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NASB | Romans 5:6 ¶ For while we were still helpless, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Romans 5:6 ¶ While we were still helpless [powerless to provide for our salvation], at the right time Christ died [as a substitute] for the ungodly. |
Subject: Not my will? |
Bible Note: Dear Mel, Why is your name in the book of life? It is God's sovereign grace only and His choice only. This is completely unrelated to anything ing us as the recipients. By that I mean it is completely unrelated to anything we have done, nor anything about us at all. Your explanation of predestination doesn't explain any part of predestination at all. Or at least not something that needed inspired writers of scripture to spend time writing about. Your interpretation makes the texts that specifically reveal predestination effectively renders them needless. If they don't teach specific election, they they tell believers about the salvation they already knew about. Run this test by your approach... if your interpretation is right --why do we even have these texts (eg. Eph 1, 1Pet 1, Rom 8 ) of scripture? If they were omitted from the letters it wouldn't change our understanding of salvation if they really mean what you say. Predestined means much more than to live with me for eternity! And besides it is particularly redundant to tell believers things they already knew! Here's the million dollar question -- who is the first cause of the salvation event in your model, God or man? ... really I mean it, answer the question. Now by way of contrast who is the first cause in my model? I'll answer the question it is God! Does anybody really think it less than absurd to have man be the first cause of an event? By definition God is the first cause! that's what makes Him God! If we ever reason for man as the first cause, we have just reasoned for an uncause event (in other words it didn't happen if God isn't the first cause). |