March 9, 2015

It is a dangerous thing to believe that we can measure eternal truths with only our limited intellects. I believe it would be like trying to grasp a person's IQ or their mental health with a scale, tape measure and measuring cup. The Bible does not teach "body and soul". The Word of God proclaims that we are spirit, soul and body. That is the reality of God's handiwork in creating human beings. Have you noticed that Jesus uses parables to describe the Kingdom of God? ("The Kingdom of God is like....") That's because it is so deep and so varied in all its facets that simple propositional truths come up short. Entry into that Kingdom requires a new birth. You are expected to grow into a Bride who embraces her Lord and Savior as she would her husband. She enters that relationship which is a new covenant--one of grace and mercy and loving obedience (think: marriage covenant). Jesus even said that the first and greatest commandment was to love the Lord, our God.