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Subject: What is the Bible's take on sacriments? |
Bible Note: Joe I'm sorry if what I said implied to you that God just came up with good ideas and then did them, thus establishing a new truth. What I meant to say and I think I did say that since God is just, and as he reveals His attributes of justice they become the definition of justice to us. Can we say with any certainty that, that unveiling is complete? No, unless we believe the finite can define the infinite. You said, “And this is the heart of our disagreement. You say the just status of God's decrees is determined by him declaring them just. You separate the act from any innate attribute of God. According to you, God could have declared absolutely ANYTHING to be just satisfaction, whether that satisfaction actually cost anyone anything or not.” First I did not separate them from the innate attributes of God. I on three different occasions have made that connection. What I’m saying is God in his holiness, justice, and love for us could have made anything the ransom for sin. Since we sin against Him and to Him the debt is owed, can He not set the price that must be paid? You implied satisfaction must cost somebody (last sentence in the above paragraph) Again you applying sound human logic based on what God has reveal of his nature of Justice. However suppose all God choose to reveal of His nature in satisfaction of justice was the need for repentance. Would that not have become the price for our sin? Yes of course it would and we would see it as justice. We owed a debt we could not pay, He paid a debt He did not owe. Tears at the very fabric of human logic yet we know now that is yet another attribute that God revealed of his nature. This revealing of God’s nature enabled the satisfaction for our sin to be paid by another upon the cross. I think you suppose too much and to my surprise seem to limit God far more than I would have ever imagined. But I believe the limit you impose on God are just boundaries that he established out of his nature. I just happen to believe those boundaries will expand rapidly when we come into perfection and can begin to truly comprehend the awesomeness of God. Be blessed my friend Ed |