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Good question!!!What God wants, God gets. What your God wants is a construct of your mind, unless your God is everyone else's.
God is sovereign, so either God chooses who is saved or God doesn't. If God doesn't, God is not sovereign.
We assume God is sovereign. If God is sovereign, then God chooses all or some.
You, Clare, say that God chooses some. On what basis does God choose some?
Good question!!!
On his sovereign right and will to do so. . .and on nothing else (Romans 9:20-21),
just as he said of Jacob (Romans 9:11-12).
Can you reword that last sentence? Be more specific —for example are you saying that the Lord had two natures before he become man, i.e. as he was creating? If he waived his omniscience at that point, what are you implying?
He was both Soul and Deity in union
Before He came down from Heaven to make himself to become as a man?... Yes! The Lord God of Israel was a union of two different natures. He was both Soul and Deity in union.
Keep in mind. Jesus clearly stated that God is "spirit" in essence, as found in John 4:23-24.
Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in the Spirit and in truth.”
Is that safe to assume that we can know that God is "spirit" in essence? Yet, the Lord God of Israel possessed two natures in union. It did not begin with the Incarnation. He always was two natures in union. Its what distinguishes the Son from the Father who is solely one nature.
Here are some proof of what I speak. See what you think...
You will eat the old supply and clear out the old because of the new. Moreover, I will make My dwelling among you, and My soul will not reject you.'I will also walk among you and be your God, and you shall be My people." Lev 26:10-12
And they began to remove the foreign gods from their midst and to serve Jehovah, so that his soul became impatient because of the trouble of Israel. Jdges 10:16
Jehovah himself examines the righteous one as well as the wicked one, and anyone loving violence his soul certainly hates." Ps 11:5
“Bring no more futile sacrifices; Incense is an abomination to Me. The New Moons, the Sabbaths, and the calling of assemblies— I cannot endure iniquity and the sacred meeting. Your New Moons and your appointed feasts My soul hates; They are a trouble to Me, I am weary of bearing them.. Isa 1:13-14
God (Deity) is not soul!
As those passages reveal, the Lord Jehovah of Israel consisted of two natures in a unique union. With the same Soul that entered the body provided by Mary's womb to make Himself be as a man!
You are thinking inside a box. Its not there.If you had said Soul, Nous, and One, I would have recognized it as Neoplatonism. Are you referring to the One and the Dyad? Is this a school of thought or your own thought?
I was wondering if and where He fits into your thoughts about God. After all He has the same rank as Jesus.
He would have to be Jesus if that were so. No one else has the same rank as Jesus.
Was Melchizedak sinless like Jesus?
He would have to be Jesus if that were so. No one else has the same rank as Jesus.
Was Melchizedak sinless like Jesus?
Melchizedak had attributes of a type that Jesus has forever.
In Genesis 18, Abraham spoke with the Lord who appeared as a man in the beginning of the chapter. Abraham did not think he was Melchizedak. Abraham could discern the difference.
High priests were not sinless. They entered the holy of holies having offered for their sins before they could make an offering for the sins of others.Sure, otherwise He wouldn't have been qualified to establish the Priesthood Jesus took when He became our High Priest.
The only form of punishment that makes sense in relation to the divine is reformative, cathartic, healing punishment. It's like bad medicine but good in the end.
Retributive punishment makes no sense in relation to the divine. God lacks nothing; nothing can be taken from God. Hence, no retribution needed. God can heal, restore, redeem creation with a mere thought (a Word, even), if God so desires. There's just no need for divine retribution.
There's no need for God to use punishment as a deterrent. God knows the heart. If fear of punishment keeps us from acting, but our hearts desire the act, God knows that; and therefore, God knows our hearts are rotten and need healing.
Yes, the idea of divine punishment as an eternal act is repulsive. And, it just doesn't make sense, either.
High priests were not sinless. They entered the holy of holies having offered for their sins before they could make an offering for the sins of others.
But only the high priest entered the inner room, and that only once a year, and never without blood, which he offered for himself and for the sins the people had committed in ignorance." Heb 9:7
Jesus never made an offering for himself. Like I said... Melchizedak was a symbolic 'type.' Just like a lamb without spot or blemish was a type of Jesus in sacrifice.
High priests were not sinless. They entered the holy of holies having offered for their sins before they could make an offering for the sins of others.
But only the high priest entered the inner room, and that only once a year, and never without blood, which he offered for himself and for the sins the people had committed in ignorance." Heb 9:7
Jesus never made an offering for himself. Like I said... Melchizedak was a symbolic 'type.' Just like a lamb without spot or blemish was a type of Jesus in sacrifice.
Melchizedek was not a Jewish priest. The Jewish priesthood wasn't established until hundreds of years later. Now how could a sinner establish a priesthood for Jesus?
High priests were not sinless. They entered the holy of holies having offered for their sins before they could make an offering for the sins of others.
But only the high priest entered the inner room, and that only once a year, and never without blood, which he offered for himself and for the sins the people had committed in ignorance." Heb 9:7
Jesus never made an offering for himself. Like I said... Melchizedak was a symbolic 'type.' Just like a lamb without spot or blemish was a type of Jesus in sacrifice.
He was an actual human king. Gen 14:17-20
Then Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine. He was priest of God Most High, and he blessed Abram, saying:
“Blessed be Abram by God Most High,
Creator of heaven and earth.
And praise be to God Most High,
who delivered your enemies into your hand.”
Then Abram gave him a tenth of everything.
When I said "sinner" I am not speaking about someone who lives a life of sin. All men have a fallen nature. Only Jesus did not.
All high priests had a fallen nature. That's they way it was. They would sin. That is why the high priest had to make a sin offering for himself before making an offering for the people.
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Hebrews 7
For this Melchisedec, king of Salem, priest of the most high God, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings, and blessed him; To whom also Abraham gave a tenth part of all; first being by interpretation King of righteousness, and after that also King of Salem, which is, King of peace; Without father, without mother, without descent, having neither beginning of days, nor end of life; but made like unto the Son of God; abideth a priest continually.
The book of Hebrews calls Melchizedek the King of Righteousness. Doesnt sound fallen to me.
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