{"id":212,"date":"2004-10-18T23:28:17","date_gmt":"2004-10-18T23:28:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/2004\/10\/godthinking_the.shtml"},"modified":"2021-05-29T02:48:40","modified_gmt":"2021-05-29T02:48:40","slug":"godthinking_the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/2004\/10\/godthinking_the.shtml","title":{"rendered":"God-Thinking Theology"},"content":{"rendered":"

I recently discovered another blogger in my ICOC family of Churches. His site is pinakidion.com<\/a> I’m not sure what that means, but I’m glad I found his site. He has been wrestling with much of the same things I have over the last year or two. He’ll make it onto the links at the left in the coming days.
\nI’ve been going through his old posts and came across this post<\/a> from a couple of weeks ago about ‘God-Thinking Theology’. In it he talks about how Barnabas’ vouching for Saul is what led to his acceptance in Jeruselem, not anything Saul did to prove himself. In fact, any attempt by Saul to prove himself would have probably backfired. Barnabas is one of my favorite NT characters because of how he stood up for Saul like he did. He didn’t have to and he had little to gain in doing so.
\nPinakidion’s point is that just as Barnabas was Saul’s advocate before men, Jesus is our advocate before God. And just as Barnabas eliminated the need for Saul to prove himself before the apostles, Jesus means we have nothing to prove to anyone. God accepts us because Jesus vouches for us. Go read his post, it’s very good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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