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Subject: What is the Bible's take on sacriments? |
Bible Note: You wrote: "What I?m saying is God in his holiness, justice, and love for us could have made anything the ransom for sin" Paul wrote: "I do not nullify the grace of God, for if righteousness comes through the Law, then Christ died needlessly." --Galatians 2:21 Christ NEEDED to die. "For what the Law could not do, weak as it was through the flesh, God did: sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and as an offering for sin, He condemned sin in the flesh" --Romans 8:3 "Is the Law then contrary to the promises of God? May it never be! For if a law had been given which was able to impart life, then righteousness would indeed have been based on law." --Galatians 3:21 The bottom line of your position is that ultimately, Jesus Christ, the holy Son of God, did not have to die for our redemption. Out of a myriad of possibilities that God could have chosen (including painless ones), He sends one who shares His essence with Himself to die an undeserved death, when it all could have been avoided by God saying anything else (or nothing else, as indicated in your last concrete example) could serve as the ground of our justification? It just doesn't wash. And Martin Luther agreed: "Among the distinguished teachers there are some who say that forgiveness of sins and the justification by grace consists entirely of divine imputation, that is in God's accounting it sufficient that he whom he reckons or does not reckon sin is justified or not justified for his sins by this...If this were true, the whole New Testament would be nothing and in vain. And Christ would have labored foolishly and uselessly by suffering for sin." That's basically all I have to say on this matter. You are surprised that I am allegedly limiting God by saying His justice is not trumped by His freedom. I am shocked that you believe God chose what is undoubtedly the most horrific act in the history of the universe as the ground for reconciling us to Himself when He didn't have to. --Joe! |