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Source
Bible Project podcast — https://bibleproject.com/podcasts/whats-christian-ideal-part-1-redefining-holiness/
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What this book knows
Holiness is not moral perfectionism but the human encounter with an overflowing, beautiful, wholly-other divine ideal we were made to approach.
faith-and-doubt
Rudolf Otto summarizes Old Testament holiness as 'a majesty, vitality, otherness, and compelling fascination' — the traits that make God holy.
BP-WHATS-CHRISTIAN-IDEAL-PART-1-REDEFINING-HOLINESS-RC-016God's holiness is connected to his status as creator: 'the whole earth is full of his glory' — God is the ultimate of everything.
BP-WHATS-CHRISTIAN-IDEAL-PART-1-REDEFINING-HOLINESS-RC-005The ocean lives in grand, intense abundance — 'been here long before me' — that feeling of overwhelming otherness is what holiness points toward.
BP-WHATS-CHRISTIAN-IDEAL-PART-1-REDEFINING-HOLINESS-RC-014self-and-identity
Is this workbook really on holiness, or on the bigger idea of being made for something grand — longing for it, experiencing it sometimes?
BP-WHATS-CHRISTIAN-IDEAL-PART-1-REDEFINING-HOLINESS-RC-015On the last page of the Bible there is no temple because all creation is the temple — everything is holy because the discrepancy has closed.
BP-WHATS-CHRISTIAN-IDEAL-PART-1-REDEFINING-HOLINESS-RC-012obedience-and-authority
Meeting a dignitary requires protocols that seem ridiculous out of context — purity laws work the same way, orienting approach to overwhelming holiness.
BP-WHATS-CHRISTIAN-IDEAL-PART-1-REDEFINING-HOLINESS-RC-010Illuminates
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