{"id":2210,"date":"2007-04-19T15:18:07","date_gmt":"2007-04-19T19:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/eng\/god-opens-up-himself-to-man"},"modified":"2007-04-19T15:18:07","modified_gmt":"2007-04-19T19:18:07","slug":"god-opens-up-himself-to-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/2007\/04\/19\/god-opens-up-himself-to-man\/","title":{"rendered":"God opens up Himself to man"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the next place let us note the reflex influence which all this exerts upon the prophet’s religious
\nstate of mind. <\/p>\n

The type of piety has not been changed. There is still in it the same individual, but now
\nthoroughly spiritualized intercourse between God and man. And yet, while the same qualitatively,
\nit re-emerges a thousand times intensified. The recipient of salvation lives in closer union with God
\nthan the most ideal relationship on the basis of natural religion could possibly provide. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There is
\nno joy like the joy engendered by redemption. Nor is this simply due to the law of compensation.
\nIt is true this counts for much. To estimate truly the riches of grace one must have passed through
\nthe abjectness and poverty and despair of sin. But a far more principial cause is at work here. In
\nredemption God opens up Himself to man in a wholly unprecedented manner, of which the highest
\nreligion of nature affords but the merest foretaste. One who is being saved explores and receives
\nmore of God than unfallen man or the unfallen angels ever could. A song like this has in it a deeper
\nexultation than that which the Sons of God and the Morning Stars sang together for joy in the
\nCreator.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the next place let us note the reflex influence which all this exerts upon the prophet’s religious state of mind. The type of piety has not been changed. There is still in it the same individual, but now thoroughly spiritualized intercourse between God and man. And yet, while the same qualitatively, it re-emerges a…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"twitterCardType":"","cardImageID":0,"cardImage":"","cardTitle":"","cardDesc":"","cardImageAlt":"","cardPlayer":"","cardPlayerWidth":0,"cardPlayerHeight":0,"cardPlayerStream":"","cardPlayerCodec":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}