So, when God put Adam and Eve out of the garden, that was part of the all he did for them. What part?If by "process" you mean "eternal salvation" then the answer to this is that God did do it all for Adam and Eve.
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enegue
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So, when God put Adam and Eve out of the garden, that was part of the all he did for them. What part?If by "process" you mean "eternal salvation" then the answer to this is that God did do it all for Adam and Eve.
Reformationist said:Perhaps. In that case, I'll take your thinly veiled derision for what it is and move on to more productive dicussion.
Reformationist said:Okay. That is certainly your perrogative.
i can give you the scripture if you prefer!
Man centered doctrine is not the revelation of God so this claim, though possibly true, is not applicable.
I think that was my point. God does give by revelation.
I am well aware of what saving faith is.
If you knew the objective of faith, you could answer that.
No clue what you mean here, nor does it sound like anything we were disagreeing about.
the objective of faith is to inherit the promises of God.
Faith must be applied according to knowledge.
Why assure me? Shall I make you stand or fall?
Is your cup full?
Never claimed that mental assent was salvation so, once again, I fail to see your point.
I can see that.
I'll do my best but, please understand that I am not going to just take what you say as the Gospel. You'll need to qualify it with biblical support.
God forbid, I don't expect you to and if you didn't I'd be wasting my time. I can give it. It's not about me I promise. YOU might want to verify before you post.
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Reformationist said:Two things. First, "the Cross" was God's work, not man's. My statement regarding man's passivity in his eternal salvation dealt with his role in his eternal salvation. Secondly, I mentioned the work of God in the Atonement:
andy153 said:It was by the works of one man that sin and death entered the world and it is by the works of one man that we are saved (Jesus Christ)
Romans:18 Therefore as by the offence of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life. 19 For as by one mans disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.
If God alone is responsible for the salvation of man, then God alone must have been responsible for the events contributing to the fall of Adam.
with love and respect, Andy153
msortwell said:In the fall, it was the transgression of one man that brought humanity into spiritual death.
Still, it was because of God that the sin of this one man was imputed to all men. The transgression of the one led directly to the spiritual death of his descendents. God had sovereignly established an order wherein the sin of a federal head is imputed to his prodgeny (Rom 5:18a).
In the means of redemption, it was the obedience and death of one man (one man-God) that afforded men spiritual life and redemption.
Apparently because of the same spiritual principle, that attributed the sin of Adam to all men born of men, God ordained that the righteousness (the life of Christ) of a federal head would be imputed to his prodgeny and the atonement made (the death of Christ) by that same federal head could be attributed to the account of his prodgeny. (Rom 5:18b).
The work on the cross was a synergistic work of God the Father and God the Son. For God's principle of imputation to be upheld the Son of God had to be also a man, a new federal head in order for men to receive his rightousness via imputation.
The work on the cross was the work of God and a God-man. I know I had no positive contribution to make.
"The work" of the fall, broadly speaking was also the work of God and man. God established His covenant and the consequences of it's violation. Man, in the form of Adam, free of any influence of a sin-nature, perceived that which he could obtain through disobedience and willingly opted for that which he could obtain, despite the admonition from his creator. God sovereignly created a man that would surely sin, and sin of his own unobstructed volition, and thus died the freest will of any man to walk the earth except for the God-man, Christ Jesus.
enegue said:So, when God put Adam and Eve out of the garden, that was part of the all he did for them. What part?
Cheers,
enegue
depthdeception said:As typical, you casually avoid answering questions which do not fit your agenda.
stabalizer said:i can give you the scripture if you prefer!
If you knew the objective of faith, you could answer that.
the objective of faith is to inherit the promises of God.
Faith must be applied according to knowledge.
Is your cup full?
I can see that.
God forbid, I don't expect you to and if you didn't I'd be wasting my time. I can give it. It's not about me I promise. YOU might want to verify before you post.
You might want to open your heart to gleaning from scripture and God's creation.
Just because a man spoke it it doesn't make it evil nor incorrect.
Do you need to be synical to elevate your good standing in this forum?
Grow up, learn be merciful. clarify your disagreements a little better, in a polite way, I have time to clarify myself and edify you as well as others.
receive this in the kindness with which it is spoken.
Reformationist said:Andy, do you believe in the divinity of Christ??
enegue said:Rephrase:
What part did the expulsion of Adam and Eve from paradise have to play in God's plan of salvation?
Why was it necessary?
andy153 said:I believe that Jesus Christ is precisely who he claimed to be; the son of man.
As divine means..... Of, Form, Like God, or a God then yes I believe in Christs divinity.
with love and respect, andy153
andy153 said:I disagree, scripture says that because of the sin of one man sin entered the world. It dosen't say because of the sin of one man sin entered every man.
andy153 said:I believe that we are accountable only for our own sin and not for Adam's transgression.
Romans 5:14 Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adams transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come.
andy153 said:I don't believe that Jesus was a hybrid creature, I believe he was a man.
andy153 said:If all are made sinners by Adams transgression then all must be made righteous by Christs sacrifice. Is this what you are meaning here ? If all are not made righteous by Christs atonement then all are not made sinners by Adam's transgression.
andy153 said:Did Noah make a positive contribution to his salvation ?
andy153 said:I disagree with your diagnosis re Adam. Adam transgressed to save the bride (Eve) who would have been lost forever without the seed that only Adam could give her.
Your answer to your own question is simply wild conjecture. Conjecture is not in-and-of-itself is not a problem, if it can be validated with the text of Holy Writ. However, your answer stands unsubstantiated. God, in His Word provided, as Reformationist pointed out, an explicit answer to the question posed. The fully adequate answer provided by the Creator was so that man, [in his fallen condition], did not live forever.enegue said:Hi Reformationist,
Well, it's fine as far as it goes, but you aren't addressing the why. Why was it necessary to make man aware of his dependance upon God? Why was it necessary to make man toil outside the garden when God had already determined that this should be his occupation within the garden?
And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.Isn't is obvious that these things were allowed to occur because they would provide a means of allowing Adam and Eve to compare their experience inside the garden, with their experience outside the garden. They would then be able to *choose* one of two responses, "We have sinned against the Lord God, and our current situation is the consequence of our disobedience. Forgive us for what we have done." or "Why have you punished us so harshly for such a minor infraction? After all, we were deceived by the serpent. Why didn't you just deal with him? We only exercised the faculties you gave us. If you didn't want us to use them, why did you give them to us in the first place?"
-- Genesis 2:15
God was not going to make the choices for his children. They, and all men to this day have to *choose* - do I want to dwell with God?
Why did God wait 1500 years or so before he brought the flood?
Cheers,
enegue
Reformationist said:Think what you will dd. I don't feel the need to defend myself to you any longer.
depthdeception said:Well, unless you wish to say that the eternal God died, then yes I am being serious. Of course, if you do wish to say that the eternal God died on the cross, you would be speaking heresy.
Are you denying that Christ was human?
depthdeception said:Interesting. Few others on the myriad threads in which I participate have this difficulty. Perhaps the crux of the issue lies somewhere else...