He is Lord Over Everything!

This is a follow up to an earlier posting...

I’ve been thinking about this statement, Doug Wilson makes on his column that I posted on my blog last night, and it just kills me the more I think about it....

This is what Jesus is assuming in His reply to the Pharisees. When He says, "at the beginning" it was this way, He is not expecting His questioners to say something like, "But that was then, this is now." When He says, "from the beginning," He is talking about something that was established in the first chapter, and was intended to remain that way until the last chapter. That something was the reality of a man leaving his father and mother, taking a wife, and becoming one with her. This practice was to pervade all history— indeed, without it, there would be no history...

I keep trying to picture someone telling Jesus to his face, he who was the Word made flesh, "but that's Old Testament"..... I don’t know why it seems funny to me. But it cracks me up. I don’t think anyone would really do it. Conversly, I guess we would be shocked to hear Jesus qouteing the Old Testament at all if he was walking amidst us in the flesh. I think we would just assume that of course he would be talking about New Testament stuff, because the New Testament is what we should be about. Maybe it's just me, but for most of my evangelical life it does seem like it was New Testament top 40, all the hits, all the time. Now this was because Jesus' life and death and resurection changed so much, but it didn’t change everything. In many ways it allowed everything to takes its proper place back in creation.

So with Jesus we can get the proper revelation and understanding concerning the Old Testament. But I don’t think that it is guaranteed that we will get it right. But I believe on the whole most modern Christians just take it as a given, that we do understand as we should. "We are saved, you know."

If you misunderstand the purpose for the OT, and then apply Jesus to it, you can still miss what Jesus /God wants understood. Our presuppositions could get in the way.

So as I was thinking about all that and this morning as I was listening to Ken Myers talking with Nigel Cameron about bio ethics. IE, biblically how should our faith affect how we view what is happening in the science labs these days.

He is pointing out that killing someone made in the image of God is one thing but to then think that we will just start designing people after our own image is worse. We would try to take the place of the Creator.


Now Nigel was pointing out that it is pietism in the church that has caused the church to over exaggerate some aspects of theology of redemption to where we can drop the ball or even miss other things we should be thinking about.


He quoted someone who said, "That evangelicals tend to behave as if God used to be in the creation business, but retired to go into full time Christian service"

That if we think that Jesus has superceded everything else, then everything else becomes moot.

Now that does describe how my Christian walk used to be! That's how we can miss so much from the OT. That's why Ken Ham has had to criss-cross the country and build a huge museum so that Christians will look at the book of Genesis again to see what is really in there. In effect "Christianity" has become just another subset in the culture, rather than the only frame work through which life can be understood. This is another aspect of that being "so wet" issue. The problem isn’t that the culture sees us this way, it's that we Christians see it this way! I know I am still struggling with this. AAAAHHHHH!

Ken and Nigel discuss a little of how we have painted ourselves into a corner, this was from a bonus, free sample, at Ken's "Mars Hill" website, only about 15 minutes long, but very informative about us. His perspective on how we have incorrectly approached the abortion topic was also eye-opening. I very much like Mr. Camerons "we had better come from the bible" approach.
Mars Hill
It's volume 81 on their free page.