Excellent explanation. Great admiration for Barth. He will be increasingly influential in the church in the centuries ahead. His grounding is I believe pure Spirit of Truth. Jesus is the WORD.
Father, may we your people open our hearts to hear your word. Speak to us and eliminate every arrogant thought that raises itself up against your sovereignty.
Thank you for this informative and inspiring video. What the Nazi's did with scripture is exactly what American slave-owners did - used scripture to fit their own purposes and methods in order to justify the continuation of the institution of slavery. Christianity and the study of scripture without the Holy Spirit is not only futile but dangerous. Thanks again for this very interesting half-hour.
"God is love." 1. John 4:16 Love is not only what God is like, it is who he is. Since love only exists in communion, in relationship, God has to be trinitarian. God is a relationship of love. The love between Father and Son. And since God is beyond our human intellect and reason, love can be what Christian theology calls the Third Person of the Trinity. The Holy Spirit. In our human experience, perfect love always seems to manifest itself when we give to others as if we gave to ourselves. It is truly unconditional. Giving unconditionally. And here is God becoming man, living the perfect - sinless - life, taking all punishment upon himself and dying the most dreadful death one can possibly imagine sothat we might be saved. What more could one give, how could one give more unconditionally? Love is who he is. In Thomas Aquinas' words, God is 'ipsum esse per se subsistens'. Being itself subsisting. The sheer act of being. Love. That is what we see in the first books of the bible to our salvation in Jesus Christ. From the God who gives bycreating, from the burning bush which was not consumed by its flames to Pentecost. Then, "what looked like flames or tongues of fire appeared and settled on their heads" - the Holy Spirit. God is love. :)
I would say yes. Scripture, understood and interpreted through the Person and redemptive work of Jesus, gives us clear objective truth. “You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; it is these that testify about Me; and you are unwilling to come to Me so that you may have life.” John 5:39-40
