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Taming the Tongue. 3 Not many of you should become teachers, my fellow believers, because you know that we who teach will be judged more strictly. 2 We all stumble in many ways. Anyone who is never at fault in what they say is perfect, able to keep their whole body in check. 3 When we put bits into the mouths of horses to make them obey us, we ...
Dec 3, 2008 · A domesticated Jesus embraces the culture’s values without challenging them; He is a “safe” Jesus who is no threat to the established way of doing things. Yet Christ did not come into the world to be “nice” or “safe,” and the Jesus we find in the Gospels cannot be domesticated.
Mar 13, 2012 · Let's sit together to reason about a horrible thing that I've done. I've domesticated the Lord of the universe. Adapted from Domesticated Jesus by Harry L. Kraus Jr. ISBN 978-1-59638-185-8, pages ...
- Infinite Incomprehensibility
- Rethinking Our God-Talk
- Grasp Who God Is Not
- Don’T Read Literalistically
- We See Light in His Light
God is the Perfect Being because he’s not merely unlimited in size but also infinite in essence.While we are finite creatures, bound by limitless limitations, God has none. His essence is inestimable, immeasurable, unfathomable. Or to put it positively, God is his attributes in infinite measure (Ps. 147:5). That means, then, that anything and every...
What does this infinite distance between finite and infinite mean for our knowledge of God? It means that the way to seek him is not by pretending we can conquer his essence. Instead, we know him according to his revelatory works. If we know anything about God, it’s only because he has revealed it to us. It is only because he has—to use John Calvin...
First, it means we should understand who God is by talking about what he is not. Have you ever noticed how certain attributes—attributes that protect God’s incommunicable being—do just that? We are finite creatures and therefore change, for better or worse; we are mutable. Not God. He does not change; he is immutable. We are finite creatures and th...
Second, it means we should read Scripture to understand what is literally true without reading Scripture literalistically. You may not know it, but you do this already. When Scripture says God has eyes, hands, or ears, you naturally assume something analogical is at play. When David prays, “Keep me as the apple of your eye” (Ps. 17:8), you don’t co...
As modern evangelicals, we need to hear afresh this warning from Tertullian (AD 160–220): [It is] palpably absurd of you to be placing human characteristics in God rather than divine ones in man, and clothing God in the likeness of man, instead of man in the image of God. If our God-talk doesn’t respect him who is incomprehensible, we risk worshipi...
Font Size. Genesis 1:26. KJ21. And God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, after Our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.”. ASV.
Dec 30, 2020 · Jesus also repeatedly condemns the rich and powerful, declaring that it is difficult for the wealthy to enter the kingdom of God (e.g., as likely as a camel going through an eye of a sewing needle, which is often incorrectly domesticated as denoting a gate in Jerusalem).
Dec 29, 2018 · He acts in ways we can understand, explain, predict, and even control. He rarely offends us, so we are not embarrassed to talk about him with our friends. He helps us find our meaning and purpose. We think everyone should give him a try. But in the end such a God cannot sustain faith.
