OZTheology

  Have you ever walked down a street and seen small black & white posters with a person’s picture on them and a caption, “MISSING!”?  I have in Los Angeles.  They were nailed to wooden telephone posts in a main street in Burbank.  You could find similar posters throughout most cities and even on TV screens.  Pain and loss accompany these posters.  Did you realise that many Christians, and even churches, have a missing person?  There is also pain and loss accompanying this missing person.  You are probably asking the question - Who is this person?  The answer is staggering, because this person is the Holy Spirit.   At this point you may be thinking I’ve lost it, but hold your judgment, at least for a few more minutes.  Non-Charismatic evangelical Christianity has reacted to the extreme emphasis on the Holy Spirit within Charismatic Christianity by steering well clear of that topic with the result that the Holy Spirit has become a...

I had promised to consider divine attributes and the book of Revelation in presenting the deity of Jesus but interrupted that with a necessary interlude.  So, I am now delivering on that promise in today's blog. God possesses attributes, which are uniquely His and cannot be communicated to His creation.  These include His degree of knowledge (omniscience), power (omnipotence), presence (omnipresence) and existence (eternal, without beginning and end).  God is also unchanging (immutable) in contrast to His creation.  These attributes are expressions of God's infinite being; One who is unlimited, in stark contrast to our human existence. At this point, the mystery of Jesus as both God and human is most obvious.  How could Jesus as a genuine human being be God in view of these incredible divine attributes?  I think this is the stumbling block for many.  It also presents a challenge when interpreting statements about Jesus, because as a man, Jesus lived in...