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How much does God care?

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Gerard O'Collins points out that Arian and modern neo-Arian Christologies have significant implications for our understanding of the extent of God's favor toward us. According to traditional Christologies, "God so valued us and our historical, space-time world that the Son of God entered it in person. By assuming a human existence, the second person of the Trinity showed what we mean and meant to God." On the other hand, Arian Christologies give us "a Jesus who is not truly divine, means that God was really unwilling to become human and did not after al set such a value on us. Some else (who was not divine) was sent to do the job of mediating to us final revelation and salvation."

posted by Peter J. Leithart on Thursday, November 24, 2005 at 01:14 PM

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