Nathanael Szobody on Life, the life of God, spiritual life, is defined by what gives all that it is.
Love is life with a purpose: it is life that gives for the sustenance of created design.
Nathanael Szobody on God’s rest is not an idle relaxing but an active enjoyment of communion with his creation.
Nathanael Szobody on The Way is flesh; John 10:9
The Truth is flesh; I John 2
The Word of life is flesh; John 1
The way of truth through the word of life became flesh and remains flesh–resurrected flesh–to communicate that life to man . Life within the incarnate Christ, therefore, is continually communicated through physical means, the high points of which are the Sacraments.
Nathanael Szobody on In response to Lora
What God wants us to know of his will he has already revealed; what we ask to know concerning our calling he has already given. The problem is that we do not take seriously what he has revealed to be his will, and we often do not recognize the freedom that we have to use what he has given.
Nathanael Szobody on In response to Frenchy’s question
If the Bible is our authority on all matters concerning our relationship with God, and if the fear of God is truly the beginning of all knowledge, then the only true philosophy is theology, and theology should only be used to strengthen our relationship with God, and by extension, with other people. Read More
Nathanael Szobody on When God ‘hides his face’ he is in fact involved so intimately in our life that we do not recognize him; he is hidden behind his own intimacy. Read More
Nathanael Szobody on If time only exists insofar as it can be measured, then it is not too difficult to imagine the absence of time. For certainly in eternity there is movement and succession of events.
It is written in Genesis that the heavenly bodies were placed to measure dates and seasons–that is, time. So the absence of time is not something mystical if it simply means that there is no repetition or cycle by which to define it.
All this is but vain speculation.
Nathanael Szobody on If time is the succession of physical events, i.e., if all motion should stop then time also would be suspended, then it is not too difficult of a problem to understand that there was no time before creation. For as soon as God commands that something physical ‘be’, and it ‘is’, then time begins. For otherwise there is no physical motion to be time.
Nathanael Szobody on Martin Luther says in his commentary on Genesis that the tree of the knowledge of good and evil was not an evil tree in itself. In fact it was a good tree, for certainly knowledge is good; how else then can God be called good? The evil was clearly in defying the prohibition concerning the tree. Read More
Nathanael Szobody on Our effectual calling to be the people of God, as individuals into a body, was not to complete our self-improvement project, nor to make us happy, nor to get us into heaven, nor to make us successful here on earth. We were chosen, called, and made holy through pain, suffering, sacrifice and death in Christ to make a dwelling place for God; to enjoy a ‘communion’ or loving presence with him in which all other blessings and pursuits find their fulfilling role. Read More