Re: appendix

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From: <drsyme@cablespeed.com>
To: "George Murphy" <gmurphy@raex.com>; <drsyme@cablespeed.com>; "Don
Winterstein" <dfwinterstein@msn.com>; "asa" <asa@calvin.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2005 11:08 AM
Subject: Re: appendix

> It is clear that Christ is the head of all things, as all things were
> created through him. He is in dominion over all things.
>
> And his death reconciles all things to God, that is clear. What is not
> clear is what things need to be reconciled. Verse 18 is a transition from
> Christ being the head of all created things to the head of the Church.
> Certainly people need to be reconciled. Do you really think that the
> rocks and trees, the air, the laws of nature need reconiliation? Do you
> think that v 20 indicates that all men, whether believers or not, are
> renconciled to God through the cross?

I don't want to seem coy, but I really don't know the details. I don't know
what reconciliation will mean for rocks & trees, & I don't know what the
extent of reconciliation among human beings will be. But I do know that in
the Colossians passage "all things, whether in heaven or on earth" means
what it says. So at the very least we should be warned away from a tendency
to try to reduce "all things" to "human things," "spiritual things,"
"Christian things" &c.

Shalom
George
http://web.raex.com/~gmurphy/
Received on Tue Jan 4 12:33:18 2005