Jesus Humanity In Karl Barth's Scripture

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For Karl Barth, the actions that proclaimed through Jesus’ humanity in Scripture reflect the real revelation of God which is God’s love and relational quality. God reveals this through God’s self through the works that God did in Jesus, and there is no other way to see God then how God reveals Godself in the humanity of Jesus. To carry on social justice causes the church must affirm Jesus’ humanity as an expression of how humans should deal with one another. Since God’s action shows the love and relational qualities of God through the revealing of the humanity of Jesus, the Church needs to witness God’s attributes within social justice. For Karl Barth: “…this righteousness belongs most basically to Christ, who is the principle subject of electing

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