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NASB | Ephesians 1:5 He predestined us to adoption as sons through Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the kind intention of His will, |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Ephesians 1:5 He predestined and lovingly planned for us to be adopted to Himself as [His own] children through Jesus Christ, in accordance with the kind intention and good pleasure of His will-- |
Subject: Die unexposed to Jesus no redemption? |
Bible Note: Hello Azure, That is very interesting. I guess I'm not a real thrill-seeker by worldly standards, because thats the kind of stuff that is thrilling to me, and really perks up my interest. You said, "God has used His own way to reveal Himself to different nations in the ancient time." that really got me to thinking. Then I remembered someone talking about the numerous times that we find in the ancient history of many cultures around the world, there is a story of a great flood. Now we know that these stories must have come from word of mouth and from the time of the actual flood, Noah's flood that is. But the world would of course explain it away, as just the universally connected Imagination of man, or some such nonsense like that. Anyway, I then remembered Something I learned from (Thru the Bible Radio) Dr. Mcgee was talking about that very same thing, and how through Noah's sons, Shem and Ham and Japheth, the Gospel or at least parts of it were spread throughout the whole world. And, I'm pretty sure he even mentioned that same thing that you did about the chinese word for sacrifice, and, that the further the gospel got from its true source, the more perverted it got. Anyway, just a few things to chew on. Here are some scriptures that will show support for this view. Gen 8:20 Then Noah built an altar to the LORD, and took of every clean animal and of every clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar. Gen 9:1 And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth. Gen 9:18 Now the sons of Noah who came out of the ark were Shem and Ham and Japheth; and Ham was the father of Canaan. Gen 9:19 These three were the sons of Noah, and from these the whole earth was populated. Gen 10:32 These are the families of the sons of Noah, according to their genealogies, by their nations; and out of these the nations were separated on the earth after the flood. 1 Pet 3:15-20 but sanctify Christ as Lord in your hearts, always being ready to make a defense to everyone who asks you to give an account for the hope that is in you, yet with gentleness and reverence; and keep a good conscience so that in the thing in which you are slandered, those who revile your good behavior in Christ will be put to shame. For it is better, if God should will it so, that you suffer for doing what is right rather than for doing what is wrong. For Christ also died for sins once for all, the just for the unjust, so that He might bring us to God, having been put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit; (in which also He went and made proclamation to the spirits now in prison, who once were disobedient, when the patience of God kept waiting in the days of Noah, during the construction of the ark, in which a few, that is, eight persons, were brought safely through the water.) Noah, according to 1Peter, must have been preaching the Gospel of salvation wile he was building the ark. See how the ancients could have known the Gospel of the Kinsmen redeemer, and the sacrifice of the Lamb? Thank's Azure. God bless. John |