Re: [TruthTalk] Smithson: Kruger is the man.. Smithson waxes an elephant

[LaurHamm]

In a message dated 7/1/2004 8:03:42 AM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Kruger assumes the Trinity for a number of reasons (biblical and historical) and presents the idea that central to the reality of the Father, Son and Spirit is the relationship of the three to each other.  We tend to think of fellowship as something that you seek to encounter or restore or to flee from; with God (the Father Son and Holy Spirit) fellowship is something of a life source, it is that which joins the Three.   Kruger describes this fellowship as the womb of human history.  Applied to humans (Let us make man in our image), I am thinking that God gives birth to that which also requires fellowship, and more specifically, fellowship with Him.   And so here we are.   The drag is this, many try to find meaning in their life without God.    In a sense, God is our birthing parent.  We are in His image as a matter of creation. We have no choice. and when we seek other definition, we resist the reality that fully explains who we are.   When we seek other definition, we are a mess.... we kick against the pricks.   When we are involved in passionate fellowship with each other, when our search for God is centered in our outpouring for others (Isa 58:9-11), we find God, we see Him, we realize His presence because He is what we are doing.   We do love -- He is love.  We do fellowship -- his very existence is fellowship (Father Son and Holy Spirit).  In accepting His nature, we move from doing to becoming.  And when we stand in the fulfillment of that "becoming,"  when we are full grown we shine forth His light into this world  --  like Father, like son.    I like the use of the term relationship!   After all, when you think about it,   "we" were created to fellowship with God and each other. Laura