Ontology of promise

We are what we will be. We are what the Father will make of us in His Son and by His Spirit.

So too the creation is what it will be.

Biblical ontology is an ontology of promise.

That is: a) Being is conferred from outside; b) being is temporal/eschatological; c) being is personally gifted.

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