“how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and power, and how he went around doing good and healing all who were under the power of the devil, because God was with him.”-Acts 10:38
“Since also God Himself remains blessed and immortal, neither molested nor molesting another, not in consequence of being by nature good, but in consequence of doing good in a manner peculiar to Himself. God, being essentially, and proving Himself, actually, both Father and good, continues immutably in the self-same goodness. For what is the use of good that does not act and do good?”-Clement of Alexandria, The Stromata, book VI, chapter XII
The more I think about it, the more Clement’s teaching of God’s divine benevolence fits nicely with the theme of Christus Victor atonement. I wonder what it would mean to view God’s context as being God’s own benevolence like some Womanist theologians argue? What difference what that make?
God is good. All. The. Time.
