I sincerely appreciate your time and comments. Well put and something to think about.
JD
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Sent: Tue, 31 May 2005 07:37:56 -0600
Subject: Re: [TruthTalk] Judy and John on the Law and the Spirit
the issue of 'discipleship' is at the core and crossroads of numerous issues on the TT table; e.g., the observation, below, is accurate in its NT context but 'following' JC today requires redefining discipleship per se...it's not that the NT fails to make this point; Jesus himself realizes that people (will) trust him implicitly whom have never 'met' him..it follows that among modern practioners of religion are those who abuse his term 'disciple', partic through literalizing it; the/ir abuse turns in part on incorporating JC directly into their preexisting value system never having literally 'followed' him anywhere--nor, if confronted with the reality would they prefer to anyway..where the normative preexisting value system is religious legalism, JC, acc to the NT obliterates it, the abuse/s
of the Law, but not the Law as God's word--in JCs view, God designed the Law of Moses for the cultural well being of its historic adherents; however, its role changes as history changes--the point is that history changed through the Incarnation (like 'I and the Father are one') which legalist religionists despise; from Incarnation(al theology) on, legalism's exposed, its inherent weaknesses delineated, its abuses obliterated; basically, JC did this 'work' (of grace) partic for his closest associates--e.g., i know what he has done for me in part because of what he did for (e.g.) the Ap John and the Ap Paul--the three of us are JCs associates, but only one of us was his 'disciple' per se, the Ap John...
On Tue, 31 May 2005 08:47:48 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The return to law is a favorite pastime of so many well meaning disciples..
