Paul's Passing Thoughts

According to Protestant orthodoxy, God set the plan of salvation in motion to restore the original covenant He had made with Adam. God also, as the story goes, seeks to restore paradise and the former glory of creation.

Once again, the traditions of men obscure our vision in regard to the glory of God and His astounding love for mankind. We do not love a God that merely restores, we love a God that never ceases to amaze. Protestant orthodoxy is full of boring ideas and an underwhelming view of God’s majesty.

God did not send Christ to merely restore mankind; He came to make mankind God’s very family. Stop settling for mere salvation, you have been remade into the very kin of God—you are His literal family member.

I am not sure when the Bible begins to posit the motif of Father and Son, but it is all part of God’s plan to make man His literal family. You are not merely restored, you are family. Christ, the Son of God is your literal brother, and God is your literal Father.

The plan of God made the new birth of man possible. God injected Himself into the procreation process of fallen man. This goes way beyond renovation—this is complete recreation. The seed of Adam could not make mankind a literal member of God’s family—it would take the seed of God through Christ born of a virgin.

Orthodoxy and its errant eschatology has robbed us of the marvelous truth that God will actually move from heaven to earth in order to dwell with mankind. But it doesn’t stop there, it also robs us of the new birth and the fact that we are God’s true children. It makes our kinship a mere idiom.

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