Theology

See this Comment

Note to self: It really is time to do some proper reading and thinking into preterism

Extremely helpful quotation.

(OK, I can't resist writing this: James reads David who quotes Barb listening to Lusk quoting Leithart)

http://davidpfield.blogspot.com/2006/09/baptism-and-covenant.html

In particular, I've never before seen the conceptual link between the covenant community / elect distinction and the creature / creator distinction. Thanks David for fishing these things out for us.

Before you say,... I know – these observations have been made before and are not new. But…

Here are two true statements:

• God speaks through the Bible
• God speaks through the Holy Spirit

I assume we wish to join the Eastern and Western churches throughout their history in affirming that the Spirit is one of the three persons, that the Spirit is divine, is God. If not, the implications are serious indeed – but it also makes the rest of this post redundant. Proceeding, then, on that assumption…

I could be misconstrued as Binitarian in my recent entry on the Independent “Good List”.

Just to clarify: