Freedom and restriction, can you tell the difference?

Have you ever wondered if criminals really commit crimes or simply suffer from dissociative ethics?  I mean what do laws really serve other than holding at bay the hungry jaws of anarchistic dissolution and despotic oppression?  Don’t you think that it would be so much easier if we dispensed with all the restricting regimes of order and justice and simply relied on the goodness of man to promote peace and harmony among mankind?

Christianity at large

Church Youth Group Prepares to ‘Sacrifice’ for Mission Trip

This is absolutely hilarious, yet reminds me eerily of my time in calvary chapel.

God? Justice?

A God of love divorced from justice and wrath towards transgression is lunacy. It does not provide for the protection of his people, nor the absolution of the their transgressions of his law. But as well, he would cease to be a God worthy of worship, for he himself would, though possessed of a love of his own glory, not be able to demand his glory. For in truth, a God of love divorced from justice would love sin, having no other course of action by which to respond, and in doing so cease to be a moral creator.

Thus love without law is hedonism reigning as the only ethic and God would die and man would reap the consequence. The rise of the supra-man, the embarkation of the ship of power out into the sea of nihilism. But this is the sociological dimension, the noetic influence of the fall onto the minds of man. Because God never nor can he die, but the image of God seen in creation is obscured to the point of perversion and denotative realignment.

And so we perceive the depth and true motivation of liberal theology; the obscuring and eventual disembodiment of the revealed nature of God, as well as the divine nature of Jesus. Furthermore, if those who see Christ see the Father, and the Son is the only way to the Father, but yet the Son possesses no divine nature, then the kingdom of God and the entrance into it are merely moral. Thus making Jesus the definitive moralist. And in doing so they reduce the kingdom from adoptive/eschatological to nihilistic , wherein the construct of law/gospel is replaced by personal liberty/hedonism, with the only deterrent being the termination of personal intention by an ego greater than oneself.

In short, love without law is the reduction and self-conscious dismantling of Christianity and must be viewed as such.

The knowledge of God

God, however, has not only told his name, but in various instances has actually appeared to chosen people or groups. The presence of God in these theophanies is no exhibition of his essence, it is rather a further illustration that his essence is not only unknowable but also deadly to man and his “voice” as well except when graciously veiled under appearances accommodated to human abilities.

Edward A. Dowey, Jr.

Thoughts on coming and going

Situationalism, or the proposition that subjectivity is the only constant itself is, albeit subconsciously and without intent, predicated  on the inherent understanding of concrete or objective reality.  The very concept and or endeavor  of the metaphysical interpretation of life involves the application of principles which require a referent of concrete veracity.  Meaning may not be apprehended in the flux but in the telos, in the “How shall we then live” of the law and gospel. the ethics of word and sacrament.