Re: [TruthTalk] Albert Einstein & Karl Barth

Mon, 28 Feb 2005 20:24:33 -0800

Two really big thumbs up on this one, g. Thanks.
 
Bill
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Subject: Re: [TruthTalk] Albert Einstein & Karl Barth

 
[Kevin's quote:]
<<Karl Barth (himself)* [..asked CFH Henry responding to his question whether the resurrection was newsworthy to the common man] :  * 'Did you say Christianity Today or Christianity yesterday?'  [Barth] then continued by saying that 'the resurrection of Jesus had significance only for His disciples,' implying that it had no significance to the world. >>
 
 
certainly it is true that (the NT) resurrection HAS no significance for the world (now)--why would it while the resurrection of Jesus HAS significance only for His disciples?
 
ftr, i heard CFHH tell K's story, above, in his own words, in person; and, when i heard it i didn't think CFHH could understand what KB had told him..but, that day, listening to CFHH himself, and despite the air of animosity in circulation there, it registered to me that the bible is not God's mind per se , but God's mind in selected (sanctioned) ppl's thoughts..they (therefore we, as their listeners) are indispensible to God's Word..that this is God's will..that it implies that there is something holy in humanity, something of God himself  in us which has perhaps unfathomable implications for the meaning of history..that, e.g., history is governed by God 'in you', God in Christ, not in propositional (nonpersonal) (head trip) truths--not by axioms of the Mind, but by the Spiritual interaction of Persons and personalities, in Christ.. 
 
 
 
"..if you confess with your mouth, 'Jesus is Lord,' and believe in your heart that God
raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is with your heart that you believe
and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you confess and are saved. As the
Scripture says, 'Anyone who trusts in him will never be put to shame.'" (Romans 10, NIV)

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