Subject: Is there any practical difference? |
Bible Note: Thes are indeed good questions. Let me take a couple in the brief time I have right this second. 1. My personal relationship to God? He is my adopted Father, and also my Lord. This is solely on the basis of His mercy toward me, and in no way based on any clever decision on my part to "accept Him." He changed my wicked disposition, despite the fact that I didn't deserve it in the slightest, and he is the one who preserves my reconciled state with Him. In other words, Christ is the Author and Perfecter of my faith. In addition, there is the core idea that I was chosen by God for a purpose beyond my own going to Heaven. 2. Accepted? I don't see much difference here between C and A here. We are both accepted solely on the basis of Christ's subsitutionary death and resurrection. More later... |