God our Saviorwants all men to be saved and to come to the knowleedge of the truth. The Lord is not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentence. When we die we are. Born again, As Jesus said I am the resurrection and the life he that believes in me though HE WERE DEAD yet shall he live. All creation mourns the pains of childbirth.
"Now what I think the Mystery of Christ really means is that when God becomes incarnate in Jesus, he isn't just doing a job on one person who happened to live in Palestine two thousand years ago. Rather, he's manifesting in Jesus – making sacramentally present in Jesus – what he's been doing all along in all persons and, for that matter, in all things. But it's also more than that. The Incarnation isn't just God coming into the world of time and place; it's also God taking all times and places into himself so that they'll all be present to him in his peacemaking, forgiving, reconciling power. Nobody is left out, you see."
(Capon from The Mystery of Christ… & Why We Don't Get It)
"For the incarnation of the Word of God - that is, of God himself in human flesh - is the root of the church's catholicity. And that incarnation is not simply the poking of the Second Person of the Holy and Undivided Trinity into a single human being named Jesus but that Person's abiding and irremovable prescience in all people, at all times, and in all places - whether they know it or not , believe it or not, or like it or not,"
Robert Capon - The Astonished Heart
"[…] we're saved because everybody has not only been given a free ticket by the presence of the Incarnate Word to everybody by the Mystery of Christ but has also, by that same Mystery, actually been put into the stadium and been given free beer, banners, and hot dogs."
(Capon, The Mystery of Christ… & Why We Don't Get It)
God our Saviorwants all men to be saved and to come to the knowleedge of the truth. The Lord is not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentence. When we die we are. Born again, As Jesus said I am the resurrection and the life he that believes in me though HE WERE DEAD yet shall he live. All creation mourns the pains of childbirth.
"Now what I think the Mystery of Christ really means is that when God becomes incarnate in Jesus, he isn't just doing a job on one person who happened to live in Palestine two thousand years ago. Rather, he's manifesting in Jesus – making sacramentally present in Jesus – what he's been doing all along in all persons and, for that matter, in all things. But it's also more than that. The Incarnation isn't just God coming into the world of time and place; it's also God taking all times and places into himself so that they'll all be present to him in his peacemaking, forgiving, reconciling power. Nobody is left out, you see."
(Capon from The Mystery of Christ… & Why We Don't Get It)
"For the incarnation of the Word of God - that is, of God himself in human flesh - is the root of the church's catholicity. And that incarnation is not simply the poking of the Second Person of the Holy and Undivided Trinity into a single human being named Jesus but that Person's abiding and irremovable prescience in all people, at all times, and in all places - whether they know it or not , believe it or not, or like it or not,"
Robert Capon - The Astonished Heart
"[…] we're saved because everybody has not only been given a free ticket by the presence of the Incarnate Word to everybody by the Mystery of Christ but has also, by that same Mystery, actually been put into the stadium and been given free beer, banners, and hot dogs."
(Capon, The Mystery of Christ… & Why We Don't Get It)