Previous post here: http://youarethechrist.blogspot.com/2010/01/scaffolding-of-city-of-god.html
With Glen's post here: http://christthetruth.wordpress.com/2010/02/08/in-praise-of-going-through-the-motions/
And Irenaeus's theology here: http://christthetruth.wordpress.com/2010/07/07/creation-and-salvation-irenaeus-and-athanasius-7/
Everything about this age is a shadow, the creation, 1st Adam, the law, etc...
it is scaffolding
not that it should be done away with
but it is the precursor of what is to come - the City of God, the 2nd Adam, the gospel, etc..
therefore it is important we have scaffolding, or we cannot build the house
but then the real house is build within the scaffolding, filling it up, bursting through it, destroying the scaffolding, which is burned
Mortal is Swallowed up (from the inside) by immortality...
2 comments:
Intriguing! How do you see "going through the motions" fitting into the scaffolding => house project? Your comment at the time was also tantalizing but I never asked you further...
not so much the 'fake it till you make it' comment - i.e. purposely going along with it even though you know it's fake
but acknowledging that people always start off wrongly...
so we always start as legalists, or liberals, or whatever...
but the gospel will redeem all those things as we draw closer to God..
if we remain away from Him, our 'hollowness' begins to resound the more we do 'religion' - cf Reeves talk 2 on sin - which is also good... in the hope that our hypocrisy reaches a state that even we can't keep it hidden anymore - and we turn
but as we draw near, His Spirit fills us inside out, replacing dust-flesh with Spirit-controlled actions, and finally with Spirit-body
something like that?
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