tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20184070.post116009924497394611..comments2024-01-11T10:58:30.769-05:00Comments on Jesus community: embracing grace 5: the epic of the EikonTed M. Gossardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10580691315315271791noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20184070.post-1160468041414168092006-10-10T04:14:00.000-04:002006-10-10T04:14:00.000-04:00L.L.,Interesting observation. I think Revelation i...L.L.,<BR/><BR/>Interesting observation. I think Revelation is an engigma to many. Or it comes across in terms that speak of some future "left behind" scenario, that hardly evokes anything but a kind of passivity in waiting and trying to connect present day events to last day prophecy.<BR/><BR/>So much better to see it, and read it as you're suggesting here. And while I have a renewed appreciation of Revelation, I have plenty of room to grow in what you're speaking of here. Thanks.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20184070.post-1160399422993315692006-10-09T09:10:00.000-04:002006-10-09T09:10:00.000-04:00I find it interesting that Revelation often makes ...I find it interesting that Revelation often makes people respond with passivity... the "it's all gonna burn anyway syndrome"... yet, for me, it has the opposite effect... there is so much caution there, heavy responsibility, even while there is the eventual hope of renewal.L.L. Barkathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13333960142447144678noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20184070.post-1160306753470231662006-10-08T07:25:00.000-04:002006-10-08T07:25:00.000-04:00I just added the questions to this post. I'm afrai...I just added the questions to this post. I'm afraid I didn't do justice to this chapter of the book. And while I don't want to deviate from it, I do share in the sense of an impressionistic portrayal of the chapter. So that some of Scot's thoughts might be altered by my own here. Though, again, that's not my goal. <BR/><BR/>I really did have a harder time with this chapter. Maybe because, although I agree with the theology of us being in the Now an eschatological people, already beginning to live in the New Day which has its climax in Christ's return- it evidently is not "second nature" to me, very much, yet. Revelation and thinking on the End has taken a beating in popular theology and books, and too often we have been in danger of throwing out the baby with the bathwater, in reaction to that, I'm afraid.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com