God talk

  As human beings we are all part of nature, so we live and die even if we haven’t sinned.   Yet even though this is the case there is an aspect of our life that can go beyond this life death scenario and live forever.   We are not only natural beings of the earth, but we are also spiritual beings that can move beyond the here and now. Unfortunately for humanity Adam sinned, the Fall happened, and we were pulled into this meager existence that leads to both spiritual and physical death.     Bavinck goes beyond this, and he points to some shocking conclusions: A local moose near where we live!   “Life indeed. It goes without saying that this is life, as Holy Scripture often calls it. All other life is temporary, transient, fleeting, and subject to death (even without sin); the vegetative, sensory life cannot last on its own, not even in human beings. Physical life cannot be immortal of itself, not even in Adam, in whom it might have been eternalized through the spiritual. The ration

  You cannot see the sun but you know it is there.  The soul can be a bit like that In today’s world ‘spiritual’ is often used in all sorts of contexts.   Whatever view one takes it is something that happens inside the person.   From a secular point of view scientists have tried to find it in the workings of the mind and give it a purely materialist interpretation.   However even with all the breakthroughs in science and there have been many people are more than the sum of their parts.   To take this materialist view also means to take a biological evolutionary interpretation of our destiny.   I reject this view.   Humanity was not just a big mistake.   Genesis starts with: “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” Genesis 1:1 We are more than the sum of our parts.   God created us for a reason, and we saw this in the garden when God walked with Adam in the garden before the fall.   Humanity was in communion with God and even though the Fall took place God had

  I took this picture recently and the cloud formation reminds me of the Holy Spirit   I want to begin by two verses and thinking about them: 14 The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, be with you all. 2 Corinthians 13:14   And 4 For by these He has granted to us His precious and magnificent promises, so that by them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world by lust. 2 Peter 1:4 When we talk about the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, it has a context.   From the second quotation there is a very explicit statement that we will become sharers in ‘The Divine Nature’.   We will always stay human and created but we are brought into fellowship with ‘God’.   Bavinck contextualizes this for us: “First there is the fellowship of the Holy Spirit convicting of sin, righteousness, and judgment; then that of Christ adopting us and granting us his benefits; thereafter that of t