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INTRODUCTION TO REVELATIONS : M.M.NINAN Revelation properly so called. In the face of these objections, it is evident that the question of the possibility of Revelation is at present one of the most vital portions of Christian apologetic. http://evolvingthoughts.net/author/jswilkins/ gives the following four possibilities: Deism: God sets the world going and stands back. Traditional creationism: God created things in time. Occasionalism: God creates each finite event at each moment, so that causation is a series of divinely chosen events. Leibnizianism (after Leibniz, who held that God created the best of all possible worlds): God chooses a world to create (from start to finish, hence referred to as a “block” 5
INTRODUCTION TO REVELATIONS : M.M.NINAN universe) in which every event that occurs in that universe is part of a larger providential plan (including chance events). These four possibilities are, I think, exhaustive of the theist options. One of the important error in tha above concept is the unstated assumption that God is totally the other from the creation. The problem here is, where did he create to begin with unless there was an out side of God. In the Jewish theology, God created a space within himself where he created all creation and gave them an independent existence and gave the sentient beings the freedom of will, yet He is immanent in them all. Thus even the creation form part of the body of God. See my study on this subject in “Cosmos: the body of God” Once the existence of a personal God is established, the very fact of immanence gives the possibility of intercommunication and Revelation. Thus God is immanent and also transcendant. The picture fits the relationship between Jesus and the Church as that of a Person. The church is the body of Christ. A body is a living organism. Just like our physical bodies are made up of different parts such as hands, legs, ears and eyes. So is the body of Christ made up of different parts. Each part is essential to the proper functioning and growth of the body. Christ himself is one person in the Trinity – the God head and the Church is a special part of the Body of God in His fullness made for a purpose. 1 Corinthians 12:12-20 For as the body is one and has many members, but all the members of that one body, being many, are one body, so also is Christ. For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body--whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free--and have all been made to drink into one Spirit. For in fact the body is not one member but many. If the foot should say, "Because I am not a hand, I am not of the body," is it therefore not of the body? And 6
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