Bibliotheca Sacra Volume 147
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Bibliotheca Sacra, Volume 147.
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“Iconoclasm toward traditional interpretations of literary texts dominates published scholarship, with the methods of deconstruction serving as the handy demolition tool for those who disdain the truth and beauty that readers have found in literature through the ages.” (Page 6)
“According to John 15, when a believer is not bearing fruit because of sin or spiritual immaturity, the Lord lovingly lifts him up so he can bear fruit. The believer who is in fellowship with Christ and who is bearing fruit is pruned so he can bear more fruit. The analogy of the vine and the branches signifies not organic connection with Christ but fellowship with Him. The believer who does not remain in fellowship because of disobedience is cast out in judgment and withers spiritually, and faces severe divine discipline in time and loss of reward at the judgment seat of Christ. Nothing in John 15:1–6 demands that it pictures loss of salvation. Nor does the passage suggest that all believers will always bear fruit. It is only believers who remain in fellowship with Christ who bear fruit.” (Page 53)
“The phrase ‘in Me’ is used 16 times in John’s Gospel (6:56; 10:38; 14:10 [twice], 11, 20, 30; 15:2, 4 [twice], 5–7; 16:33; 17:21, 23). In each case it refers to fellowship with Christ.4 It is inconsistent then to say the phrase in 15:2 refers to a person who merely professes to be saved but is not. A person ‘in Me’ is always a true Christian. But what does ‘in Me’ signify? The preposition ἔν is used ‘to designate a close personal relation.’5 It refers to a sphere within which some action occurs.6 So to abide ‘in’ Christ means to remain in close relationship to Him.” (Page 45)
- Title: Bibliotheca Sacra Volume 147
- Author: Dallas Theological Seminary
- Series: Bibliotheca Sacra
- Publisher: Dallas Theological Seminary
- Print Publication Date: 1990
- Logos Release Date: 2009
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subject: Theology › Periodicals
- Resource ID: LLS:gs_bsac_147
- Resource Type: Journal
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-02-12T03:36:24Z