This is related to the "can we loose our salvation" thread but I thought it is enough different to start a new thread. That one was getting too long anyway.
I love these deeper discussions they make me dig deep and in doing so I find even deeper stuff. I love it.
Well the question has been asked about being blotted out of the book of life and it is a good one. I believe Exod . 32:33 was quoted but we need to go back to verse 31 to get a better idea.
Exod 32:31-33
31 And Moses returned unto the LORD, and said, Oh, this people have sinned a great sin, and have made them gods of gold.
32 Yet now, if thou wilt forgive their sin--; and if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book which thou hast written.
33 And the LORD said unto Moses, Whosoever hath sinned against me, him will I blot out of my book.
(KJV)
Is Moses saying he wanted to be blotted out of the book of life and go to hell if God did not forgive their sins? What book is Moses and God talking about? Well here is the same scene as looked at from
Deut 9:14
14 Let me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from under heaven: and I will make of thee a nation mightier and greater than they.
(KJV)
It seems he is talking about death. The term under heaven' is always talking about this world. Just look at Ecclesiastes. The book is probably the register of the Jews and geneologies. I will bow to Jamison Fausset and Brown on this one.
Exodus 32:30-33
Verse 32. [Blot me out of thy book which thou hast written.] In the public registers, all that were born of a particular tribe were entered in the list of their respective families under that tribe. This was the Israelite Domesday book, or genealogical record; and when any one died his name might be considered as blotted out of this list.
(from Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown Commentary)
Is the unrighteous ever written in "the book of life"
Now this verse sheds a little light on that.
Ps 69:27-28
27 Add iniquity unto their iniquity: and let them not come into thy righteousness.
28 Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not be written with the righteous.
(KJV)
God has a book of the living. If you are alive or have been alive you are in this book. These people the Psalmist is talking about were in the book with the righteous but were never righteous. I will end with this thought. If you die in your sins you are blotted out of the Book of life. You don't get blotted out, written in, blotted out again, etc.
Please tell me what you think of these verses. Thank you.