tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13323795.post1729953986542282624..comments2023-09-19T10:31:04.810-04:00Comments on beloved before time: Fulfilled weather, unfulfilled longingsAndrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03215174193221101678noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13323795.post-44987136572312258142008-10-02T10:40:00.000-04:002008-10-02T10:40:00.000-04:00Sheesh indeed - I was just teasing you! And you t...Sheesh indeed - I was just teasing you! <BR/><BR/>And you took the list off! I can't remember but 6 items - now it's going to drive me nutty trying to remember the other 4!Halfmom, AKA, Susanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03545176965972986964noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13323795.post-929767134255320892008-10-01T01:57:00.000-04:002008-10-01T01:57:00.000-04:00Your words, Andrew, remind me of C.S. Lewis, "The ...Your words, Andrew, remind me of C.S. Lewis, "The Great Divorce." And hearing from a C.S. Lewis scholar who happens to be a writer at RBC Ministries, Dennis Fisher, I've learned that there is probably something of platonic influence in Scripture- shadows to reality, as in the book of Hebrews. C.S. Lewis has been criticized by at least one leading evangelical scholar on this, but I think both Lewis, and Dennis are correct (I need to read all of Lewis before I die, something to do on my before I die list!). Dennis delivered a paper on this in an ETS meeting in San Diego, and it's a good one.<BR/><BR/>I think you're so right, Andrew. Also I think we can get a good taste of the substance and reality in the here and now. In good companionship with others in the Lord, in our enjoyment of God's great and good creation- such as in this month of October and Autumn, which I love, too (along with Spring).<BR/><BR/>And I think these longings are testimony to others of the reality to come in Jesus. Part of our witness to the world, and of the substance of faith now.Ted M. Gossardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10580691315315271791noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13323795.post-82821034964383039132008-09-30T22:42:00.000-04:002008-09-30T22:42:00.000-04:00No, not in that order, of course! (either of pref...No, not in that order, of course! (either of preference or chronologically!) Sheesh!Andrewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03215174193221101678noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13323795.post-62151192572064731032008-09-30T22:34:00.000-04:002008-09-30T22:34:00.000-04:00In that order?In that order?Halfmom, AKA, Susanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03545176965972986964noreply@blogger.com