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Defining Incomprehensibility Incomprehensibility is that theological concept that, negatively, means what cannot be known of God, and, positively, means that only particulars can be known of God without fully circumscribing the entirety of Him. I don’t want to commit an etymological fallacy, by any means, but I’ll just mention that the Latin form had connotations…
I started this post just reviewing patristic quotes of immutability, but as I’ve thought through the idea, I think that I need to review definitions of some basic words used in theology and philosophy, and really think through some implications. I’ve decided this post should be split into multiple posts. I should probably also re-write…
I’ve not written any personal reflections in quite a while. For one reason, it is because I went through a brutal divorce. For another, it is because I’ve been pondering a lot, and I hate to release anything that isn’t based in well-researched writing. But, now I’ve decided that I should just write about what…
God, who knows what crimes out to be restrained by civil pains, has ordained that the violation of this day (Sabbath) is of that character [that] such restraints can be imposed by the civil government only. James R. Willson, “The Sabbath and Civil Government”
Of what was it to be loved and lose one’s beauty and become Real if it all ended like this? -The Velveteen Rabbit
We have not been made gods from the beginning, but at first merely men, then at length gods; although God has adopted this course out of His pure benevolence. -Irenaeus, Against Heresies
“But before the foundation of the world were we, who, because destined to be in Him, pre-existed in the eye of God before, —we the rational creatures of the Word of God, on whose account we date from the beginning; for ‘in the beginning was the Word.’” -Clement of Alexandria, Exhortation to the Heathen
The works of God with respect to Himself and His creatures : 1. Immanent/Internal Works (ad intra) 2. Transient/External Works (ad extra) Some Notes:
He has acknowledged the cup…as His own blood, from which He bedews our blood; and the bread…He has established as His own body, from which He gives increase to our own bodies. -Irenaeus, Against Heresies Again, as a Protestant, don’t know what to think of this.
“More senseless than stones is a man who is steeped in ignorance.” -Clement of Alexandria, Exhortation to the Heathen