The Divine Culture

Be a good Berean (Acts 17.11)...

Suppose the economy of relationship between the members of the Triune Godhead can be described in terms of culture. In seeing the perfect God, we can assume the interactions between the perfectly communing persons of the Godhead to be equally perfectly loving —indeed, we see this typification in Scripture through the deference of the Son to the Father and the harmonious purpose of Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.

Can this culture be commuted into human terms? Though we can label in acts of God with our words, our descriptions fails to express the ineffable—and our comprehension of our words comes up all the more short. Yet in Scripture we see revealed a human application of the divine culture.

What was Eden, but man communing with God? Man, living by God's terms, partakes in the divine culture.

Though not doctrine to hang your hat on, ponder the Pentateuchal law as God's revelation of his divine culture to man: a means by which to live lovingly in relation to God and to one another. The failure of Israel to enact this is easily noted.

The Incarnation is the gate through which humanity becomes able to enter into the divine culture. As new creations in Christ, believers are called to the deep princples of love for God and neighbor—empowered by the Holy Spirit through the work of Christ.

The Christian dies to self and human culture and is made a new creation in the divine culture, communing with God through Christ. The Gospel transcends culture in that it brings a new, transcendent culture to replace the finite, fallen human culture.