Required reading
Dogmatic Theology Vol 3 by William G.T. Shedd (Available from Amazon or here) - Commence 'Eschatology' by reading up to the paragraph commencing, 'VOL. II., p. 652. Augustine (Faith and Creed, ch. x.) adopts dichometry in the constitution of man.'
My summary
Today we start our final chapter, on eschatology. We hear about:
(i) Gehenna;
(ii) Christ's (apparent) descent into Hades;
(iii) the intermediate state;
(iv) the heavenly blessedness of the Old Testament saints;
(v) the new birth;
(vi) the immortality of the soul.
What grabbed me
I liked the quote from Baxter on the fact that Old Testament saints are in glory: 'Sure it is not true that the souls of the fathers before Christ’s coming did not enter into heaven, but lay in some inferior limbus. For Moses and Elijah came from heaven; their shining glory showed that, and their discourse with Christ and the voice and glory that went with them. And it is not to be thought that they were separated from the rest of the souls of the faithful and, with Enoch, were in heaven by themselves alone and the rest elsewhere. Though it is said that God’s house has many mansions, and there are various degrees of glory, yet the blessed are all fellow citizens of one society and children of one family of God. And they that came from east and west shall sit down with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the kingdom of God; and Lazarus is in Abraham’s bosom and the believing thief with Christ in paradise.'
Absent from the body, present with the Lord.
Next week's reading
Continue 'Eschatology' by reading up to the paragraph commencing, 'VOL. II., p. 683. Olshausen on Matt. 12:32, thus interprets...'
Now it's your turn
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