Arphaxad12
BIBLE TECHNICIAN
Hello Hentenza!
Really cute kids in your avatar! Thanks again for writing. You wrote: "What universalists fail to understand is that the promise of atonement is for all but applied to those who believe. It is conditional not unconditional otherwise Jesus did not need to die for our sins since God being ominiscient already would have made the salvation of all for all from the beginning of time. The universalism evidence crumbles under its own weight." (end quote).
I think you have me confused with a Universalist. By that I mean that although I'm not very "up" on these various "isms," my scant understanding of Universalism is that it espouses the idea that all will be automatically saved regardless of their agreement or desire to receive salvation.
Nothing could be father from the truth. Anyone receiving "the washing of regeneration" will FIRST, through the enlightenment and drawing power of the Holy Spirit, have to acknowkedge their spiritually dead, God-hating, self dependent, lost condition in the lineage of first Adam, and ask, or at least agree, to the Lord's offer of permanent spiritual adoption into the living glorious lineage of the Last Adam, a new creature, alive unto God, with the spirit of Christ within.
Man's God-enlightened agreement is absolutely essential to receiving "the First resurrection" (new birth) offered by the Lord.
As for "post-mortem" salvation: Please note that all the folks Jesus raised from the dead in His Earthly ministry (Lazarus-Mary's brother, Jairus' daughter, the widoiw of Nain's son, and even all those in the entire bible whom the Lord restored back to their earthly life), all had to die TWICE, and moreover they all inadvertently had a second chance to exercise faith in God and receive their salvation even after they had already died once.
And we all know that the Lord is no respecter of persons. Hence what He has done for one He will most certainly do for all. So we can safely conclude that bodily death is not the end of all opportunity to receive "the washing of regeneration."
Please correct me if I'm wrong, butI don't think I'm a Universalist in the true sense of the word. But I really don't know.
Best Blessings,
"Arph"
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P.S Heb 9:27 "It is appointed unto men once to die."
Really cute kids in your avatar! Thanks again for writing. You wrote: "What universalists fail to understand is that the promise of atonement is for all but applied to those who believe. It is conditional not unconditional otherwise Jesus did not need to die for our sins since God being ominiscient already would have made the salvation of all for all from the beginning of time. The universalism evidence crumbles under its own weight." (end quote).
I think you have me confused with a Universalist. By that I mean that although I'm not very "up" on these various "isms," my scant understanding of Universalism is that it espouses the idea that all will be automatically saved regardless of their agreement or desire to receive salvation.
Nothing could be father from the truth. Anyone receiving "the washing of regeneration" will FIRST, through the enlightenment and drawing power of the Holy Spirit, have to acknowkedge their spiritually dead, God-hating, self dependent, lost condition in the lineage of first Adam, and ask, or at least agree, to the Lord's offer of permanent spiritual adoption into the living glorious lineage of the Last Adam, a new creature, alive unto God, with the spirit of Christ within.
Man's God-enlightened agreement is absolutely essential to receiving "the First resurrection" (new birth) offered by the Lord.
As for "post-mortem" salvation: Please note that all the folks Jesus raised from the dead in His Earthly ministry (Lazarus-Mary's brother, Jairus' daughter, the widoiw of Nain's son, and even all those in the entire bible whom the Lord restored back to their earthly life), all had to die TWICE, and moreover they all inadvertently had a second chance to exercise faith in God and receive their salvation even after they had already died once.
And we all know that the Lord is no respecter of persons. Hence what He has done for one He will most certainly do for all. So we can safely conclude that bodily death is not the end of all opportunity to receive "the washing of regeneration."
Please correct me if I'm wrong, butI don't think I'm a Universalist in the true sense of the word. But I really don't know.
Best Blessings,
"Arph"
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P.S Heb 9:27 "It is appointed unto men once to die."
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