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NASB | Ephesians 3:6 to be specific, that the Gentiles are fellow heirs and fellow members of the body, and fellow partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus through the gospel, |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Ephesians 3:6 [it is this:] that the Gentiles are now joint heirs [with the Jews] and members of the same body, and joint partakers [sharing] in the [same divine] promise in Christ Jesus through [their faith in] the good news [of salvation]. |
Subject: Lionstrong, this is not universalism. |
Bible Note: Tim: I am not supralapsarian. For those reading who aren't familiar with this term, supralapsarianism holds that: 1. God, out of his own wise counsel, elected a specific group of individuals to eternal life, not based on any merit or inherent superiority of those individuals (Ephesians 1:11 -- a view held by all who called themselves Reformed) 2. God out of His own wise counsel, elected the rest of humanity to reprobation (i.e. Hell), before taking into account the Fall. In other words, God is ACTIVE in keeping the non-elect out of Heaven. I do not hold to supralapsarianism, because the main idea behind it is that men are damned based on God's wise counsel rather than on their inherent sinfulness. Humans do not go to Hell because God didn't choose them. Humans go to Hell because they are by nature children of wrath who rebel against a holy God. Therefore, I lean toward infralapsarianism, which holds that our condemnation was justly earned by humanity (although foreknown and permitted by God), while salvation is for those whom he chose to rescue out of the position that we were in. The "default position" is condemnation for all of us; God just "flicks the switch" on the elect to salvation (to put it very crudely). --Joe! |