Imperative and indicative
Between Two Worlds has published an excellent post on slaying the dragon of flesh. Here's the opening:
Yesterday I posted a quote . . . on the important NT theme of "become who you are."The rest of the article is even better.
This is getting at the crucial truth of NT ethics that the imperative (what you should do) is built upon the indicative (what God has done). It's a foreign way of thinking for many of us, and we have to adjust our mental compass in order to walk this way.
We see this all throughout the NT.
posted by Milton Stanley at 9:37 AM
2 Comments:
Ben Witherington and Richard Oster flesh that out pretty well in their Corinthians commentaries and both use that exact phrase of becoming who you already are.
Thanks for the info, Matt. Sounds like I need to add Rick's commentary to my to-buy list. Peace.
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