This post is the fourth in a series on the Word of God.  Posts in the series include (in order from first to last):
What is the Word of God?
God is a Talker
God's Relationship Status
The Perfect Personality (you're reading it!)

I was this close to replying to my prayer request entry myself.  I've been sick since Friday, and this morning I was in so much ( Read more... )

But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ (by grace ye are saved); and hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus: that in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness ( Read more... )

Of course, yet another possibility, is that Elves were meant to be immortal and blessed, but the fall of the entire world (whether I want to think of it as caused by demons, by men, or by demons-in-view-of-men). So when the world became corrupted, they, through no fault of their own, were caught up in its corruption. And by some special grace the ( Read more... )

I was talking to runi and I realized that one of the big problems that's been bothering me for the past few years, and really what's prompted all these thoughts on salvation, and in a way the whole theological focus of the Vahangwa mythos (even if that focus isn't really expressed in the actual works), is the question of race. By which I mean, ( Read more... )

Some scattered notes on Vahangwa and Theology

The salvation of the “minor” races of Vahangwa (dwarves, centaurs, trolls, etc.) or more broadly their place in the divine economy I think I should not treat, at least not in much detail. They aren’t as central to the work as Elves or Followers- the Dwarves serve as the shadowy proto- ( Read more... )