Forging Ploughshares

Justification and faith have been skewed by a gospel that defines these terms as if the law is the baseline and as if retributive justice defines the work of Christ. In this understanding all comprehend who God is and his requirements, yet they simultaneously are depraved. In this false gospel suffering bring righteousness, forgiveness is granted only after wrath is propitiated, and God's anger is pitted against his love. This is not the Gospel.

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Matt, Tom, and Paul continue their discussion of the film, Oppenheimer, and discuss the portrayal of sin and evil acknowledged and unacknowledged by the man and the film.

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On August 6th, 1945 the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, bringing to a conclusion three hundred years of scientific discovery in the holocaust unleashed on Japan and still threatening the world. The individual credited as the father of the atomic bomb, demonstrated the Adam-like struggle tying great good to profound evil, which haunts the human race.

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Matt, Tom and Paul discuss the Christopher Nolan film, Oppenheimer, and the book which serves as the basis of the film, American Prometheus, setting it in the context of the dropping of the Bomb on Hiroshima (August 6th) and Nagasaki (August 9th), and the theological and moral implications.

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Paul Axton preaches - The biblical picture of salvation is the melding or joining of Divine and human Spirit, Life, and Breath. The human image bears this eternal purpose which is only understood through the free joining, willing opening, or purposeful enacting of the grace of God in the person. Augustinian original sin and predestination have obscured this picture of salvation as willing participation of the human person in receiving Divine personhood.

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Tim, Jonathan, Matt, Jim, Brent, Matthew, Austin, and Paul discuss the mystery revealed through the Gospel (in Ephesians) as unfolding of the will of God in creation's completion through redemption. Examples of the mystery compounded are Girardian scapegoating, Lacanian psychoanalysis, and Calvinist predestination, each of which reify a mysterious nothing. 

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Paul Axton preaches - Divine and created Sophia, as brought together in Christ, describes what is happening in the redemption of the cosmos. The created order is brought to its fulfillment in being joined to the Creator. Human wisdom alone though, leaves out the redemptive step. Creation ex nihilo opens creation to the  possibility of being pictured in humans wisdom as grounded in some reified nothing, This produces the antinomies and antagonism from which the Divine-Human One saves.

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Jim, David, Matthew, Brian, and Paul discuss the nature of radical evil as the underside of the law (as exemplified by Paul the Pharisee and as duplicated in all radical evil), and how Christ defeats this evil by exposing its deception. This is necessarily cosmic and universal.

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Paul Axton preaches - The demonization and scapegoating of Jesus are exposed by Jesus' death and resurrection and by his explicit teaching, describing the continuation of demonization in the Christian age as the blasphemy against the Holy Spirit. Where Christians continue to believe the lie of demonization and where they participate in scapegoating there is no forgiveness possible. This is the law of forgiveness, which demands forgiveness of enemies that forgiveness from God would be granted.

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Tom Evans, formerly on the ministerial staff of one of the largest churches in the country, describes to Paul, the emptiness of the mega church experience. Real world healing and salvation are being set aside for a business model which cannot endure the countercultural truth of a peaceable Gospel. 

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