tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31977324.post4408300424790867766..comments2023-06-16T07:12:23.602-04:00Comments on Subversive Reformation Movement: Changeability.:::: Travis Keller ::::http://www.blogger.com/profile/17527935220429210806noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31977324.post-76808099698374520802007-11-21T15:32:00.000-05:002007-11-21T15:32:00.000-05:00Christian authors such as C.S Lewis and A.W. Tozer...Christian authors such as C.S Lewis and A.W. Tozer teach about the immutability of God. (See chapter 9 of The Knowledge Of The Holy). Basically this argument says that "there can be no mutation in the moral character of God...His being is other than and different from all beings." I think that 100 percent of the time humans underestimate who God is. We can't even begin to know Him in whole. We only can see what He is like, through Scripure and experience. This is why Jesus spoke in parables. He understood that we have limited understanding. So instead of being frustrated with our limited brain, He chose to use simile's. (The Kingdom of Heaven is like...); (Your Heavenly Father is like...) etc. I believe that by definition, TO CHANGE means to get better or worse than you already are, or to make a better or worse decision than you already have made. I believe, I can't even pick the right words, that there is nothing that exists that is outside of God's sovereignty. So if this is true, God "getting better" cannot happen otherwise the "better" would be God. If God is the Alpha AND the Omega, then He does not exist wholly on the timeline which also defines change. He is outside of that, yet reaches into it, like a cat who reaches into the fish bowl. I do not believe that the characteristics of God change, they just become personal to each person who invite Him in. God never says "I'm not myself today"Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10014214812121745767noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31977324.post-90465988626933593702007-10-29T10:37:00.000-04:002007-10-29T10:37:00.000-04:00Depends on how broadly you want to define change--...Depends on how broadly you want to define change--against the Protagoran notion of a state of affairs locked in eternal stasis, or against the Heraclitean flux of non-identity. It is the dual starting points that, I believe, causes this to even be a question. One could not understand the Bible without presuming God to be involved in history, which means He exists in time, or at the least, can move in and out of time. In the most literal sense, this is change, and so God has to change to exist and to be relevant. But if one tries to absolutize the finite moments and draw inconceivable gaps between them, then all change is also destruction and creation, and God becomes nothing more than an abstract construct of discrete temporality. This sickens the realist who wants to recognize identity.<BR/><BR/>I believe the proper approach is to recognize the fluidity of existence and be comfortable with the language of change without radically absolutizing differentiation. Differences exist only in identity as much as identity results from differentiation. We can recognize changeability and permanence as two sides of the same coin.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31977324.post-86002837672352761742007-10-23T15:58:00.000-04:002007-10-23T15:58:00.000-04:00He's like the wind, CONSTANTLY MOVING. There's co...He's like the wind, CONSTANTLY MOVING. There's consistancy in his constant movement. If God didn't move or change, why are we supposed to keep seeking and knocking?<BR/><BR/>He's like a rock. He isn't shaken or moved. We are to put our faith in this unchanging power. God's the same today as he was yesterday and will be the same tomorrow. His Character is the same throughout the history of the Bible.<BR/><BR/>The constant longing for relationship with his creation.<BR/><BR/>Both?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31977324.post-3870353914681347942007-10-23T15:41:00.000-04:002007-10-23T15:41:00.000-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com