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All of us have some belief about God. Even those who do not believe any god exists have a belief about God- its just that- they don’t believe any god exists. I once heard someone say that he was an agnostic insomniac with sever dyslexia and that this combination of conditions caused him to lie awake at night wondering of there is a dog. Yeah you’re right… that’s just a recycled old joke. Funny though huh?
Well saying that we all have some belief about God is the same as saying we all have some knowledge about God. Whether our personal knowledge about God is that there is no such thing or that He is a singular being all by Himself in the cosmos or that God exists as Father, Son, and Spirit, we all have some God-Knowledge.
So guess what? There is a term used to refer to God-Knowledge and it actually means just that. That term is Theology. Now don’t get scared and stay away from that back button… theology should thrill you not bore you or intimidate you. Theology’s task is to excite and thrill people about the good news of Who is God. The fact that we wince or shutter at the word theology is a sad indictment on it’s practitioners. Theology is a discipline by which we may grasp the entire council of God.
In the first instance the question for every theology and every theologian is this: “Who is this God revealed in Jesus Christ?” It is here that each of us must start in thinking about our God.
Theology should incite in us a feeling of goodness and joy. I am not a trained theologian– lets just say I am a theologian in training. I have two good mentors Timothy J. Brassell of Portsmouth, VA and Grace Communion International- and Dr. C. Baxter Kruger of Jackson, MS and Perichoresis, Inc. With their guidance, the guidance of the Grace Communion International Theology Team, and the studies I am a part of at Grace Communion Seminary my hope is to become a pastoring theologian of sorts that can help heal the bad reputation theology has earned itself over the past few hundred years. The Science of God should make us leap for joy as the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit reveal to us the boundless love and acceptance of the Father’s embrace of humanity in the person of Jesus Christ.
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