Fr. Barron reviews "The Shack"

Another part of a video series from Wordonfire.org. Father Barron will be commenting on subjects from modern day culture. For more visit http://www.wordonfire.org/

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[Jugglable]

Before Jesus came to earth, was God already a Trinity? This may sound smart-assed, but is not intended to be.

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Sure. God is, in himself, a play of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, precisely because God "is" love. There must be, from all eternity, a play of lover, beloved, and love within the very essence of God. Jesus makes the Son iconically available to us within history, just as the Church makes the Spirit iconically apparent.

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@wolf1750 Where do you think Catholic missionaries, nurses, doctors, and pastoral ministers go? They specialize in hanging out at hospitals where kids are dying, at nursing homes where old people are lonely, in villages in Africa and Asia where there is no food. They go there because they believe in a loving God, who identifies with the suffering of the world. Why does God permit evil? Take a good long look at the book of Job, and then at the cross of Christ.

[wordonfirevideo]

@wolf1750 Friend, believers in Christ are those who look, every day, at the crucified Lord. We look right into the face of the God who accompanies us in our deepest anguish. There is no religion that looks away from evil less than Christianity!

[djquiz6425]

@Jugglable Yes. Jesus was there when Earth and Heaven were created according to what Jesus claims for Himself.

[TheRekcabOfTheD]

@Jugglable The First passage of John deals with this, kinda. "In the beginning was the Word (Jesus) and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." and like Father Barron mentioned in the Comments if their is a Lover (God) and a Beloved (the Word/ Jesus) then there has to be a Love shared between them (the Holy Spirit). It is also said in the Nicene creed, (I am paraphrasing) "I believe in the holy Spirit who has spoken through the prophets". The Prophets are, obviously, Old Testament.

[saralsth]

@fkanga here is a reformed perspective: watch?v=pK65Jfny70Y

[fkanga]

It is interesting that you say that God sounds like Martin Luther in this book because I have read many Lutheran reviews and the vast majority of "orthodox" Lutherans think it is incompatible with Lutheranism because it promotes universalism and has a false understanding of the Lutheran position regarding the relationship between Law and Grace. They thought that it was more Reformed. It would be interesting to see what the Reformed think. This could be an interesting ecumenical case study.