http://theological.wordpress.com/2008/04/20/william-perkins-on-the-new-creation/ Think Theologically, Live Redemptively Mon, 24 Aug 2009 00:41:42 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 http://theological.wordpress.com/2008/04/20/william-perkins-on-the-new-creation/#comment-62 jdodson Mon, 21 Apr 2008 14:01:46 +0000 http://theological.wordpress.com/?p=22#comment-62 You are correct to point out that new creation is not a process. New creation is a function of inaugurated eschatology. We are new creation from the moment of regeneration but our new nature is not fully consummated in real time expression until "we see him and become like him, just as he is." You are correct to point out that new creation is not a process. New creation is a function of inaugurated eschatology. We are new creation from the moment of regeneration but our new nature is not fully consummated in real time expression until “we see him and become like him, just as he is.”

]]> http://theological.wordpress.com/2008/04/20/william-perkins-on-the-new-creation/#comment-61 lee barnes Mon, 21 Apr 2008 12:48:23 +0000 http://theological.wordpress.com/?p=22#comment-61 Is the idea of a new creation not a process, an on-going ontological experience which is shaped and formed through our responses and initiations with God. If so then are you saying that God cannot accept us until that work is done. Or at our moment of becoming a new creation all that was needed to implement this - happened. If there is a danger of re-living the 'old man' then surely it is a fluid actualization? Is the idea of a new creation not a process, an on-going ontological experience which is shaped and formed through our responses and initiations with God. If so then are you saying that God cannot accept us until that work is done. Or at our moment of becoming a new creation all that was needed to implement this – happened. If there is a danger of re-living the ‘old man’ then surely it is a fluid actualization?

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