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I wouldn't argue with that. It's dense, for sure.
Baxter Kruger, Jesus and the Undoing of Adam. I want to read just a little quote:
“Behind creation, figuring as the driving force of all divine activity, as the one thought at the forefront of the divine mind and the preoccupation of the heart of God, was the decision to give human beings a place in the circle of the Trinity.”
That's good. That's the point, and that's probably where I picked it up, ain't gonna lie. I've been reading him so long, it's absorbed in me, not realizing it.
But God was happy within Himself as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, enjoying that dance with one another, loving one another, preferring one another, other-centered, self-giving love. But they were enjoying one another so much, they wanted to share themselves with another. And that's when God said, “Let us create man in our own image.”
This is just one of Baxter Kruger's books. He has several, and they're all good.
Yeah. Well, I've read that book. I highly recommend it. There's also YouTube teachings. I think it's a four-part series that Baxter does on The Undoing of Adam.
I've mentioned this before, but I'll say it again. In my memory, which could be fuzzy, I think it was video three, but I may be wrong. But it's in one of those videos that Baxter made some comment to the effect that this is how I retell it. This is not how he said it.
When we're preaching a penal substitutionary gospel, which is what I was raised on, “If God would do that to His Son, what would He do to me?” And that behind that gospel is this questioning in our heart: “Can He be trusted if this is how He is?”
And however he said that, and I probably ought to go back and listen to it again. Kind of like I ought to read that book again, listen to those videos again.
But that was a huge point of, in my mind, of yes, this is why.
Because I had come to a place of frustration as a pastor of why people didn't love the Lord like I tried to love the Lord. Why they didn't trust Him like I was trying to trust Him. I had noticed there's this gap.
And then when he said that, I'm like, “Oh, that's what's wrong with the gospel I'm preaching.”
And that's when I began to see it and consciously shift away from that into a better understanding of what Jesus has accomplished.
Who God is.