|
|
| |
 - Endorsed - Indifferent - Contested
|
| |
| The Nashville Statement
|
| |
|
|
| |
Name:Daniel
Home: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
About Me: I used to believe that evolution was reasonable, that homosexuality was genetic, and that people became Christians because they couldn't deal with the 'reality' that this life was all there was. I used to believe, that if there was a heaven - I could get there by being good - and I used to think I was more or less a good person. I was wrong on all counts. One day I finally had my eyes opened and I saw that I was not going to go to heaven, but that I was certainly going to suffer the wrath of God for all my sin. I saw myself as a treasonous rebel at heart - I hated God for creating me just to send me to Hell - and I was wretched beyond my own comprehension. Into this spiritual vacuum Jesus Christ came and he opened my understanding - delivering me from God's wrath into God's grace. I was "saved" as an adult, and now my life is hid in Christ. I am by no means sinless, but by God's grace I am a repenting believer - a born again Christian.
My complete profile...
|
| |
Daniel's posts are almost always pastoral and God centered. I appreciate and am challenged by them frequently. He has a great sense of humor as well.
- Marc Heinrich
His posts are either funny or challenging. He is very friendly and nice.
- Rose Cole
[He has] good posts, both the serious like this one, and the humorous like yesterday. [He is] the reason that I have restrained myself from making Canadian jokes in my posts.
- C-Train
This post contains nothing that is of any use to me. What were you thinking? Anyway, it's probably the best I've read all day.
- David Kjos
Daniel, nicely done and much more original than Frank the Turk.
- Jonathan Moorhead
There are some people who are smart, deep, or funny. There are not very many people that are all 3. Daniel is one of those people. His opinion, insight and humor have kept me coming back to his blog since I first visited earlier this year.
- Carla Rolfe
|
| |
|
email
|
|
| Jesus was both God and Man |
Growing up without scripture, I inherited much theological folklore from my mother. She was catholic, and educated in a catholic school until grade five. She could recite the Rosary from memory, but hadn't cracked a bible open in her life. From her I learned that Jesus was God's son, and that he died on the cross in order to possibly save us from sin if we were good enough.
The deity of Jesus Christ was emphasized - that is, Jesus was God in the form of a man.
I knew that Jesus was human of course, He certainly ate, slept, breathed and eventually bleed while on the earth - but it was equally clear that Jesus was not merely a man - since He was also all knowing and all powerful.
Jesus looked like a human - but He was God through and through.
It wasn't until after I came to Christ and began studying the scripture's that I was able to divest myself of this notion. Scripture teaches that Jesus did what He did in the power of the Holy Spirit as opposed to in His own power. Jesus, we are told, emptied Himself and came to earth as a man of low birth. He lived by the same faith that we are expected to live - and did nothing in His own strength.
When I finally understood that Jesus, although fully God, remained entirely human on earth - it opened my eyes about a few things.
I used to think - well, Jesus did that - but hey, He is God, and I am not. I can't be expected to be perfect like Jesus - I am just a man.
Yet as I begin to understand the new covenant, I begin to see an absolute necessity that Jesus be understood as being entirely and completely human during His tenure on earth. He was still God - but while on earth He did nothing of Himself - any omniscience He seemed to possess He was given by the Holy Spirit - it was not His own, but imparted to Him through the Holy Spirit. That is why they blasphemed the Holy Spirit when they said He was casting out demons by the power of the devil - He wasn't casting out the demons in His own power - but by the "Finger of God" (the Holy Spirit).
What God did for Christ, He can do for all of us.
|
posted by Daniel @
12:25 PM
 
|
|
|
|
|
|
