Comments on: Is Your Faith a Fraud? http://firstthings.com/blogs/evangel/2012/04/is-your-faith-a-fraud/ A First Things Blog Tue, 06 Nov 2012 13:35:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Truth Unites... and Divides http://firstthings.com/blogs/evangel/2012/04/is-your-faith-a-fraud/#comment-21062 Truth Unites... and Divides Fri, 20 Apr 2012 00:22:44 +0000 http://firstthings.com/blogs/evangel/?p=12228#comment-21062 <i>"It is a faith that’s a fraud."</i> Priestess Heyward's faith was a fraud, you say? “It is a faith that’s a fraud.”

Priestess Heyward’s faith was a fraud, you say?

]]> By: Nikolai Volk http://firstthings.com/blogs/evangel/2012/04/is-your-faith-a-fraud/#comment-21061 Nikolai Volk Thu, 19 Apr 2012 00:09:55 +0000 http://firstthings.com/blogs/evangel/?p=12228#comment-21061 <i>Heyward may believe she retains Jesus’ divinity in her theological framework, but by elevating fallen humanity and “other creatures” to equality with Jesus when she writes “you and I are as much…as Jesus was…” we have a significant problem. You can’t escape Heywards problem with authority through the pages of SJTWR and that it serves as the basis for undermining the authority of scripture and the status of the second person of the Trinity.</i> Heyward is right in pointing out that Jesus suffered exactly as we do. There is a problem, however, in overemphasizing his humanity, which it seems that she's doing. I think this is well demonstrated in Scorcese's <i>The Last Temptation of Christ;</i> he no doubt suffered and was tempted, but he never sinned. I think Christians do often underemphasize this; many seem to think that Jesus was God "pretending" to share in the suffering of humanity. (This is never explicitly said, but it's how it's often treated.) Heyward may believe she retains Jesus’ divinity in her theological framework, but by elevating fallen humanity and “other creatures” to equality with Jesus when she writes “you and I are as much…as Jesus was…” we have a significant problem. You can’t escape Heywards problem with authority through the pages of SJTWR and that it serves as the basis for undermining the authority of scripture and the status of the second person of the Trinity.

Heyward is right in pointing out that Jesus suffered exactly as we do. There is a problem, however, in overemphasizing his humanity, which it seems that she’s doing. I think this is well demonstrated in Scorcese’s The Last Temptation of Christ; he no doubt suffered and was tempted, but he never sinned. I think Christians do often underemphasize this; many seem to think that Jesus was God “pretending” to share in the suffering of humanity. (This is never explicitly said, but it’s how it’s often treated.)

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