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Is it the will of God...
Discussion in '2000-02 Archive' started by Joseph_Botwinick, Dec 25, 2002.
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No? Really? I must be badly mistaken about Calvinism, then. Can you please explain your answer?
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Helen,
The verse says "crucify again to themselves". So there must have been a first time of crucifying to themselves. -
No, again. It means that THIS time it is to themselves.
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The sentence structure won't bear your idea, Helen.
Why are kicking against the idea that your are responsible for the sin of crucifying Jesus? Do you just want to lay the blame on the Jews and the Romans around 30-33 A.D.? -
The revealed things belong to us; the secret things to God as the book of Deuteronomy said. You seem to portray the very attitude that Paul condemns in Romans 3, which was why I cited it to begin with. I anticipated your response, as did Paul, and with him, I say "May it never be." Do not question the righteousness of God because of your own inability to understand it. Rest on his word and his revelation of himself.
We have established that God ordains all things. Consider Psalm 139 where the Psalmist says that God ordained all his days when there was as yet not one of them. Do you not believe that pertains to the unborn whose days have not yet seen light though they are still humans? Surely you would not deny that. So Scripture affirms that God ordains the days, even those lives whose last day ends with their own slaughter in their mother's womb. I have no problem affirming that because Scripture clearly teaches it. I neither have a problem affirming that God holds all men responsible for their own sin because Scripture affirms it. Paul affirms that God is completely fair and just to do just that. Therefore, I affirm it.
I do not set up my own understanding as the touch stone upon which these issues must be decided. I think that is the fallacy you have entered into which such a proposition as you have put forth here.
Let us ask the question in another way: If you had lived in the first century, would it have been right for you to protest the murder of Jesus? A simple yes or no would be appropriate (in keeping with your own demands for this thread). -
Helen,
God is love.
God is merciful.
God is omipotent.
God is omniscient.
God is omnipresent.
God is good.
God is all wise.
God is holy.
God is sovereign.
God is righteous.
God is full of grace.
God is full of truth.
God is immutable.
God is full of joy.
God is kind.
God is forgiving.
God is invisible.
God is all glorious.
That's at least a pretty good start at understanding my foundation for believing the Bible. -
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He died for all of our sins. But that was HIS decision. He did not have to do it. He has taken responsibility for us. And that is the exact opposite of what you are trying to say about us taking responsibility for Him.
We have sinned. We have deserved death. However He CHOSE to love us and fix the situation. It was HIS decision in regard to our sins. Again, we are not necessary to Him. -
You are talking nonsense, Helen. You are saying that a man can be murdered and the man murdered is responsible for it.
I have other things to do on my day off from work so I will leave this discussion now.
Have a great end of the this year and a great beginning of the new year in the Lord, Helen, and you too, Joseph.
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Please do not equate the sacrifice of Christ with murders we perpetrate on each other. -
Let us ask the question in another way: If you had lived in the first century, would it have been right for you to protest the murder of Jesus? A simple yes or no would be appropriate (in keeping with your own demands for this thread).
OF COURSE it would have been right to protest it! However that would not have stopped it from happening. You see, protest would have been against the crucifixion, not against salvation. The fact that the two were necessarily connected did not seem to be in anyone's understanding at the time.
And no, we cannot go back in time with our present knowledge and pretend we would know better what to do or say... -
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Therefore, you believe it is right and Godly to protest the will of God. Correct?
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For the scripture saith unto Pharaoh, Even for this same purpose have I raised thee up, that I might shew my power in thee, and that my name might be declared throughout all the earth.
Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardeneth.
Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault? For who hath resisted his will?
Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?
Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?
What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction:
And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory... -
Was that an affirmative to my question?
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Pastork
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So, was that an affirmative answer to my question?
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Yes or no. Was that an affirmative. Let's not beat around the bush here. Let's just say what we really mean. I must've missed the question. OPerhaps you could repost it?
Joseph Botwinick
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