5/21/2023 0 Comments Actio sequitur esse![]() Thus, it is entirely possible for a person to be physically alive (bios) while spiritually dead (thanatos). Likewise, there are two types of death: teleute, physical death and thanatos, spiritual death. ![]() Scripture identifies two types of life: bios, physical, created, mortal life and zoe, the spiritual, uncreated, eternal life. Paul is here using a very specific word to identify the secret of our life which is “hidden with Christ in God” (Col 3:3): zoe, the eternal, uncreated life that originates in God alone. For the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and death” (Rom 8:1-2, emphasis added). St Paul writes, “There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. The salvation that is in Jesus Christ is a new order of life. Most striking of all, both fail to address the means for transforming the human personality into Christlikeness, and neither gives sufficient attention to the radical fellowship-forming power that comes from rightly understanding and proclaiming the everlasting gospel of Jesus Christ. The failure on the left is its inability to have any redemptive word for life beyond the grave. The failure on the right is a blindness to the fact that salvation is for here and now as well as for there and then. These fragmentary half-gospels miss the heart of the salvation that is in Jesus Christ, which is a radically new life-a daily life we receive from God. ![]() The second is a theology from the left, which understands salvation primarily in terms of social and economic liberation on earth. The first is a theology from the right, which thinks of salvation primarily in terms of heaven after we die. This understanding of salvation stands in stark contrast to the two views of salvation that reign supreme today. The circumference of their message embraces 360 degrees. They spoke of a life in the kingdom of God encompassing all of human existence, both here and hereafter. Jesus and the early Apostles preached a salvation radically different from the kind of salvation being preached today.
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