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The Church Is Failing Women - Part 4

Let’s look at Genesis:   Then the Lord God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him.” 19 Now out of the ground the Lord God had formed every beast of the field and every bird of the heavens and brought them to the man to see what he would call them. And whatever the man called every living creature, that was its name. 20 The man gave names to all livestock and to the birds of the heavens and to every beast of the field. But for Adam there was not found a helper fit for him. (Genesis 2:18 - 20, ESV) Why are the animals not fit helpers? In part, because although created first, they are governmentally inferior to him just as Adam is to God.   As to the immanent Trinity, the only fit helpers for God are God’s own hypostases.    Strictly speaking, we are not helpers — we are honored participants in the story of eternity, not authors co-equal to God.    God has no co-equals outside Himself.   Thus, th...
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Truly Autotheos!

  Steve Hays   writes … The doctrine of Eternal Generation leads to eternal subordination.    In formulating the Trinity, two opposing errors are to be avoided: tritheism and unitarianism. Nicene subordinationism is a harmonistic device to avoid tritheism by making the Father the primary God. Standing behind the phrases God “of” God, light “of” light, and true God “of” true God is the imagery of the Father as the fons deitatis or fons trinitatis. And this is a form of modalism. It preserves monotheism by treating the Son as a secondary or second-grade divinity, and the Spirit as a tertiary or third-grade divinity. What you have is a continuity rather than identity of essence. Creedal categories of generation and procession serve the same function. Nicene subordinationism represents a compromise position, swapping one heresy for another. The true doctrine is that the Godhead’s hypostases are each autotheos. To contend that each person is autotheos doesn't mean the per...
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And THE LORD Passed By & Said,”

  6  The  Lord  passed before him and proclaimed, “The  Lord , the  Lord , a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness, 7  keeping steadfast love for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children and the children's children, to the third and the fourth generation.”   8  And Moses quickly bowed his head toward the earth and worshiped.   9  And he said, “If now I have found favor in your sight, O Lord, please let the Lord go in the midst of us, for it is a stiff-necked people, and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for your inheritance.” This Is the Way!  This Is Our Prayer! O LORD, hear our prayers!
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Covenant Theology In Outline Form 37: Marriage & Family Edition

The Bible teaches the 3 uses of the Law & applies to individuals, families, ecclesiastical & civil institutions, governments, & whole societies.  The Bible depicts expresses every covenant from God in the form of a suzerain covenant.  Marriage & Family are institutions circumscribed & governed by way of suzerain covenants, namely the Eternal Covenant of Grace itself & the Marriage Covenant.  Shema   And the rib that the Lord God had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man ( Genesis 2:22 , ESV) Historical Prologue  Then the man said, General Stipulations  “This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh;  Specific Stipulations  she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.” Covenant Renewal  24  Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife,  Document Clause & Witnesses  and they shall become one flesh.  ...
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