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Grey Hamilton's avatar

I’m surely getting ahead of myself (you? us?) being that this is Part 1 of the series - but may the crux of the issue be found in the question of whether participation in Grace always & necessarily requires consciousness/awareness of the source of Grace? I’ll stop before I say something heretical lol

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God created humanity "very good" (Gen 1:31). Sin entered the world and Adam and Eve could no longer walk with God "in the cool of the day" (Gen 3:8) and shortly thereafter were driven out of the Garden (Gen 3:24). What was lost was the direct communion with God, not the human nature that is "created whole and complete in itself" (Beck, Nov 8) that God declared was very good. Because of the fall, we see God now only "darkly" (1 Cor 13:12), St Paul tells us, but "when the perfect comes, the imperfect will pass away" and we shall see God face to face, "and then I shall understand fully".

Given this, an argument can be made that the atheist can "be happy, well-adjusted, fulfilled and self-actualized" without any acknowledgement of God at all, but if he spent time in communion with God, he would be happier, better-adjusted, more fulfilled and more self-actualized.

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