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1 | The Unity of Faith, Hope and Love | 1 Cor 13:13 | Lionstrong | 120286 | ||
Clever! Hello Hank! Perhaps we may have to be content with "things," but perhaps not. Unifying things is what every student of the Bible does. If fact, Paul, under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, unified several important things for the church. The most comprehensive teaching on the Gospel found in one place is the Letter to the Romans. Where would we be without this great word from God through Paul? Later, the saints had to make up a word to unify what the Bible says about the Father, Son and Holy Spirit--Trinity. We "divide" the word of God in order to see its unity, what it says as a whole. |
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2 | The Unity of Faith, Hope and Love | 1 Cor 13:13 | Ray | 120328 | ||
Hi Lionstrong, You have done some deep thinking here and offered a good question. I think that Emmaus has offered a good answer. They, [faith, hope, and love] are theological, godly virtues that teach us about the divine nature. He wrote "They dispose Christians to live in a relationship with the Holy Trinity. They have the One and Triune God for their origin, motive, and object." I like the idea of origin, motive, and object as well as faith, hope, and love as "things" that are progressing; they are getting nearer to the perfection and completion that 1 Corinthians is talking about. I see the origin, the starting point, as being faith in God as seen by Abraham. I see the motive, as being the love of God as seen in His sending of the Son. The completion and the object is our knowledge that God is all in all. 1 Corinthians 15:28. He is among us as God and as Spirit and wants us to love others and worship Him. 1 Corinthians 15:8, "and last of all, as it were to one untimely born, (He) appeared to me also." 1 Corinthians 12:11, "But the same Spirit works all these things, distributing to each one individually just as (He) wills." 1 Corinthians 12:4, "Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same (Spirit)." Parentheses are mine for comparison/contrasts. When God is all in all then all things will be in subjection to Him. From the heart, Ray |
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