Visible invisibility :chuckle:
I wonder from which commentary he lifted that saying...
Romans 1:20 For
the invisible things of him from the creation of the world
are clearly seen, being understood
by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:
IP is not off in his UNDERSTANDING of a "visible invisibility" - he is off, however in his UNDERSTANDING of how it applies prior to The Mystery.
And even then, he is off in his UNDERSTANDING of that, only partly.
For throughout Israel's long, rebellious history, their Believing remnant were nevertheless a visible manifestation of what will one day be their visible kingdom.
This is why within some circles within MAD, they are referred to as "Kingdom" Saints.
These issues are ever a matter of what questions one asks oneself upon encountering a view one finds differs from one's own.
Too often, the tendency is to automatically discount all of another's assertion, in contrast to simply slowing down a bit first, to ask oneself much more well rounded questions about their assertion, before allowing one self one's conclusion on it.
One of the worst things one can do to one's learning is to so write off another individual, that one ends up neither unable to concede where some aspect of said individual's "witness is true" nor able to get something of actual value from it, despite where it may have been off.
Leaving oneself with intolerance for any contribution but from those one considers one's own.
Such was not...the way of our pattern; in the Lord.
Titus 1:12 One of themselves, even a prophet of their own, said, The Cretians are alway liars, evil beasts, slow bellies. 1:13 This witness is true. Wherefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith; 1:14 Not giving heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of men, that turn from the truth. 1:15 Unto the pure all things are pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience is defiled. 1:16 They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate.
Nevertheless, Rom. 5:8
