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1 | How can anyone be saved? | 1 Cor 2:14 | John Reformed | 61248 | ||
Hello again Hank, Lionstrong offered the Following analogy. "I’m free to take a privately charted luxury liner around the world, but my small financial reserves makes me unable to do so. Fallen man’s moral capital is less than small; it is non-existent! He is morally bankrupt! While free, he has no moral capital to invest a faith commitment in Christ." While it may have been helpfull it was flawed. You pointed out the flaw in your reply. "Your luxury cruise analogy is more an example of freedom you are free to take the trip. However if you never have the funds available you never had a choice whether to take the trip of not. The lack of funds negated any such choice" I would have stated the analogy somewhat differently. I’m free to take a privately charted luxury liner around the world, but I hate to travel by water. I would rather die than go aboard a ship! Fallen man’s nature forbids him from choosing that which he hates which is serving Christ! He does have an option, but it is one he considers foolish and he can't undrstand why anyone would opt for it.(1 Cor 2:14) Lionstrong was correct in pointing out that it is the moral bankruptcy of the the human heart that disables fallen man. It is not the lack of a choice but the lack of any desire for the RIGHT choice that is the curse of God on the sons of Adam. ...for on that day you will surely die.(Gen 2:17) Dead means dead. It does not mean seriously sick. John |
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2 | How can anyone be saved? | 1 Cor 2:14 | Lionstrong | 61308 | ||
Hi John, You need not answer this, but by freedom I meant that no external force hindered, limited or coerced my choice. In that sense I was free. My choices were limit only by internal factors, in this case, my insufficient funds. This I likened to fallen man. It is not God, man, Satan, what he ate for breakfast or any other external force that causes a man to reject Christ. In this sense he his free. The cause is his own insufficient moral capital. Peace, |
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