Comments on: 1 + 1 = 1 http://4handsclapping.com/blog/2009/02/1-1-1/ Surprisingly enough, you only need two forehands to generate this sound. Thu, 29 Apr 2010 19:03:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: jeremiah http://4handsclapping.com/blog/2009/02/1-1-1/comment-page-1/#comment-408 jeremiah Tue, 03 Feb 2009 19:58:15 +0000 http://4handsclapping.com/blog/?p=800#comment-408 Interesting but I wonder if it misses that woman was created at all because it was not good for the man to be alone. Why was fellowship with God alone considered by God to be insufficient that He made Eve for Adam? Even if man and woman individually are fully image bearers of God (which they are) is there possibly a mystery that they reflect God's image more fully together than apart just as the Father is wholly God but the Father, Son, and Spirit are all one? God is not modalistic so perhaps it is possible that while God the Father and God the Son are equally and truly God that we do not properly understand God's triune nature without acknowledging Father, Son, and Spirit ... and that in the same way while man and woman both bear the image of God they were made to bear God's image together. Paul did write that though woman was taken from the man all men are born of women. In this case appealing to Christ seems like it might not really work because of hypostatic union. The second Adam didn't need a wife, which suggests that Jesus was fully man in a way that anticipates the age to come when, as He said, no one will be given in marriage but Christ will be the bridegroom to His people, the bride. Interesting but I wonder if it misses that woman was created at all because it was not good for the man to be alone. Why was fellowship with God alone considered by God to be insufficient that He made Eve for Adam? Even if man and woman individually are fully image bearers of God (which they are) is there possibly a mystery that they reflect God’s image more fully together than apart just as the Father is wholly God but the Father, Son, and Spirit are all one? God is not modalistic so perhaps it is possible that while God the Father and God the Son are equally and truly God that we do not properly understand God’s triune nature without acknowledging Father, Son, and Spirit … and that in the same way while man and woman both bear the image of God they were made to bear God’s image together. Paul did write that though woman was taken from the man all men are born of women.

In this case appealing to Christ seems like it might not really work because of hypostatic union. The second Adam didn’t need a wife, which suggests that Jesus was fully man in a way that anticipates the age to come when, as He said, no one will be given in marriage but Christ will be the bridegroom to His people, the bride.

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