[aron]

Another example for me, of moving past theology. I was interested in the subject of "the fall of the angels" and was looking at the account in Jude's epistle. I noticed the word "oikētērion", which means something like "dwelling place".

And the angels who did not keep their positions of authority but abandoned their proper dwelling—these he has kept in darkness, bound with everlasting chains for judgment on the great Day.

This word is used by Paul in 2 Cor 5:2, while he is longing to put on his heavenly body. In Lee's theology we see book after book of being incorporated into the heavenly body, but almost nothing on the problem of leaving it! And yet Jude, written to Christians, is a warning of this. So is 2 Peter. So is 1 Corinthians. So is Hebrews.

To me, this is probably a key part of the story of Jesus' redemption. There is a "going out" as well as a "coming in". But for all the ink that I see spilled, literal and virtual, on "coinherence" and "incorporation" and "mutual indwelling" and all the rest of it - I even see words like "hypostases" - dude, I am still trying to learn how to be obedient! I tried "masticating the processed Triune God", but I think that abiding in the Word is best. And if the Word goes beyond my theology, I just have to keep going; keep abiding in the Word.

Sorry for my incoherence. But I am nearly completely bewildered. Yet somehow I love it. Sometimes I feel like Peter and James and John, stunned by the cloud of glory. I don't understand the Word, but it's truly living, and operating. I love it.