Andrew

“Theology is necessary because truth and experience are related. While some would deny or at least question this connection, in the long run the truth will affect our experience. A person who falls from the tenth story of a building may shout while passing each window on the way down, “I’m still doing fine,” and may mean it sincerely, but eventually the facts of the matter will catch up with the person’s experience.”
― Millard J. Erickson, Christian Theology

“We often tend to think of the Father as transcendent and far off in heaven; similarly, the Son may seem far removed in history and thus also relatively unknowable. But the Holy Spirit is active within the lives of believers; he is resident within us. He is the particular person of the Trinity through whom the entire Triune Godhead currently works in us.”
― Millard J. Erickson, Christian Theology

“There will always be a difference between God and human beings. The gap between us is not merely a moral and spiritual disparity which originated with the fall. It is metaphysical, stemming from creation. Even when redeemed and glorified, we will still be his human creatures. We will never become God.”
― Millard J. Erickson, Introducing Christian Doctrine

“Galatians 4:4: “But when the set time had fully come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under the law.” It is apparent, then, that for the disciples and the authors of the New Testament books, there was no question about Jesus’s humanity.”
― Millard J. Erickson, Christian Theology