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1 | Will unbelievers be raised from Sheol? | Rev 21:8 | Hank | 31798 | ||
The Bible teaches clearly that Christ is himself "very God of very God" and therefore one's belief in God the Father must encompass the belief that God revealed himself in the form of the Messiah, Jesus Christ. The two Persons of the Godhead, together with the Holy Spirit, are so inextricably inter-related that belief in one must embody the belief in all three. Thus, from the Christian perspective, anyone who professes belief in God the Father while denying the Son or the Holy Spirit, in fact denies them all. Ed, this is a circuitous path that leads me to say that I agree with you! --Hank | ||||||
2 | Will unbelievers be raised from Sheol? | Rev 21:8 | Curtnsally | 31807 | ||
Hank Thanks for your note, and kind comment. I think we (you/me/Ed) are on the same page, and I don't disagree with your last comment about the inseparability of the Trinity. One could reverse your theory, though, by saying that belief in any part of the Trinity constitutes a belief in all (particularly if there is no knowledge of the Trinity). I wonder if the real question is whether or not God reveals the nature of the Trinity to every person... of just the existence of God??? Of course, we're treading on the end of the speculation continuum when we get this far out! Clearly anyone who denies Christ or the Holy Spirit denies God. But for the ignorant heathen who has no knowledge of the Trinity, or for the person who lived in OT times before the revelation of Jesus and the Holy Spirit, is not faith in the One God sufficient? Scripture, I believe, says yes. I'm not a universalist nor unitarian, believe me, but I do believe Scripture leaves room for God to save whom He chooses. We just can't comprehend His maginitude. Being a good Presbyterian, we could really juice up the discussion by weighing the Scriptures on "free will" versus "election" ... Cheers! Curt |
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3 | Will unbelievers be raised from Sheol? | Rev 21:8 | Hank | 31811 | ||
Curtnsally, I fully recognize that you are new to the forum and thus may be (blissfully, may I say?) unaware that the issue of election vs. free will has been, as you put it, "juiced up" already to such a magnitude that the juice therof nearly drowned us all at one point, and we flounder still in the somewhat subsiding flow. Had you been around during the peak of the storm, you might have thought, as some of us did, that it was a re-enactment of Noah's flood and the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah blended into one epic drama :-) --Hank | ||||||