tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-407538260899948148.post725330419653060860..comments2023-04-12T06:13:37.685-07:00Comments on Imperfect Reflections–1C13:12: Judge Not (because critical thinking is just too dang hard!)Mackenziehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00746528061521806095noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-407538260899948148.post-19016980687822794672013-08-11T09:13:34.264-07:002013-08-11T09:13:34.264-07:00"God gives Himself, but He does not give Hims..."God gives Himself, but He does not give Himself away. He does not give up being God in becoming a creature, in becoming man. He does not cease to be God. He does not come into conflict with Himself...<br /><br />He reconciles the world with Himself as He is in Christ. He is not untrue to Himself, but true to himself in this condescension, in this way into the far country. If it were otherwise, if in it He set himself in contradiction with Himself, how could He reconcile the world with Himself? Of what value would His deity be to us if--instead of crossing in that deity the very real gulf between Himself and us--He left that deity behind Him in His coming to us?...<br /><br />What would be the value to us of His way into the Far Country if in the course of it He lost Himself?"<br /><br />Karl BarthMackenziehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00746528061521806095noreply@blogger.com