"Mystery of Christ and why we don’t get it" - Robert Farrar Capon
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..... the only thing that will leave me with problems
is my non-acceptance of his FULL acceptance,
of me into his party of Joy .....
is my non-acceptance of his FULL acceptance,
of me into his party of Joy .....
some parables on full acceptance :
The Prodigal Father. (L15)
The Talents (L19)
The Virgins (M25)
The Wedding Banquet (M22)
One Lost Sheep (L15)
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“He is trying to tell us that there is a party already
going on
despite our works,
and that if we only trust,
we’ll realize we’re already okay…..
He’s not into moral theology, he’s into party
theology.
He’s not talking about works that can be rewarded or punished;
He’s talking about faith in something already in full swing.”
He’s not talking about works that can be rewarded or punished;
He’s talking about faith in something already in full swing.”
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"... these concepts that portray God as an angry
, hard to please parent ,
and his church as a domineering grown-up issuing
threats to willful kids -
is bad news - not Gospel
.... lead not to liberty ... to which Christ set us
free ...
but to a servile mentality that kills courage
and breeds resentment."
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"The fallen world already imposes enough invidious divisions on us;
we don't need to add another one
that sorts us into spiritual hotshots
who've paid a lot for their grace
and spiritual louts who've cheated on the price.
As I've said several times now,
Grace has no price - it is free."
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".. hell is a condition of a totally non-congruent response to Grace,
a choosing of one's own, nonexistent version of "reality" over
God's freely given, reconciled reality."
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"The Mystery of Christ is operative in us whether we know it or not,
or whether we get a proper handle on it or not.
The power of Jesus death and resurrection
makes a New Creation of the whole world;
after that, any response we may make to it is distinctly secondary -
and if that response is an inconvenience to anybody,
at most it's only an inconvenience to ourselves."
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It's like a dance -
a big formal party that everybody is already invited to and present at.
Now what happens at a dance ?
When the band starts to play almost everybody decides
to trust the 'new world' of the dance ...
... the dance of the Mystery of Christ - is always going on ....
The music of the Mystery is hidden music ...
we dance, in trust, in it ....
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... this quest for the "history behind the history" ....
to provide a way around certain perceived difficulties with biblical literalism ...
is itself [flawed] because there is nothing original ...
Jesus spoke in Aramaic and we read translations from the 'original Greek' ...
Even if we had everything original,
we still need to decide to believe in The Word Incarnate,
then allow the Holy Spirit to reveal the cosmic Mystery of Christ ...
... Those propositions can be arrived at only
on the basis of trust in Jesus, not evidence; ...
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Works are always productions, operations, acts of making or doing;
they invariably call for knowledge on our part of what needs to be done
and capacity on our part, to do it.
Faith, by contrast, is an activity of trusting somebody else's knowledge
and capacity to accomplish something we couldn't manage -
and in the case of faith in the Mystery of the Incarnation,
of trusting God to accomplish it in a way
that looks for all the world like doing nothing whatsoever.
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Krisis (grk) = judgement; similar to crisis.
In a crisis, it is hope for a favourable outcome from a decision.
The judgement is not condemnation.
In the judgment parables,
The "God" character effectively declares the human character's innocence.
The final outcome of the "human" character is not based what they did,
but what they believed.
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Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound?
God forbid!
God forbid is actually "me genoito' = won't happen.
Grace can't be anymore bountiful, whether there are sins or not.
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"Mystery of Christ and why we don’t get it" - Robert Farrar Capon
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a choosing of one's own, nonexistent version of "reality" over
God's freely given, reconciled reality."
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"The Mystery of Christ is operative in us whether we know it or not,
or whether we get a proper handle on it or not.
The power of Jesus death and resurrection
makes a New Creation of the whole world;
after that, any response we may make to it is distinctly secondary -
and if that response is an inconvenience to anybody,
at most it's only an inconvenience to ourselves."
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It's like a dance -
a big formal party that everybody is already invited to and present at.
Now what happens at a dance ?
When the band starts to play almost everybody decides
to trust the 'new world' of the dance ...
... the dance of the Mystery of Christ - is always going on ....
The music of the Mystery is hidden music ...
we dance, in trust, in it ....
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... this quest for the "history behind the history" ....
to provide a way around certain perceived difficulties with biblical literalism ...
is itself [flawed] because there is nothing original ...
Jesus spoke in Aramaic and we read translations from the 'original Greek' ...
Even if we had everything original,
we still need to decide to believe in The Word Incarnate,
then allow the Holy Spirit to reveal the cosmic Mystery of Christ ...
... Those propositions can be arrived at only
on the basis of trust in Jesus, not evidence; ...
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Works are always productions, operations, acts of making or doing;
they invariably call for knowledge on our part of what needs to be done
and capacity on our part, to do it.
Faith, by contrast, is an activity of trusting somebody else's knowledge
and capacity to accomplish something we couldn't manage -
and in the case of faith in the Mystery of the Incarnation,
of trusting God to accomplish it in a way
that looks for all the world like doing nothing whatsoever.
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Krisis (grk) = judgement; similar to crisis.
In a crisis, it is hope for a favourable outcome from a decision.
The judgement is not condemnation.
In the judgment parables,
The "God" character effectively declares the human character's innocence.
The final outcome of the "human" character is not based what they did,
but what they believed.
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Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound?
God forbid!
God forbid is actually "me genoito' = won't happen.
Grace can't be anymore bountiful, whether there are sins or not.
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"Mystery of Christ and why we don’t get it" - Robert Farrar Capon
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Good stuff :0
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