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UPDATE: “Groaning of Creation” – Chapter 4: Part III
Does God need to experience pain and suffering like we do necessary for Objective atonement?
We complete chapter 4 of Christopher Southgate’s The Groaning of Creation.
Here are our essays.
Chapter 4: “An Adventure in the Theology of Creation” – Part II
Deep intratrinitarian kenosis
We will finish the rest of Chapter 4 of Southgate’s The Groaning of Creation.
Please answer one of the questions below:
Chapter 4.4 – “Developing a Theology of Evolutionary Creation”
This week we will go over Section 4.4 of The Groaning of Creation.
This week, the questions have been asked by Christopher from our group.
Please write an essay on one of the questions below:
The Hidden Agenda Behind the NIV Bible
NIV- An unreliable translation of the Bible?
I was exposed to how prone to error the NIV translation of the Bible was in the past, but not to this extent!
(I myself prefer the NASB, NRSV, or the ESV versions of the Bible. The only times I read or encounter the NIV these days are Sundays at church.)
The NIV is arguably the most popular translation of the Bible in America, or at least one of the most popular throughout the world. Therefore, could millions of Christians over the years been misled in our understanding of the Bible by the NIV translators?
Lots of times, we want the Bible (or even God for that matter) to fit into our own image and conform to our view of the world or reality, and not the other way around. It seems as if those who came up with the NIV seem to have placed the conservative evangelical doctrine of the infallibility and inerrancy of Scripture front and foremost, and let that be the driving motivation behind the translation, which then leads to gross misinterpretations and even erroneous belief systems.
Does God Change in Response to Suffering? Motlmann, von Speyr, the Cross, and the Suffering of God, the Trinity
Matthias Grünewald, Isenheim Altarpiece, chapel of the Hospital of Saint Anthony, Isenheim, Germany, c. 1510-15, oil on wood
Undoubtedly, suffering and death changes us in some degree or another. It’s a given in life. A death of a close friend, parent, or loved one can profoundly affect the outlook of one’s life.
I can only imagine the unimaginable pain a parent has to go through if their child dies. It would undoubtedly change the parent’s life.
Is it the same for God then? Did God change when he experienced Jesus’ death? Does God himself change in response to suffering, pain, and death?
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