Yes, people do use being human as an excuse.
Humanity has been broken for so long, and the story of what we were made
to be (and what we will be in Christ) has become so obscured, that they
think of fallen humanity as the only humanity. To be
truly human is to show with all our being what God is
like,
How does "being human" in and
of itself effect this since God Himself is not human? God is a
Spirit (John 4:24)
to be God's regent-servants in the world
he has made, to live in intimate relationship with God
as we were created to do.
There is just one way back
to "intimate relationship with God" - Things can never revert
back to what they were before the fall. Jesus did not come to recondition
the old. He came to introduce the new. In the garden Adam and Eve
were not indwelt by the Holy Spirit.
When God made us, he said "very good".
When he completed his work in
Genesis he said "very good" - are you forgetting how many generations ago
that was? Today we are born into a fallen creation as fallen creatures
......
Jesus is truly
human, and through his life, death, resurrection, and
ascension, we are being restored.
Jesus is not the same as the
rest of humanity - He came from heaven. John the Baptist points this
out early on (John 3:31) "He that cometh from above is above all; he that
is of the earth is earthly and speaketh of the earth; he that cometh from
heaven is above all and what he hath seen and heard, that he testifieth".
Paul expounds on this further in 1 Cor 15:42-50.
If humanity is just going to be extinguished,
there is no such thing as salvation. Think of it: you are animated by the
Holy Spirit already
now.
Salvation is not about saving
some old wretched fallen nature Debbie; we are actually "saved from
the wrath of God" by being conformed to the image of Christ and the Holy
Spirit indwells us to help bring this about. The body is changed at the
last trump and even that will not be the same, it is a "transformed
body"
We will have bodies, Judy, although they will
be different. We will not be ghosts or angels.
Did I ever say we would be
ghosts or angels? Why does it have to be from one extreme to the
other?
We will still be human. What could we be
other than human, and be ourselves?
As we have borne the image of
the earthly we will bear the image of the heavenly - but it doesn't happen
by osmosis and there are lots of "ifs, ands, and buts" IOW it didn't all
happen at the incarnation and it necessitates our
cooperation.
There is going to be a new earth, too. You
might want to reference a previous thread in which David and I talked
about the body, salvation, and resurrection.
Joy - Debbie
Debbie writes:
1. We are not saved to be something other
than human. To be truly human does not mean
to be sinful and broken.
What do you mean by "truly
human" Debbie? It's been my experience that ppl usually bring out
"after all they are human" as an excuse
for continuing in sin when
they are threatened by someone they think may be setting the standard
too high.
You can't be talking about
the human body because we all know that "flesh and blood" cannot inherit
God's Kingdom (1 Cor 15:50)
So what are you saying
here... What is your spin?
judyt
