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According to Socrates in his dialogue "Gorgias," God's retribution is the means of salvation. Thus, there is no salvation for those who escape from the wrath of God. Those who, by faith, are washed in the blood of Christ for the forgiveness of sins shall be damned.
Socrates tells us that God's vengeance is a retribution of good for evil. "Justice punishes us, and makes us more just, and is the medicine of our vice." "The unjust or doer of unjust actions is more miserable if he be not punished and does not meet with retribution, and less miserable if he be punished and meets with retribution at the hands of gods and men." Socrates, Gorgias.
Gorgias - Wikisource, the free online library
But the Bible says that God's retribution brings death rather than life. And God's forebearance brings life rather than death: "Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but whoever rejects the Son will not see life, for God's wrath remains on him." John 3:36. "You turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God, and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead—Jesus, who rescues us from the coming wrath." 1 Thessalonians 1:9-10. The Bible says that in return for evil, God brings evil rather than good upon the wrongdoer: "The LORD will bring on you all the evil he has threatened, until he has destroyed you." Joshua 23:15.
If Socrates is correct, and if Christians somehow manage to avoid Yahweh's reckoning by pleading the blood of Jesus, then how shall Christians be saved? But if the Bible is right, and if God's wrath is not the Balm that Socrates waits for, then how shall Socrates and other deluded Pagans be saved?
Here is an image of the Passover Angel from the Book of Exodus.
Socrates tells us that God's vengeance is a retribution of good for evil. "Justice punishes us, and makes us more just, and is the medicine of our vice." "The unjust or doer of unjust actions is more miserable if he be not punished and does not meet with retribution, and less miserable if he be punished and meets with retribution at the hands of gods and men." Socrates, Gorgias.
Gorgias - Wikisource, the free online library
But the Bible says that God's retribution brings death rather than life. And God's forebearance brings life rather than death: "Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but whoever rejects the Son will not see life, for God's wrath remains on him." John 3:36. "You turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God, and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead—Jesus, who rescues us from the coming wrath." 1 Thessalonians 1:9-10. The Bible says that in return for evil, God brings evil rather than good upon the wrongdoer: "The LORD will bring on you all the evil he has threatened, until he has destroyed you." Joshua 23:15.
If Socrates is correct, and if Christians somehow manage to avoid Yahweh's reckoning by pleading the blood of Jesus, then how shall Christians be saved? But if the Bible is right, and if God's wrath is not the Balm that Socrates waits for, then how shall Socrates and other deluded Pagans be saved?
Here is an image of the Passover Angel from the Book of Exodus.
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