Hi brambonius

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interesting, and I think I agree... In Him we live, in Him we move, in Him we have our being... Or like the orthodox say, the energies of God sustain all of creation and we would not 'be' without them. This is close to the panentheism of some in the emerging church, but faraway from most of protestantism. Deism could never have emerged from the older view, and in a way this absent God of much protestants (which is only te be found in the bible) is a precursor for the non-existent god of atheism...

I would never have made the connection with nominalism; I have to reread and rethink some stuff, I hope I find the time for that, because this seems like something very important.

So we have 2 aspects of hell, none of which have to do with being tormented or actively punished. The C.S. Lewis view of getting our own Kingdom and getting cut away from God, which may result in non-existence or at least ceasing to be the imago dei (as NT Wright says somewhere) and the intolerable holiness of God (an idea I first encountered in Sundar singh, and later found again in the orthodox tradition, but might also be implied in the end of Lewis' great divorce, when the ghostly narrator seems to get dissolved in the breaking light of the morning) which makes it impossible for an unreconciled person to be in Gods presence. (which is why in the OT people who encountered YHWH were surprised that they had not died)

"All of the arguments about free will vs. determinism, etc, disappear under the sacramental ontology, because if God is the source of our existence, then following God’s will for our lives is not submitting to some arbitrary omnipotent bully completely outside of us, but instead connecting fully with the source of our being instead of getting tossed around by idolatrous fetishes that don’t represent our true desires."  

YESSS!!!

shalom

Bram