“in his grace, God condescended to care for his creation. He has taken the initiative to bring healing. He entered into the world and brought redemption to it. God’s work of redemption required the incarnation of God the Son. The… — Glenn R. Kreider Copy Share Image
“Forgiveness is extravagant. In fact, the more one has been forgiven, Jesus teaches, the more one will love.” — Glenn R. Kreider Copy Share Image
“The term condescension is used in two significantly different ways in contemporary discourse. It evokes negative emotions when it is used in the sense… — Glenn R. Kreider Copy Share Image
“Because grace is unmerited favor, it cannot be earned or deserved. Thus, forgiveness can never be forced or mandated. Yet the Scriptures teach that… — Glenn R. Kreider Copy Share Image
“if God is most clearly revealed in his Son, and if this revelation is humble and sacrificial, and if God wants his followers to… — Glenn R. Kreider Copy Share Image
“If God is going to teach us about things we do not know by direct experience (such as his attributes), he has to teach… — Glenn R. Kreider Copy Share Image
“In order to redeem humanity and to bring to completion the regeneration of all things, God himself came to earth, became a creature, and… — Glenn R. Kreider Copy Share Image
“only the last two chapters of Revelation are devoted to the new creation, although it is the goal toward which the biblical story is… — Glenn R. Kreider Copy Share Image
“I suspect that the humility of God is difficult to accept because of the implications that such a doctrine would have for us. If… — Glenn R. Kreider Copy Share Image
“Rather, the incarnation of the eternal Son of God was prefigured or foreshadowed in God’s appearances on earth, his active involvement in the created… — Glenn R. Kreider Copy Share Image
“it is not just the incarnation that reveals God by means of condescension. Any involvement of God in his world is an act of… — Glenn R. Kreider Copy Share Image
“Forgiveness is rooted in the character of God. Jesus’ opponents correctly noted that no one can forgive sins except God (Mark 2:7). At the… — Glenn R. Kreider Copy Share Image
“In short, the self-sufficient, wholly other, transcendent, and holy God condescended to create a world and creatures, knowing that they would reject him and… — Glenn R. Kreider Copy Share Image
“God was under no obligation to create and, when his creatures rebelled, he was under no obligation to continue to sustain them. His creatures… — Glenn R. Kreider Copy Share Image
“in his grace, God condescended to care for his creation. He has taken the initiative to bring healing. He entered into the world and… — Glenn R. Kreider Copy Share Image
“The third act of the biblical story is the completion of God’s work of redemption, the culmination of his plan for his creation in… — Glenn R. Kreider Copy Share Image
