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While Merriam-Webster may say life is simply the duration of time between birth and death, the Bible displays to us a God who refuses to back down on His definition of life. Though we have taken it upon ourselves to define living as dying, the eternal Word that decided the cosmos remains in stark contrast.
Jan 5, 2011 · The exchange of meaning can happen through Presence—gestures, silent companionship, or touch. What are the theological meanings attached to such communications? Presence means something theologically: You are not alone.
Long before some Jews in later Old Testament times began to hope for resurrection (such as Job in Job 19:25-27), God’s people learned to think theologically of dying as a sign also of what happens to our spiritual wellbeing if we separate ourselves from God and choose instead the way of sin.
- Introduction and Definitions
- Theological Understanding and The Creator-Creature Distinction
- Theological Understanding and The Nature and Extent of Sin
- Theological Understanding and The New Creation and Final Judgment
The term “theology,” combining theos (God) and logos(word about, or study of), refers most literally to the study of God. Yet this term is used for the study of humanity, and sin, and salvation, and the church, and last things (and more). The reason “theology” may rightly be used of these other areas is this: theology is the study of God and his re...
One of the most important aspects of a Christian worldview is affirming what is sometimes called the Creator-creature distinction. God, as eternal, self-existent, self-sufficient, infinite, simple, and omnipotent, exists eternally independent of anything created and finite in the infinite fullness of life and joy as the Triune God. Since the world ...
Consider also some aspects of a correct theological understanding of the nature of our sin and of the salvation God has brought to us in Christ. One of the starkest contrasts between a Christian with a theologically-informed worldview and that of the culture of which we are apart is the basic understanding of why bad things happen and what to do ab...
Of the many areas of theology we could rightly consider further, may we look lastly to the difference a correct theological understanding makes regarding the end of history and the establishing of the new creation. Certainly there are areas here that have frustrated full consensus among thoughtful Christian thinkers over the centuries. We differ ov...
Apr 10, 2020 · Christia nity’s monotheism means that all life (except. God’s) is taken as a derivation of God’s own life. The divine creation of life is seen as having its high point in the creation of ...
Apr 14, 2022 · The theology of death is the study of what the Bible says about human death and what takes place in the afterlife. Generally, the topic includes why people die, how Christians should view death, and what we should expect in the afterlife.
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If the Christian tradition speaks of God in crucifixion, it does not stop there—it speaks of resurrection. Process theologians think of God as the resurrection in a variety of ways, the most important of which is the creative transformation that God works for the world within the divine nature.
