In
several respects Karl Barth reformed the theology of the reformed
church. Issues that persist todays for Christians on the topic of
predestination of the elect remain conversational objects especially
in the dialogue between believers and the faithless. Usually people
draw upon Augustine and Calvin for theological insights into
scripture. Karl Barth wrote a new and even upgraded interpretation of
the subject of election however, that seems eminently logical and with some support in scripture.
In
short-all humans comprise the elect when they are saved. The reason
for that is that just one man-Jesus Christ who is God, actually is
the elect. God approved/elected Himself. Fairly though, God also
rejected Himself in the crucifixion of the Son. Jesus Christ as man
bore the physical body housing original sin in the fallen, temporal
Universe. Since he was God though he was without spiritual sin and
able to overcome the original sin's withering effects on morality.
Christians become the elect through faith in the Son. An Introduction
to Barth's Theology by Geoffrey Bromley is a succinct accounting of
Barth's innovative and realistic insight
I
would add the observation that spiritual coherence in the will of God
once broken-as Adam and Eve perpetrated in the Garden-cannot easily
be fixed. God as God is recognizable only to himself yet as the man
Jesus Christ became subject-for-others. Even so God and the Holy
Spirit are One with the Lord. Human free will arose with disobedience
to God somewhat like symmetry breaking of a perfect unified field
without imbalance in an original singularity created rapid expansion
and hyperinflation hypothetically of a basic Universe within one
physical cosmology theoretical paradigm. Faith in the Lord Jesus
Christ as God can restore the lost, free willed sinners of the realm
of broken forms, temporal entropy and original sin to perfection in
the will of God.
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