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Wednesday, March 10, 2004 Good Question...Carol; very good question! That puts our Gary on the spot!!!No, Gary I don't think the guilty party is us if someone we know (even for most of our lives) doesn't come to belief in Christ. Romans 1 tells us that "none are without excuse" which means that the guilty party is the individual who rejects God: For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them. For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse. There was a a chaplain to a school here in Victoria, killed tragically in a car accident, whose death notice by the local community read "he always preached the gospel, using words when necessary". I agree with you, that creation and the corporate church in general is a powerful witness to God, as are the lives of individual Christians (and even this blog!). Interestingly, in that quote from Romans ch.1 above, one of the important things mentioned about God, one of His attributes which is significant in knowing Him, is his divine nature. Which, I believe, includes the divine nature of Christ. I will post here shortly my summary of Paul Barker's first talk on the Trinity. I remember well Charles Price's teaching from Romans ch.1 - went something like "men start on the downward slippery spiral that Paul is taking us through in the latter part of this chapter by first getting God wrong (fail to understand and appreciate who God is), which results in us getting our humanity wrong (fail to understand who God has created us to be - created in God's image). This leads on, and is manifested in getting our sexuality wrong (read it - "For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature; and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error"). So, get God wrong and we'll get our humanity wrong, which in turn leads to getting our sexuality wrong. And Charles Price isn't a Baptist! Ciao. (Stan, where are you???!) # posted by geoff @ 5:10 pm 0 comments
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