RE: [TruthTalk] What is Unity?

[Slade Henson]

Rabbi Akiva said it best when asked by a Greek about the dichotomy between Predestination and Free Will. R. Akiva said, "All is foreknown but freewill is given." That's the best answer I've heard yet.   -- slade -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]On Behalf Of Gregory A. Hession J.D. Sent: Saturday, 15 January, 2005 18.51 To: TruthTalk@mail.innglory.org Subject: Re: [TruthTalk] What is Unity?     Actually, I often have a cat in my lap.  But, seriously, I am neither a supra or an infra.  I'm just ignunt.  I think the lapsarian controversy is just another one of those attempts to apply Western logic and Platonism to a spiritual mystery.  We want to reduce everything to an explainable mechanical construct, much like an engineer would.  Scripture is often mysterious.  Who can REALLY understand the order and convergence of God's sovereignty and eternal decrees, as opposed to man's free will, in salvation?  Not this boy!!   Gregory A. Hession J.D. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Springfield, Mass. ----- Original Message ----- From: Slade Henson To: TruthTalk@mail.innglory.org Sent: Saturday, January 15, 2005 6:05 PM Subject: RE: [TruthTalk] What is Unity? Greg....   Now you've got my curiosity up. Are you an Infralapsarian or an Supralapsarian?   -- slade -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]On Behalf Of Gregory A. Hession J.D. Sent: Saturday, 15 January, 2005 17.58 To: TruthTalk@mail.innglory.org Subject: Re: [TruthTalk] What is Unity?       May I suggest that we don't have to say the same thing in all details to have unity.   We are united in the fundamentals.  What we often disagree about is doctrine, rather than the weightier matters of the law and life.  We don't need to have conflict over them.  The great theologians of yore were great because they first and foremost knew their God and loved their brothers, not because they knew all about infralapsarianism or something equally obscure.   Gregory A. Hession J.D. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Springfield, Mass.