Monday, November 5, 2012

Grace and Sacraments


1. Ludwig’s problem is that he doesn’t understand why people present grace as being something selective. He always perceived grace to be selfless because it’s a reflection of God’s love which is universal. He felt that is singled the people out who were not able to receive certain pieces of grace, such as not being able to be baptized.

2. The church does not look to exclude those who didn’t receive baptism so they can deny them of God’s universal love.

3. The Church upholds the idea that God’s redemption and salvation is for all, therefore he does not look to exclude anyone.

4. He is able to give his grace through Jesus. The word became flesh when God came down to earth in the form of Jesus. He did this to unite and connect with our spirits.

5. The Christian doctrine that states that God came down as human in the form of Jesus.

6. It states that God is up in space, meaning that he will never immerse himself in our world to unite with us. They believe that this type of spirituality is to disconnect from everyone else who is not at a higher power like God. In order to compensate, they foster the idea of blood sacrifice or baptism to stay in connection with him.

7. The Christian repudiation is that God likes matter. He continued to do this until he became matter when he came down as flesh in the form of Jesus Christ. He did this to completely connect with us spiritually and physically.

8. He did this so he could rise from the dead bodily. It symbolizes that we will rise as human beings and not as scary spirits. Our whole bodies will be ascended to live in love with God.

9. It means that God didn’t just reveal himself through Jesus, but through his love. It was a physical symbol used to represent an emotional sign of his love for us.

10. Chesterton said that sacramentality is the fact that God needed to be with us and connect with us in flesh. He could not just be a spirit in the skies, but a human down on earth with us.

11. Grace is when God comes up close and in touch with us to connect with us. It is when we are face to face and in complete connection with one another.

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