Jennifer Rothnie
Well-Known Member
"'
]\
To Ordain in Hebrew is 'to fill' or fulfill, to accomplish, or to perfect. It isn't God who is responsible for filling the land with sin, but man (Jer 16:8, etc.)
To ordain in Greek is to set down, that is, to put someone or something in charge and give authority and standing, which then enables that person to rule. I can find no scripture that states God -gave- sin authority over us, appointing it to rule us, as opposed to our subjection to sin being the fault of Adam.
"For if, by the trespass of the one man, death reigned through that one man..." Rom 5:17 (Not, 'death reigned by the ordination of God that man might trespass'..)
To ordain, in English, is to order or officially decree, or to set someone up in charge.
Has God ever officially decreed that man must sin? Has God ever set up sin as ruler over us? No! Christ died to free us from slavery to sin and become our Master. Christ died to free us from the penalty of sin. That was by the decreed will of His Father, not against God's decrees.
It is not God that ordained sin, but man that embraced sin.
Indeed, to sin is to 'miss the mark' of God's righteousness - like an arrow missing the target. If God ever ordained a man to sin, then the mark would change - meaning whatever the man hit by the ordination of God would be the new mark and not a sin. And since we know the character of God does not change, this is an impossibility.
]\
Did so.
To Ordain in Hebrew is 'to fill' or fulfill, to accomplish, or to perfect. It isn't God who is responsible for filling the land with sin, but man (Jer 16:8, etc.)
To ordain in Greek is to set down, that is, to put someone or something in charge and give authority and standing, which then enables that person to rule. I can find no scripture that states God -gave- sin authority over us, appointing it to rule us, as opposed to our subjection to sin being the fault of Adam.
"For if, by the trespass of the one man, death reigned through that one man..." Rom 5:17 (Not, 'death reigned by the ordination of God that man might trespass'..)
To ordain, in English, is to order or officially decree, or to set someone up in charge.
Has God ever officially decreed that man must sin? Has God ever set up sin as ruler over us? No! Christ died to free us from slavery to sin and become our Master. Christ died to free us from the penalty of sin. That was by the decreed will of His Father, not against God's decrees.
It is not God that ordained sin, but man that embraced sin.
Indeed, to sin is to 'miss the mark' of God's righteousness - like an arrow missing the target. If God ever ordained a man to sin, then the mark would change - meaning whatever the man hit by the ordination of God would be the new mark and not a sin. And since we know the character of God does not change, this is an impossibility.
Last edited:
Upvote
0