[TruthTalk] Torrance

[Judy Taylor]

From: "David Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To whet your appetite for more, I share the following from Torrance's book, "The Mediation of Christ":   "All through the incarnate life and activity of the Lord Jesus we are shown that 'all of grace' does not mean 'nothing of man', but precisely the opposite: all of grace means all of man, for the fullness of grace creatively includes the fullness and completeness of our human response in the equation.  But this is not something that can be understood logically, for logically 'all of grace' would mean 'nothing of man', which may tempt people to apportion the role of Christ and of the believer by arguing for 'something of grace' and 'something of man', something done for me by Christ and something I do for myself!  All of grace means all of man!" ... "How could the unconditional grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, crucified and risen again for us, how could 'all of Christ', ever mean a depreciating of the very humanity he came to save?!"   jt: David what does Torrance mean when he refers to "humanity?" and what does he mean when he says "all of man?" I hope he is aware that the sentence has been carried out on unregenerate man and the ones Christ is saving are part of a new creation in Him.  I'm wondering if Torrance has the same gospel or if he is trying to regenerate what God has condemned.   judyt