-08:00I'd be quite interested in seeing the sermon t...I'd be quite interested in seeing the sermon that emerged from your wrestlings here, Bill. Of course, like me on many occasions, you may have wrestled with old theological issues during the week and preached on something else entirely. Still ... if you went in this direction, I'd like to see it.D. Mark Davishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12016377712982292924noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8320313747187588188.post-60917248376839483582020-11-29T06:35:54.245-08:002020-11-29T06:35:54.245-08:00Hmm... did the "fully human, fully divine&quo...Hmm... did the "fully human, fully divine" formula intend to speak only of Jesus' brief sojourn among us once upon a time, or as his essential way of being? <br />MDD. Mark Davishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12016377712982292924noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8320313747187588188.post-43493121768688802362020-11-22T05:23:20.872-08:002020-11-22T05:23:20.872-08:00Still here! κόλασιν also has the sense of correct...Still here! κόλασιν also has the sense of correction; its root includes pruning. So the Age of Correction? Has a sense of hope to it, no?Bill Schlesingerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14304598437917344802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8320313747187588188.post-66284608672933639222020-11-22T05:08:24.181-08:002020-11-22T05:08:24.181-08:00Predestination may be a confessional stance reflec...Predestination may be a confessional stance reflecting the internal sense of having been grasped by something beyond one's self; Free Will may be the external version of seeing people make different choices in similar circumstances. Both circle around the reality of people with moments of care and moments of separation, and life journeys that may markedly reflect one aspect or the other.Bill Schlesingerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14304598437917344802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8320313747187588188.post-23008153455376794392020-11-22T05:04:42.678-08:002020-11-22T05:04:42.678-08:00πῦρ τὸ αἰώνιον - 'Age' has been discussed ...πῦρ τὸ αἰώνιον - 'Age' has been discussed before in the context of zoe - life. Maybe here life in the 'Fire Age' is the underlying reality for those who live without being grasped by compassion. Bill Schlesingerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14304598437917344802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8320313747187588188.post-66537582458647568462020-11-22T04:53:31.665-08:002020-11-22T04:53:31.665-08:00Both infra and supra reflect a projected image of ...Both infra and supra reflect a projected image of a ruler in control of systems and ask to judge or justify the ethical capacity of that ruler. The underlying reality - foundation (basileia) - of life is just that - the way life is. Jesus discloses that underlying reality and embodies it, not as a controlling decider but as both trusting and championing it. The foundationing of compassion belongs to the center of life since the 'beginning of the kosmos' - and the logical model of a 'designer deity' is as irrelevant to that reality as it is to the fact of entropy in the universe.<br />Bill Schlesingerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14304598437917344802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8320313747187588188.post-78582011217772768572020-11-21T14:36:41.882-08:002020-11-21T14:36:41.882-08:00I’d offer that maybe it doesn’t matter- whether th...I’d offer that maybe it doesn’t matter- whether the Least are missionaries or actual hungry or poor. The important point to me is that the King who sits on the throne has also identified with, or been indwelling in these Least, whoever they are, reminding us That this is where the kingdom lies.Ellen Rohan Ballhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05937003145636004009noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8320313747187588188.post-53093239363556915182020-11-21T14:36:28.779-08:002020-11-21T14:36:28.779-08:00I’d offer that maybe it doesn’t matter- whether th...I’d offer that maybe it doesn’t matter- whether the Least are missionaries or actual hungry or poor. The important point to me is that the King who sits on the throne has also identified with, or been indwelling in these Least, whoever they are, reminding us That this is where the kingdom lies.Ellen Rohan Ballhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05937003145636004009noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8320313747187588188.post-73777607145428017872020-11-20T18:21:37.163-08:002020-11-20T18:21:37.163-08:00I am thinking that Jesus fully human fully divine ...I am thinking that Jesus fully human fully divine is still limited in this corporeal body and that is why he does not speak of 'his' return but in the third person, a part of the trinity-yet.<br />Ken Wellshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15677335230634184445noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8320313747187588188.post-58614874745811665492020-11-17T11:51:51.291-08:002020-11-17T11:51:51.291-08:00I read the blessed in vs. 34 in relationship to th...I read the blessed in vs. 34 in relationship to the beatitudes in Matthew 5 rather than the sending of the disciples in Matthew 10.The Rev. John Kirkleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17915490727988762513noreply@blogger.com