Category: Assorted Topics on Everything

Yesterday I had a relative over for Sunday lunch. He professed to be very intelligent and keeps himself well informed by watching lots of SBS and ABC programs. There was a program my wife and I watched called, 'Go back to where you came from,' where prominent people in Australia were asked to walk in the footsteps of refugees. They met with refugees in Australia who had arrived by boat, obtained their residency and were now a part of society. They heard their stories about why they came to Australia and what it was they escaped from. They were then taken back to the places they escaped from and began their journey back to Australia as 'refugees.' It is a very compelling program and I recommend anyone watch it. As…

The atonement entails the whole History of God's redemptive acts in Israel where He makes Personal Promises to them, I will be your God and you shall be my people, which are brought to reality in the Incarnate life of Jesus Christ from birth throughout His life and reaching its culmination in His death, resurrection and ascension to the Father. Israel is described as the womb of the Incarnation. It is also the womb of the atonement this apocalypse or unveiling is in the whole life of the Person and work of Jesus Christ. It is God who acts and takes the initiative towards humanity every step of the way throughout history to bring about a union and communion of humanity with God in Jesus Christ. The particular part of…