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1 | How can anyone be saved? | 1 Cor 2:14 | Lionstrong | 60927 | ||
Hi Ed, 2 Cor 5:10, "For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may be recompensed for his deeds in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad." This is the purpose of judgment. One thing my freewilling brothers in Christ have to understand is that responsibility, and hence the judgment, is not based on volition, but on knowledge. Rom 1:21-24, "For even though they knew God, they did not honor Him as God or give thanks.... Therefore God gave them over..." Luke 12:47,48 "And that slave who knew his master's will and did not get ready or act in accord with his will, will receive many lashes, but the one who did not know it, and committed deeds worthy of a flogging, will receive but few. From everyone who has been given much, much will be required; and to whom they entrusted much, of him they will ask all the more." As the image of God we are rational and have innate knowledge, that is, knowledge not learned by experience, but by virtue of being the image of God. (Gen. 1; Rom 2) We knowingly transgress or fail to conform to God's law. Animals cannot sin because they have no rational knowledge even if they have wills. Another thing believers need to understand is the federal headship of Adam (Rom 5). He is the head and representative of the human race descended from him by natural generation. When our head fell, we all fell. When he became a sinner, we all did. When he sinned, we sinned in him. In Adam all die. (1 Cor 15:22, "For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive.") Christ is the head of redeemed humanity, and what he is and did counts for them. "Man cannot do anything about that sin unless God so moves, then when God does so move man has to accept Jesus and be forgiven of that sin." This is basically the same question Paul has his reader ask: Rom 9:19-24, "You will say to me then, "Why does He still find fault? For who resists His will?" On the contrary, who are you, O man, who answers back to God? The thing molded will not say to the molder, "Why did you make me like this," will it? Or does not the potter have a right over the clay, to make from the same lump one vessel for honorable use and another for common use? What if God, although willing to demonstrate His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction? And He did so to make known the riches of His glory upon vessels of mercy, which He prepared beforehand for glory, even us, whom He also called, not from among Jews only, but also from among Gentiles." How can a sinner believe, unless God, by His Spirit, changes his heart? Peace, |
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2 | How can anyone be saved? | 1 Cor 2:14 | Sir Pent | 60951 | ||
Personal Note .......................................... Lionstrong my friend, It is good to be in a thread together after so long. I'm really glad that you wrote this post, not that I agree with much of it, but after all these months I finally understand why you started that whole discussion we once had on the "rationality of animals" :) |
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