Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Embryonic thought about Second Birth narratives and Paul
I haven't had time to really develop this thought, but I realized that even though Paul didn't have a dramatic birth narrative, he does have a dramatic, supernatural conversion narrative, a narrative of RE-BIRTH. As do others in the New Testament. Maybe after Jesus' final triumphant birth, and then the Death of Death that He wrought on the cross-His killing the second death and rending the wall-like curtain to the Holy of Holies from top to bottom, was the point from which the narratives thereafter would be of rebirth and transformation, tales of the experience of being Born Again, testimonies of His Triumph, testimonies that all those dramatic narratives of first births were all leading up to the real Story, The Grand Narrative, (yes, HIStory) (: the fruit of the New Covenant, the Second Births.
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