The big picture!

Get this and get it "good"! P. Nellas in Deification In Christ,
says: because of Christ "sin can be transcended in an ocean of
divine love, thereby proving that the great tragedy of the fall
is only a small incident in time." I confess that a few years
ago I would have written this thought off as some kind of liberal
sentimentalism. My evangelical upbringing impressed on my mind
the centrality of the fall, Satan, sin, the wrath of God, atonement,
crucifixion, death and hell. Salvation was about repentance and how
to escape this monstrous reality. In the light of all that, love
while "lovely", tended to take on the aspect of something weak by
comparison. Obviously, I failed to realize two things: 1. What's
"weakness" to the world is, in fact, the "power" of God! and 2. I,
as many others, did not really understand the meaning of love. While
railing against Hollywood romanticism I was still missing the main
point. Yes, Nellas calls it a "great tragedy",and it is- but it's
still "only a small incident in time." Time stops! Eternity is
forever!And here's the main point: sin is nothing compared to God's
love!! It's not that we didn't "know" these things,but the power of
evil and sin distorted our emphasis.