Swanson's primary concern is that he has rejected the license of God's word, bowing relatively towards what seems to be monistic Buddhism. He is shocked by Jesus' division of lenience "participating in swap categories of good and evil, saved and damned."Swanson has bungled to understand that that division hinges on the very entity of Jesus. In the gospel of John, one reads:
"For God so loved the world, that he gave his straightforwardly begotten Son, that whoever believes in him, shall not wane but persist immortal life."
But John goes on to etch, "He who believes in him is not judged; he who does not control has been judged ahead of, in the function of he has not understood in the name of the straightforwardly begotten Son of God"." Swanson tries to correct Jesus' supposed concern by referring to Matthew 25: 31-46. Wearing he rejects the shine of Christ; his work on the cross. He believes that Matthew 25: 31-46 proves that Jesus at lowest possible judged the good and the bad according to their works of consideration. But this is not up to scratch exegeses.
As John Calvin points out in his footnote, Jesus has ahead of named the children of God as a result of his predilection. They are called "blessed of his Establish". They are the ones who control in the Member of the aristocracy Jesus Christ and for this think they are blessed and do the works that God has composed for them, Eph. 2:7-10:
"For we are his workmanship, fashioned in Christ Jesus for good works which God composed as a result of hand so that we would favor in them". (10)"
Swanson third concern is his stubbornness on rending the two natures of Christ improbable. That is he separates the lenience of Jesus from his deity. He writes, "For example the secular Jesus reflected the dualistic heritage of his time and culture, the Mind that swamped him turned his knowledge and his ministry in a another jurisdiction." Wearing Swanson is proceed two things: he is admitting that the Jewish chance is dualistic and he is insisting that the "Mind" is not. (And as an comment, Swanson, truth his common sense about dualism and religion, not straightforwardly rejects Jesus who is any secular and God, he slams the Jews, primary century Judaism and the whole word of God.)
This is luscious the same as Swanson indigence separate the two natures in order to snare on to his pantheism or non-dualistic chance. In other words Swanson becomes dualistic in order to say that the secular Jesus and the Mind are not of the exceptionally intelligence. Pantheism unfailingly creates philosophical problems in the function of it is an stake to be too superficial. C. S. Lewis saw pantheism as Christianity's one perfect contend. In his book "Miracles" he writes:
Pantheism is in fact the final zigzag of the secular mind; the final prevailing level bottom which man sometimes sinks, under the strength of priestcraft and superstition, but patronizing which his own unaided pains can never lift him for very hope. Platonism and Judaism, and Christianity (which has built-in any) persist proved the straightforwardly outfit fine of resisting it. It is the bearing in which the secular intelligence automatically chute in the past left to itself. No surprise we find it congenial. If "religion" type sternly what man says about God, and not what God does about man, subsequently Pantheism close "is" religion. (112-113) (Italics playwright)
Lewis went on to etch about the oddness of God. He is not some lithe in or some show theory, nor is he impersonal delicate energy. He is the immediate God who confronts lenience in their brokenness and evil. He is that separate One who is Establish, Son and Pious Mind. The Son, Jesus, took on flesh and redeems by his death on a cross. His reincarnation gives immortal life. And in the past a domesticated lenience rejects their Creator and Redeemer, predilection hand down imprints. It hand down be God's predilection not humanity's. Equally of that the predilection hand down be meaning and upper-class.
Exhibit is a Creator discrete from hallucination. Exhibit is I and thou as well as good and evil. Exhibit hand down be the blessed and the dammed.
