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[ronweastwin]

I did not grow up as a gay kid playing football in a rural Texas town and this book gave me around 50 additional reasons to be glad of that fact. Somewhere it was described as like a queer-gothic-horror-mystery-Friday Night Lights-thriller; a description that I wasn’t sure was an enticement or a warning. Either way, it proved to be deadly accurate, and I turned every page with a mixture of fear and excitement. #dernstreads #johnfram #bookstagram (at New York, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/CDuiUYoDBEi/?igshid=9fqj6pwpceo6

[ivyleaguetheologian-blog]

Frame, Fry and Perspective Theology

I think it was Stephen fry who once said “A true thing, poorly expressed is a lie” those words have become a piercing truth. The lack of interpreting communication, is the link that breaks down truth. No matter how real or true it is, if it is not expressed well, it’s a lie. The expression itself communicates to truth. In other words, communication is limited by perspective, we cannot say we know, yet we have not been communicated. Communication, when properly expressed introduces us to reality and truth. This is what John Frame asserts when discusses the matter of Perspective.

Frame states the following on perspective, “it is a view of something, by someone from somewhere. Literally is a position from which a person sees something.” That is to say, the world I see around me now, as I am writing this paper, as I am typing on my laptop, is a perspective to me. This perspective is only limited to me. You, however who is reading this paper on my blog, while having your world around you, that is your perspective. The perspective you have, that I have, is limited to the communication either you or I will reveal. Frame is therefore correct is his definition of perspective, but Frame does one better, by introducing God’s perspective.

Frame asserts that while, we have the current perspective around us, God on the other hand has perspective of every point. Frame points out

“He sees all from every possible perspective. He sees the sparrow from behind its head as well as in front of its face. And he sees my hair from its follicle to its ever decreasing pigment. He sees it from his omniscient divine perspective, but he also understands fully how my wife experiences my hair. And he is able to see it as anyone else sees it, from every possible vantage point. He knows what the sparrow looks like to another sparrow, or to the hawk soaring overhead. He sees my hair from vantage point of the fly on the wall, He even knows perspectives that are merely possible: he knows what my hair would look like from the vantage point of a fly on the wall, even when there is no fly on my wall. So God is not only omniscient but omniperspectival.”

There is much I would discuss on the statement made by Frame in the above. Especially the statement on “perspectives that are merely possible” which speaks to realities that do not exist to humanity, but exist to God, all because he sees them all. However, for the purpose of this paper, I would rather concentrate on “But he also understands” Frame makes a powerful statement here, that God not only sees all perspectives, but understands them. That is too say, God is always relational involve with his creation. Understanding is not without relating. Yet this relating is not just extensional knowledge, but personal knowledge. Knowledge that includes feelings, thought, expression and sensory attributes. God being this relational to us, emphasis the point of communication.

God, in being Omniperspectival, is able to communicate to humanity in the best method and way. God is not in any way limited by perspective, because in his truth he is present to all perspectives of the cosmos, therefore communication is properly received from God. The question must be asked, what then is God communicating in your world and in our world? what is God trying to communicate? I would suggest, under John Frame’s assertions of God’s perspective, that God is trying to communicate God in the world. In other words, God has communicated and is still communicating Jesus in humanity. Jesus is by in large, the world’s best method of communication. The communication God has given us in Jesus, points to how limited our perspective had always been, but Jesus sought to introduce a new perspective in all the world. A perspective that would point us to divine reality.

Every communication has a message or language, the language and the message are critical to the expression of the communication. Our communication can only be effective, if we understand the language or the message. The message or the language Jesus was communicating was love. Love becomes the reality of communication; love becomes the reality of the perspective we are being introduced too. Love is not only between us and God, but also between amongst ourselves. Amongst ourselves, love opens what was limited perspective, to become an unlimited perspective, because we carry the language of the communication.

Yet, language and message, are something that are relative. The communication is an absolute reference, however the language or message is relative, because interpretation is part of message deciphering. How then important is it to know the perspective of the Jesus, because should we not know it, then we interpret the message wrongly, once that is done even then among ourselves, we could never relate to one another. Even among ourselves we could not know how to love each other, we would always be closed off to the perspective of the other. We wouldn’t be able to communicate the message properly. When I say “I love you” what would it mean? The words of Stephen Fry, “A true thing, poorly expressed is a lie”.  

[chrismcguire-blog]

When the footnotes alone in a book cause you to have lots of coffee #comprehensive #johnframe #apologetics #tothegloryofGod #Dublin #coffee #cupstacks (at Starbucks Blanchardstown S.C)