aaron lieberman's List: My Walk in Christ

• . It began as an event that left all problems of disbelief because it was direct and personal experience.

  • when a personal encounter with Christ happens in life, unbelief vanishes
• Sonship is a gift that cannot be lost, although it can be profaned
• All the gods of the Ancient World were great: they were the sum total of all that was valued and admired — justice, wisdom, goodness, power. Only God revealed in Christ defeats human imagination, could not be invented by man: a God made in the image of the servant, vulnerable, despised, humiliated, rejected, contemptible, defeated, killed, ruled out, unredeemed in the eyes of men. A God no one would wish to invent or to have — a God one can discover when he reveals himself. A God one accepts with awe and with fear-because he calls us to be like him, upturning all values and giving new meaning to all things.
• He had created the world in an act of love, and he had never become alien and indifferent to this world he had thus created.
• When we think that whatever and whoever he called into existence is called to be a companion of God for all eternity, we can see the depth of the divine love and the extent of the divine risk.
• Because we are free to accept the love of God and to reject it we can frustrate this love or fulfil this love. But God’s love remains immutable and he remains faithful for ever. He creates each of us in hope and in faith, and at moments when our faith vacillates and our hope sways and wavers we can rest in the divine faith and in the divine hope. When we think that the cost of our faithlessness and our waverings is paid by God in the life and death of the Incarnate Word then we can rest assured in his love.

  • rest assured..beautiful
• Freedom is an absolute condition of love, because love is the gift of one’s self in perfect freedom
• Not only did God remain concerned with us throughout history, but he became one of us through history, and this not for a moment, but foreve

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