The Prophetic Presbyterian & His Narrow Way

 

Adam  - (Comprehensive) Shema, Covenant, & Victory Statement  Noah  - Historical Prologue  Abraham  - General Stipulations Moses  - Specific Stipulations  Samuel  - Document Clause  John the Baptist  - Witnesses  “ David ”  - Covenant Renewal  Yeshua  - (Comprehensive) Shema, Covenant, & Victory Statement                     — OR — Edenic  - (Comprehensive) Shema, Covenant, & Victory Statement  Adam / Antediluvian  -  Historical Prologue  Noah/Aegis  - General Stipulations Abraham / Patriarch - Specific Stipulations  Moses/Sinaitic  - Document Clause  Samuel/Monarchial  - Witnesses John the Baptist/Reformational   - Covenant Renewal  David/New Monarchial - Victory Statement  Yeshua/Messianic  - (Comprehensive) Shema, Covenant, & Victory Statement 

Let’s look at the following 2 passages as a pair of prophetic couplets.  Couplet 1 On the following day, when they came from Bethany, he was hungry.  13  And seeing in the distance a fig tree in leaf, he went to see if he could find anything on it. When he came to it, he found nothing but leaves, for it was not the season for figs.  14  And he said to it, “May no one ever eat fruit from you again.” And his disciples heard it. Typically, this text is taught as if it is about a literal fig tree.    It probably isn’t.    Rather, in all likelihood this is semi-poetic language about the temple & its leadership in particular & the fruit of their labor.  On the following day, when they came from Bethany, he was hungry.  13  And seeing in the distance  the holy temple  in leaf (at Passover) he went to see if he could find anything  on & in it. When he came to it, he found nothing but leaves, for it was not th...

Since  Christ’s atoning work/labor  underwrites the whole of the  Covenantal System , & since, as stated in the  Noahic/Aegis Covenant , the Covenant is with all living things, & since the animals represent & constitute a subset of all living things, how is it that Christ’s person & work/ labor applies to animals (since animals are incapable of sinning)?  Adamic/Antediluvian  Animals The Animals are created personal beings who bear God’s image, glory, & authority.  Christ   As to His human nature, Christ is a created personal being. As to both His (Divinity &) Humanity, Christ bears God’s image, glory, & authority.  Noahic/Aegis   Animals The Animals are often ignored. Christ   As to His human nature, Christ labored in relative obscurity.  Abrahamic/Patriarchal  Animals   The Animals are sometimes owned as pets &/or weath. Christ   As to His human nature, Christ was a bond servant ...

  So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.  ( Genesis 1:27 , ESV) From the pen of Doug Wilson : 11. How did God imprint His image on the human race? He did this by creating us male and female. Any attempts to reconfigure this arrangement are therefore explicit assaults on the image of God. How?    God has no sexual characteristics & no sexual attributes. Other than a functionally polytheistic worldview in which idols & the pseudodeities & their minions who underwrite them, the only road to this conclusion runs through the use / utilization of the human image itself as a sufficient epistemic warrant for human sexual ethics — which Romans 1:18 - 32 specifically condemns.  On this view — that if Doug Wilson & his followers, after indicting humanity for suppressing God’s image & authority & substituting any number of created images (including the human image) as a sufficient epi...