Creator-creature distinction

doctrine · 10 episodes

191Hananiah, Mishael, Azariah, and Daniel 29 Apr 2024 3:27¶ 12 “Yes, so this stands at the beginning of the second age of mankind, this new beginning after the flood. The idea there is that…” 4:01¶ 13 “It’s a rejection of the biblical doctrine of the discontinuity of being or the Creator/creature distinction, the belief that man and God are ultimately…” 12:40¶ 33 “Nebuchadnezzar is operating in terms of idolatry, but the idolatry is that of ancient Babel. The power, the hope, the virtue of the state,…”

155The Lord is There 30 Jan 2023 6:11¶ 19 “First of all, he looks at the Hebrew doctrine of creation and comes up with the proper interpretation that God made the world. God…” 8:11¶ 24 “On this first doctrine, Harvey Cox – whether he believes in the biblical doctrine of creation; he doesn’t actually say – understands the implication…” 22:42¶ 67 “So going back to the Creator/creation distinction, which was affirmed so powerfully at the Council of Chalcedon, by saying that even in Jesus Christ…”

148Through Fiery Trials 12 Dec 2022 25:40¶ 93 “Dr. Rudolph from Episcopal Seminary had a saying. “He is not it and it is not he.” He’d draw a big circle. “This is…” 26:10¶ 94 “Dr. Rudolph had another line that I like. “God makes ducks, but God does not quack,” by which he simply meant God makes his…” 23:17¶ 83 “God is not like any other thing. Yes, he is like everything that he has made, and he is not like anything he has…”

67The Metaphysics of Christian Education 11 Apr 2021 2:42¶ 8 “Christianity is the one religion that says there’s God and then there’s the stuff he made, and there’s no mixture between the two. God…” 0:56¶ 4 “The Bible answer is unique. There’s no other religion that comes close, that kind of parallels. It’s a watered-down version because Christianity starts with,…” 3:13¶ 9 “God became man exactly once in the person of Jesus Christ, and even there there is no confusion between that which is divine and…”

64The Next Generation 21 Mar 2021 18:56¶ 53 “So as we look at the sermon here, although Deuteronomy doesn’t drive it home, we can’t forget that we’ve been told now for four…” 19:30¶ 54 “What we’re left with is the sovereign covenant God who, although he is transcendent, condescends to meet a people on his terms, but terms…” 17:47¶ 51 “My sister-in-law said, “No, that’s not it.” She said what she thought, and our friend chimed in and said, “What’s really going on here…”

61Liberty and Responsibility 28 Feb 2021 1:55¶ 6 “He hath done whatsoever he hath pleased. Ultimately, no other deity in the history of philosophy and religion can make this claim. We’ve talked…” 4:27¶ 13 “Christianity, in drawing this line and saying “Here’s God. He is freedom and love and beauty and glory,” and then there’s creation, which in…” 7:13¶ 21 “Van Til used the phrase – he wasn’t the first, but I think of him when using the word ‘analogical’ to describe any attribute…”

25Resurrection and the Cult of the Dead 21 Jun 2020 17:18¶ 48 “I can forgive that in junior high students or 9th graders, but I think there are a lot of adults even within the church…” 17:53¶ 49 “The goal of paganism since Eden forward is to be as God, and it’s pretty clear that the physical elements of this world somehow…” 18:42¶ 51 “Exactly, and this is all something that every pagan worldview shares, that there is no real creator in their cosmology or their ontology. Christianity…”

13The Day the World Died 29 Mar 2020 35:56¶ 112 “Once you deny the creator/creation distinction, you don’t get rid of God. You deify everything. At that point you’re left with magic. The macrocosm…” 35:39¶ 111 “They can look at this and they can name the gods, but yes, at the same time it’s a wholly natural, because wholly supernatural…”

10Myth of Neutrality 8 Mar 2020 41:34¶ 134 “It goes back to what we know and can surmise of the philosophers and theologians who existed before the Greek Socratics. We’re looking particularly…” 43:17¶ 137 “So given some of the things we’ve talked about and are going to be talking about, I think this is crucial to see someone…”

2In The Beginning 12 Jan 2020 16:44¶ 58 “So continuity of being. Dr. Van Til speaks of the creator/creation distinction. His friend at the Episcopal Seminary in Philadelphia across town, Dr. Rudolph…” 17:22¶ 62 “God does not intersect with creation. Creation does not intersect with God. But then he’d draw a couple lines from the God circle to…” 17:41¶ 63 “Dr. Rudolph was very fond of one-liners, and one that I enjoy is, “God makes ducks, but God doesn’t quack,” by which he simply…”