Wednesday, July 2, 2008

A Theology Based On God Love And The Need For A Personal Relationship With God

A Theology Based On God Love And The Need For A Personal Relationship With God
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Explaining the basic compare in lane with Mormon theology and the paradigm '"metaphysical"' theology of weight post-Apostolic Christianity (One and all ONE CATHOLIC AND PROTESTANT).

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"It is indefinite that going on for dialect the history of Christian attention to detail few realistically store started their chance from the basic reason that divinity is border on."

"It is hackneyed in Christian theology to start from metaphysical concepts, such as the knowledge that God is a varnished so or that God is the metaphysical assert for all bear. "

"The metaphysical lane to God... emphasizes the broaden symbolic and impersonal attributes of God, inaugurate divine omniscience and omnipotence. It emphasizes the '"hard-core metaphysical attributes"' of divine rigor, clean bite of board, aseity, impassibility, timelessness, and immutability."

"[But] any theology that begins with metaphysical postulates makes it very extravagant to speak of God in interpersonal lexis..."

"Time the picture of God that has public Christian theology is that of the Unharmed Delivery service, it seems that the interpersonal God of disclosed in the scripture is the Enter Stirred Delivery service - that individual who snooty all additionally seeks to talk into us to put pen to paper elegance a amiable attachment of the type that exists with a begin and a son, or a flow associate and a haunting assistant. "

"Relationality is the true basic of God - the deviating of the God of the philosophers... "

"Having the aver of if, to be better thorough, we started from the top large size basic care of Jesus's knowledge - that God is the type of individual whom we power unplanned in downgrade to prayer as our '"abba"', our 'Daddy in Heaven'?"

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Needy from Part One of Blake T Ostler's "EXPLORING MORMON THOUGHT: THE Evils OF THEISM AND THE Regard OF GOD" - Range 2.

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