🌱Seed 😁Strongly-Agree 🟢Conviction 🏖️Universe-Humans
The Big Idea
How does God work in the world? He words through two different realms in the world.
- Temporal (Left Hand). Goal is the uphold God’s justice for the oppressed mostly interested in Coram Mundo stuff. Formula of Concord VI para 6. and Romans 13. Law is key as God’s will for creation. Ethics and the way people live is what we are interested over here. Trying to hold to world together and keep sin in check. No government can save or create a perfect utopia it is just to keep a lid on it.
- Spiritual Realm (Right Hand). Goal is to point everyone toward Jesus and His final rule and reign coming at the second coming. Mostly interested in Coram Deo stuff. Gospel is key for proclaiming the word of God faithfully and true. Means of Grace are central thing over here. This aims at the true salvation of the world and humans that can only be achieved by the work of Jesus on the Cross. This is the full restoration of Creation through Christ.
- The two realms are not at odds with each other they have specific God given functions. But they also should not just run together and become one big mess.
- Both realms are merged and put fully under Jesus when Jesus is fully ruling and reigning in both realms as one new reality.
- We live in both realms at once and inform out life in the world by our identity in Christ.
- This is all a tangible reality not a kind of platonic or gnostic distinction.
- Axioms at work in this framework:
- Careful distinction without divorcing them from one another.
- There would be a cooperation between the two realms without them being confused with each other.
Biermann Systems Lecture: Systematics IV Class 15