Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 450

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426

§ 76.

INSPIRATION IN

[Div. Ill

God were bent make good the loss

expectation of God, and as though, after

tliat,

upon the invention of means by which to He had suffered. He who reasons like this is no theologian i.e. he does not go to work theologically, but starts out from the human representation, viz. that as we are accustomed to manufacture something, and after we see it fail try to repair And so it, so he carries this representation over upon God. you derive the archetype from man and make God's doing and this is not justifiable in any circumstance, since ectypal Our Reformed thereby you deny the creatorship in God. ;

God

theologians, therefore, have always placed the counsel of

and from the same counsel from which the dawn they have explained the issue of crewas to re-creation Even the infra-lapsarian Reformed theologians ation itself. readily acknowledged that the re-creation existed ideally, i.e. already completely in the counsel of God, before the creation in the foreground,

took place. What they called the apj^ointment of a Mediator (constitutio mediatoris) preceded the first actual Hence there is no twofold counsel, so that revelation of sin. on the one hand the decree of creation stands by itself, to which, at a later period, the decree of salvation is mechanicall}' added; but in the deepest root of the consciousness of God both are itself

one.

Interpreted to our

human

consciousness, this

means

to say, that the creation took place in such a way, that in itself it carried

more concretely

the possibility of re-creation still,

man

is

not

first

;

or, to state it

created as a unity that

cannot be broken, then by sin and death disjointed into parts of soul and corpse, and now, by an act of power mechanically applied from without, restored to unity but in the creation of man itself lay both the possibility of this break and the ;

Without sin, soul and body would never have been disjoined by death yet in the creation of man in two parts (dichotomy) lay the But, in like manner, if our body possibility of this breach. had merely a mechanical use in actuality, and did not develop organically from a potentia or germ, reunion of what was once torn apart would have been impossible. Just because, in the creation, this potential-organical was characteristic of

possibility of the reunion of our nature.

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