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1 | What is the Bible's take on sacriments? | Acts 13:38 | Reformer Joe | 68395 | ||
"God did not have to take on flesh (physical matter) to heal us save us, but He did." How else could He have saved us? --Joe! |
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2 | What is the Bible's take on sacriments? | Acts 13:38 | Emmaus | 68410 | ||
Joe, "How else could He have saved us?" I am shocked that an adherent of God's absolute soverignty would ask such a question. God did not have to save us at all and could have saved us in any manner He willed. Are you saying that He did it by means of the Incarnation because He had to do it in then manner? Emmaus |
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3 | What is the Bible's take on sacriments? | Acts 13:38 | Reformer Joe | 68415 | ||
"I am shocked that an adherent of God's absolute soverignty would ask such a question." Well, that's me -- shocking! :) "God did not have to save us at all..." True enough. "...and could have saved us in any manner He willed." Well, any manner that wouldn't have compromised His infinite, eternal, and unchangeable justice. If He is to be merciful, He will not violate His own nature in doing so. So I repeat my question again: how else could He have saved us? "Are you saying that He did it by means of the Incarnation because He had to do it in then manner?" I am saying what the Bible says: "for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, being justified as a gift by His grace through the redemption which is in Christ Jesus; whom God displayed publicly as a propitiation in His blood through faith. This was to demonstrate His righteousness, because in the forbearance of God He passed over the sins previously committed; for the demonstration, I say, of His righteousness at the present time, ***so that He would be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus***." --Romans 3:23-26 --Joe! |
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4 | What is the Bible's take on sacriments? | Acts 13:38 | Emmaus | 68418 | ||
Joe, "So I repeat my question again: how else could He have saved us?" And I repeat my answer: any way He willed. For me to suggest any other particular manner would in itself be a pointless attempt to limit God. We know what He willed, but that does not mean God could not have willed another manner that would have satisfied Himself in all His attributes. He is the absolute arbiter of that and we do not need to understand or agree. How He willed it to happen is a moot point. I think it is presumptuous to pretend that we understand God's options and their limitations because of our understanding by revelation of how He chose to act in relation to us. There is a lot more we do not know about God than we do know. Emmaus |
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5 | What is the Bible's take on sacriments? | Acts 13:38 | Hank | 68421 | ||
Emmaus, are you (and Joe) prepared for some deep theological insights from the Ozarks? Well, ready or not, here goes. When I was a boy I had this little puppy that wagged his tail incessantly and with such apparent glee that it gave me cause to wonder just why my little puppy wagged his tail so much. And so I carefully analyzed the phenomenon with my ten-year-old mental faculties and concluded that he did it for two reasons: because he could and because he wanted to. And now, more than a half century later, I have seen no reason to revise my analysis of puppy behavior. And when I think of the mighty acts of God that are revealed in the Bible and I start trying to analyze God by asking myself why God did this or did that, my mind goes back to the puppy of my childhood and why he wagged his tail. Perhaps God too does what He does because He can and because He wants to. That's as good a guess as ever I've read from the learned pages of any theologian. And I try to bear in mind every day of my life something Paul said to the Corinthians about seeing in our mirror dimly and what we know, we know only in part. [cf. 1 Cor.1:12]. Yes, Emmaus, you said a mouthful: it is presumptuous to pretend we understand all the options of the transcendent God. I'm still pondering -- and do not presume to understand -- the depth of His love for me that He showed by sending His only Son to save my sinful soul. --Hank | ||||||