Loosely based on the first chapter of T.F. Torrance, The Trinitarian Faith.
Because God makes himself known in Christ, to whom the Holy Scriptures bear authoritative witness, there are definite boundaries to our knowledge of God - if we stray beyond the witness of Scripture and the person and work of Jesus Christ (which I have deliberately made co-extensive in the diagram), we do not truly see God; we are heretics. But if we are orthodox - looking to the Scriptures to see Jesus, expecting that in him we will see God revealed - then we gaze into the infinite depths of the being of God. We can know him truly, but in knowing him truly we see that we can never know him exhaustively. There will always be more to know, and yet we don't look to one side or the other to find it: the 'more' is in the depths, not to the sides, and we must continue to focus our gaze on Jesus Christ through the Scriptures.
Orthodoxy is closed to anything that departs from the Biblical Christ, but infinitely open to the God revealed in Jesus as we see him in the Bible.
Love it - would be even better in 3D!
ReplyDeleteThat would certainly challenge my very limited drawing skills. What's missing here, of course, is the Holy Spirit, but I think you could argue he is represented in the arrows...
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