Subject: Inability? |
Bible Note: New Creature: I say amen to, I applaud, and I totally agree without reservation with your response that God never commands His creatures to do anything unless He enables them to do it. To believe otherwise is contrary to what the Bible teaches on the nature and attributes of God and re-images the holy, loving and righteous God into an unthinkably hideous monster. Would any loving parent ever dream of threatening his infant child with severe corporeal punishment, even death itself, unless that little baby stood up and recited Lincoln's Gettysburg Address? Does God command all men everywhere to repent (Acts 17:30) while at the same time making it impossible for all but a chosen few of them to do so? And does He then condemn to eternal hell those from whom He has withheld the "ability" to obey Christ's command to "repent and believe in the gospel"? (Mark 1:15) Everyone who does not "repent and believe in the gospel" is hell bound to be sure. But are they hell bound because God has not given them the "ability" to do what He says do, or is it because they themselves chose to disobey a command that they clearly had the ability to obey? --Hank |