Re: [asa] Supra-Natural and the Balance of the Trinity [was addendum to Greetings from a new member]

What about a 'supra-natural' component instead? Lately I've been reading about the concept of 'supra-organic,' which had/has nothing to do with natural vs. non-natural discussion (nor MN vs. PN), but rather about overcoming organicism. Human beings are said to have a 'supra-organic' component/aspect.
   
  Secondly, how does the understanding or salvation of pre-Christian persons fit in with 'theology of the cross?' Does there not come a time and place when/where theology of the cross somehow imbalances the Trinity? After all, the Bible, kenosis aside as a specialized theological concept/percept, does not actually "start from the cross," but with Genesis 1.
   
  When it is written, "the comprehensibility of the world 'though God were not given' is a natural consequence," I simply view it as an 'interpreted (i.e. personal) consequence' and nothing more. What has it got to do with being 'natural?'
   
  G. Arago

  
George Murphy <gmurphy@raex.com> wrote:
  I sent that last post too quickly. The claim that the universe can be
understood without reference to God is not simply a "convenient" way of harmonizing religious belief with scientific reality. To see it that way is the result of starting with a merely "theistic" theology. If one starts
from the cross, with its claim that God's supreme act takes place in
concealment, and that God typical MO is kenotic, then the comprehensibility of the world "though God were not given" is a natural consequence. & the smirk of atheists at that is simply an expression of the foolishness that "Greeks" see in the cross.

Shalom
George
http://web.raex.com/~gmurphy/

"...we shouldn't be surprised if, among other things, human beings don't contain any special "supernatural" component." - George

       
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Received on Tue Apr 10 17:41:57 2007