Massacre of the Innocents: Patripasssianism, Bushmasters and Judgment on America
The Massacre of the Innocents: Patripasssianism, Bushmasters and Judgment on America
Former staunch NRA advocates in Congress now call for stricter gun control laws
COMMENTARY
By David W. Virtue DD
www.virtueonline.org
December 18, 2012
Patripassianism. Or does God suffer? The Early Church fathers said He doesn't but they were persuaded more by Greek metaphysics especially Neo-Platonic and Stoic conceptions of God than anything else. An old Irish theology professor of mine who once taught Theories and Ideas of Revelation (in London) said the British of course think God has a stiff upper lip and feels nothing, I'm Irish and I know God suffers.
For Christians of all stripes, this week's massacre of 20 innocent children and six teachers in Connecticut points us inexorably to the One who suffered on a cross 2,000 years ago, a pain that none of us can even begin to imagine despite Mel Gibson's best efforts to show us. For these parents and their families it is some consolation as they gather around gravesites to lay their beloved ones to rest in the ground and that there is a God who suffers with them.
A tragedy like this, of course, offers no simplistic answers. The mad deranged mind of a psychotically disturbed young man, an absent father, easy access to guns, the sinister know-it-all smiles of gun salesmen and lobbyists, briefly held back till they and their field commanders in the NRA once again pounce on weak politicians who dare to raise a voice against the gadarene rush to put a gun (if not a chicken) in every home in America.
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
Former staunch NRA advocates in Congress now call for stricter gun control laws
COMMENTARY
By David W. Virtue DD
www.virtueonline.org
December 18, 2012
Patripassianism. Or does God suffer? The Early Church fathers said He doesn't but they were persuaded more by Greek metaphysics especially Neo-Platonic and Stoic conceptions of God than anything else. An old Irish theology professor of mine who once taught Theories and Ideas of Revelation (in London) said the British of course think God has a stiff upper lip and feels nothing, I'm Irish and I know God suffers.For Christians of all stripes, this week's massacre of 20 innocent children and six teachers in Connecticut points us inexorably to the One who suffered on a cross 2,000 years ago, a pain that none of us can even begin to imagine despite Mel Gibson's best efforts to show us. For these parents and their families it is some consolation as they gather around gravesites to lay their beloved ones to rest in the ground and that there is a God who suffers with them.
A tragedy like this, of course, offers no simplistic answers. The mad deranged mind of a psychotically disturbed young man, an absent father, easy access to guns, the sinister know-it-all smiles of gun salesmen and lobbyists, briefly held back till they and their field commanders in the NRA once again pounce on weak politicians who dare to raise a voice against the gadarene rush to put a gun (if not a chicken) in every home in America.
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
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