David,
I am speaking post DBR; in the book of Acts and
in the Epistles we do not find
the
great emphasis on the "incarnation" that we are
hearing in some circules today.
The apostle Paul preached the cross
and spoke to Festus of righteousness,
temperance, and the judgment to come
(Acts 24:25) until Felix trembled and
put off
dealing with it until later. Why
didn't Paul speak to him of "incarnational
ontology"
so that he would feel better and not be so
upset?
judyt
Judy wrote:
> In the meantime though I would like to ask
why
> you and some of the others on TT put so much
>
emphasis on the "incarnation" when Paul and the
> apostles
preached the "cross"? Does this disparity
> not ever bother
you? Why didn't they go about everwhere
> preaching the
"incarnaton?"
Judy, the cross and the incarnation is related to each other.
The reason
they did not preach the incarnation per se was because
the incarnation of
God was right there among them.
Furthermore, even now, I do not PREACH the
incarnation. I
preach Christ. However, I might TEACH about the incarnation
to
help our understanding of what made Jesus unique.
The apostle John wrote:
John 1:14
(14) And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us,
(and we beheld his
glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the
Father,) full of grace and
truth.
This is the incarnation, Judy. The Word was made flesh.
John also wrote the following:
1 John 4:2
(2) Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit
that confesseth that
Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of
God:
Do you confess that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh? If so,
then you too
believe in the Incarnation.
David Miller.
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