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Feet Washing is practiced and recognized as an ordinance in our Church because Christ, by His example, showed that humility characterized greatness in the Kingdom of God, and that service, rendered to others gave evidence that humility, motivated by love, exists.
A doctrine of God that attempts to combine the strenghts of classical theism with those of classical pantheism. The term is particularly associated with the work of Charles Hartshorne (Elwell, 885).
The nature of God is often explained in the following way: He is an Omnipresent Spirit. He knows what is happening everywhere without being dependent for that knowledge on anything or anyone else. He is a spirit because he could not have to depend on physical organs like eyes and nerves to convey knowledge that he did not already have.
God is telling us in Scripture who He is; as the Psalmist says, “As is Thy name, O God [Elohim], so is Thy praise to the ends of the earth” (Ps. 48: 10). It is important to understand that only God can name himself.
In the New Testament, God’s name is manifested most clearly in Jesus Christ. He is called “the Word” (John 1:1), and Jesus Himself makes the claim that He has revealed the name of God (John 17:6). God’s name is His promise to dwell with His people.
the character of God as revealed in the context-specificity of Christian spiritual experience – Father, Son, and Holy Spirit – and more and more to the terms and ideas of scholastic theology.
These are important statements on God's overall sovereignty. In verse 2, Paul mentions "the ordinance of God." God's ordinance states His will, and He clearly establishes civil government. Therefore, we are responsible for obeying civil authority also, for in doing so we are obeying God.
