A little blog from an upstart theologian that will do its best to exemplify Christ while sharing a thing or two along the way.
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Monday, April 12, 2004 On EasterSince yesterday is the celebration of the greatest event in all of human history I believe it would be best to post something worthy of that day's significance. Last year I was able to be involved in a reading group with Dr. Jeff Bingham while he was teaching here at my beloved SWBTS. During this one hour a week theological trek we read through Athanasius' On the Incarnation, a marvelous patristic work. Here is an excerpt from that text: "...taking a body like our own, because all our bodies were liable to the corruption of death, He surrendered His body to death in place of all, and offered it to the Father. This He did out of sheer love for us, so that in His death all might die, and the law of death might thereby be abolished because, when He had fulfilled in his body that for which it was appointed, it was thereafter voided of its power for men. This he did that he might turn again to incorruption men who had turned back to corruption, and make them alive through death by the appropriation of His body and by the grace of His resurrection. Thus He would make death to disappear from them as utterly as straw from fire." Christ came to restore the Imago Dei which was rent from our persons through the corporate head of Adam. To counter the sins of the first Adam Christ, the second Adam, came, incarnated flesh, lived sinlessly, died vicariously, and was bodily resurrected. No other religion can claim what Christianity claims. Glory to the Father, Glory to the Son, Glory to the Holy Spirit through whom we find ourselves justified by grace through faith! posted by Preachin Jesus | 2:36 PM | |
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