Story: Matthew 25

January 7, 2024 · Ben Hoyer · 26:55

Drawing on seminary categories of theology, this message reflects on systematic theology and the doctrine of God's immutability, questioning whether God changes and contrasting Western doctrinal categories with the narrative of Scripture.

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you have to be a human being. And you have to be a human being. And you think of these strange things that you can't believe in. These strange things are not used. They're not used to being human. And you think of these strange things that you can't believe in. And you think of these strange things that have come into this story that you can't believe in. And you think of these strange things that have come into this story that you can't believe in.

And you think of these strange things that you can't believe in. These strange things are not used to being human. And you think of these strange things that you can't believe in. And you think of these strange things that you can't believe in. And you think of these strange things that you can't believe in. And you think of these strange things that you can't believe in. But you think of these strange things that you can't believe in. And you think of these strange things

that you can't believe in. And you think of these strange things that you can't believe in. And you think of these strange things that you can't believe in. And you think of these strange things that you can't believe in. And you think of these strange things that you can't believe in. And you think of these strange things that you can't believe in. And you think of these strange things that you can't believe in. And you think of these strange things that you can't believe in.

And you think of these strange things that you can't believe in. And you think of these strange things that you can't believe in. And you think of these strange things that you can't believe in. And you think of these strange things that you can't believe in. And you think of these strange things that you can't believe in. And in seminary, they use, I think, different categories of classes. Right? So you have the, the general classes where you are the learners that you grew

and translate and understand the meaning and the context. The historical classes that you're looking at the history of the church and how the all of these formulated in the context of history. You have systematically all of them. And we learned how to be system-atized and what we learned about them. This is my favorite. Systematic theology. And one of the coolest ideas that emerged to be out of the systematic theology was like a way of thinking that

re-emerged in the 70s with this one dude who wrote a book called The End of Doctrine. The name is Rembrandt, The End of Doctrine. Because I'm super happy that it's probably not a real man. But I can summarize the point of it. Rembrandt had said that the church had left kind of the Mid-Eastern history and roots and moved so fully into a Western kind of

Breckle-Growman way of thinking about God such that he had these large categories that had turned into doctrine that were then standing outside of God's revelation about himself in the story and coming back in the story. So I'll give you an example. The one that I'm going to tell is that it's a notion that God would be immutable. Because God is perfect, he can never change. Right? But then you look into the story of

Scripture and you see in places, in stories where it seems like God's ! All the ones who do like this notion of Jesus Christ, and the ones who have been ! And in this, we think that we believe in this based on the moral experience or more thinking about the position of God. And we believe in the notion of being the only thing that is

going to happen. We believe in the making. We believe in the thinking of being the same. We believe in the meaning of being the only thing that is going to happen in the story. And we believe in the thinking of being the only thing that is going to happen in the community. And we realize how much of the bound to be. How much of the bound to be the kind of things that we say

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