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(Mere Christianity, Rev. Jaehoon Lee)
Chapter 3 is titled

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'Time and Beyond Time'

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Who is our God? He is 'Beyond Time'

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'Beyond Time' equates to eternity

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God is eternal,

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and it is wrong to explain His being

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with the concept of time

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We use the concept of time

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to explain past, present and future

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The present we experience
will soon become a past

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And the future ahead of us

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will soon become our present

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Like so, time passes

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We live in this passing time

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that does not stop

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And for us humans,

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our lives will always be

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in this time, past, present, and future

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However, God it beyond time

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Eternity does not mean

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that His time does not end

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and extends forever

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It is simply 'Beyond' time

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So the world beyond time is eternity

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Eternity is always at present

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God does not have past or present tense

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He is always in present

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We reminisce on our past,

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but that is His present

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We wait for our future,

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and God does not

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foresee the future ahead,

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but it is also his present

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For us time passes linearly,
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But for God, all the three
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So he is always present

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We say, 'God is in an eternal prsent'

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to mean the same thing

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How how is time different form eternity?

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As a literature scholar, Lewis takes

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the time that an author experiences

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For example, let's say

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that a person goes on
a journey in a novel

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She packs his bag, she buys some things

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She goes to the airport,
and it may take a long time

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Let's say it took
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The author may only take
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The time in that novel took three years,

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but for the author, who is beyond
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That's why our time in history,

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whether it be 100 or 200 years,

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or even 1,000 or 10,000 years,

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it may be a lot for us

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But for God,

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His time is beyond time,

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and in his eternal view,

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this is in a different dimension

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God is the Sovereign of history

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He is the author of
all the script in history

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He produces it

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And he gets glorified
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That's why the title,
'Time and Beyond Time'

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recognizes how God
participates in history

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yet exists outside this

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stream of history

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Mere Christianity

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Book 4
Beyond Personality, or First Steps
in the Doctrine of the Trinity

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Chapter 4 Good Infection
Chapter 5 The Obstinate Toy Soldiers

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Let's go back to
Chapter 4, 'Good Infection'

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As we discusses last week,

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it talks about the reason

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that Jesus came to this world

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The Triune God

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He is Three in One

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'One in essence, three in person'

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Three in person, one in essence,

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why did He come to us?

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IT's for the salvation of humanity

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The Creator and Triune God

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is also the one who worked

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for the salvation of humanity

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Jesus Christ is God’s only begotten Son,

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who incarnated and came to this earth

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The Holy Spirit works
to apply His actions to us

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and manifest them as fruit

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What is the purpose of the Triune God?

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This is to fulfill the plan
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created by Him, to be

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adopted as His children in Jesus Christ,

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God’s Son, and

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transformed to be like Him

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Behind the incredible work of salvation

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by the Triune God lies love
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the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit

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God, in His love, sent
His only Son to the world

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Jesus Christ, the only Son,

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in love for His Father,

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offered Himself in sacrifice

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The Holy Spirit is actively spreading

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the love of Christ’s sacrifice
on the cross to the entire world

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The Holy Spirit dwells within us,

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allowing God to reside in us,

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and works to transform us

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with the life of Christ’s resurrection

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The Holy Spirit is at work,

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transforming our bios (biological life)

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into zoe (eternal life)

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This triune God’s work
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as a 'good infection,'

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(Biological to eternal life)
as it transforms our bios into zoe

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or, the 'Good Infection'

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The history of faith in Jesus

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spreads among many people

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like an infection

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Evangelism and missions
are also an infection

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Today, we live in an age
marked by infectious diseases

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Think of the COVID-19 pandemic

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This single virus infects

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the entire world, which made us

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aware of the dangers of contagion

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While physical contagion

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breaks us down, as seen in history,

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there is a life-giving,
positive contagion

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This is the life of Jesus Christ,
the zoe spreading life to us all

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To anyone who hears the news
of Jesus Christ and believes in Him,

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the Holy Spirit spreads
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through the work of the Triune God,

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creating a life-giving contagion

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We may not

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be able to learn the Bible theologically,

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and only know parts of it

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Those who have life are infectious

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Intelligence and wealth
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Those who have life can give birth

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I may be flawed, weak,

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perhaps rough in personality,

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but a life begets a life

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This concept of life is beyond ethics

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Life is beyond

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After that life,

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how should we live that life?

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That's the morality

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In sum, Jesus

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has brought the 'good infection' to us

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With the work of the Triune God,

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that good infection is also at work

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So this is the summary

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'Christ becoming human made
all of humanity into children of God'

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'This impacts those born after Christ
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even to those who have
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'It transforms created
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changing us from a
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to a timeless, spiritual life'

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It's an impressive quote

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(Bio → Zoe: with Christ's incarnation)
His work is turning bios,
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into zoe, eternal life

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That is

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why Jesus Christ came to this world

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Mere Christianity
Book 4 Beyond Personality, or
First Steps in the Doctrine of the Trinity
Chapter 6 Two Notes

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Chapter 6 is 'Two Notes'

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If God wanted a son,

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he could make more

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He did not need to

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try and fix the flawed beings

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He did not need the risk

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of His Son's painful sacrifice

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in order for us to be His children

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He could've started with many

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Taking these

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Lewis is addressing this

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(Why allow His Son's sacrifice?)
What's the reason?

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(To to preserve human free will)
It's because the free will
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gave us a freedom in which

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we cannot betray, that's not freedom

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Also, God did not want

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a mechanical and automatic thing

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that is impossible to leave Him

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He wanted this free will

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to freely love Him,

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praise Him, and obey Him

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is through which God
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The love without the free will

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God also is not glorified with

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any praise or worship

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that is not given with our free will

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just bringing one’s body,
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and vain worship, as God reproaches

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in the image of God with free will

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Humans were corrupted
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but God, through the cross

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of His Son, Jesus Christ, has saved us

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and turned us into His children

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This amazing work

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is what God has done

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In sum, God's life

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coming to humanity

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And the biological life in human

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turning into the eternal life, zoe,

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to go into the life of God

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The history of unity

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is the purpose of the Triune God

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as Lewis explains

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C.S. Lewis wants to note
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guide to the faith we believe in

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(NEXT Chapter 7 Let's Pretend)
Next chapter will also about the Trinity

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Book 4
Beyond Personality, or First
Steps in the Doctrine of the Trinity

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Chapter 3: Beyond Time
1.	Human Time
Past ➔ Present ➔ Future
2.	God’s Time
God’s Eternity ➔ Always Present

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Chapter 4: Good Infection
Chapter 5: The Obstinate Toy Soldiers
1.	Why did the Triune God come?
For human salvation (subsequent event)

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2.	The good infection that saves us
Human bios (biological life)
➔ Jesus’s zoe (eternal life)

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3.	The effect of Jesus becoming human
Making all of humanity sons of God

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Chapter 6: Two Notes
1.	Why did God allow Jesus’s sacrifice?
To protect human free will

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2.	God’s plan for humanity
To be glorified through human free will