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Hi Zone Chaos.ZoneChaos said:Question...
What happenes if we fail to reconcile to God before we die?
So you would accept that God has created and continually creates people He already knows will fall, so He may punish them forever?ZoneChaos said:And that scenario would have made the best sense if salvation were universal..But for whatever reason, God wanted man to have a choice to accept or reject salvation.
If this is the case, no longer can Jesus be a mediator between man and God, because He died He must have lost His link with us? So when we die if we are not men, what are we?ZoneChaos said:Simply: He can mediate between us and God because of His dual nature of being fully god and Fully man... Father is God, Jesus is God, Jesus is Man, we are man. What happens when we die, and lose all that makes us man? Our flesh? We lose that link between us and Jesus Christ, our mediator.
What is judgement? Judgement will be Christ showing us all truth and again only out of love. And judgement has a cleansing purpose just like fire:ZoneChaos said:Deeper: It is apoointed to man to die once, then judgement. After death, we are judged, not saved, not wait around a while, then get saved when we are ready. We die, we are judged by the merits: by what we did or did not do in Life.. namely, Beleive and accept salvation by grace through Faith. Salvation by grace, through faith is meaningless after death, because Faith is no longer required, as everything is known. Things are no longer hoped for and thigns are no longer unseen. Death takes faith out of the equation, and thus nullifies the equation: salvation no longer is possible.
OK, I can accept that. However, it would seem to open a common question against UR and that is if Christ was saving people then why was His sacrifice required?ZoneChaos said:Jesus Christ, as God, is the same yesterday, today and always. He has always been, and always will be. Jesus was our mediator then as well as now. It was Jesus Christ, the Son of god who walked with Adam in the garden. It was Jesus who was with Enoch and with Elijah.
KJV:ZoneChaos said:Actually, contend is used int he KJV, whoch I believe is the version I quoted. The KJV, NKJV, NASB, RSV, ASV, HNV, Webster's, and Darby all use "contend".
If I were to read the verse above, I would use the definition of "accuse" where accuse it, and not "contend". I would then get a very different verse.
So God will be living through all the people living in hell? I thought hell would have been the most sinful place ever?ZoneChaos said:Seperation does not mean He is not in control. Hell will still exist. Satan will be seperate from Him, yet God is still all in all. The Beast, the AntiChrist, all those that will go into the lake of fire will be seperate from him, and yet He is still allin all, so it is with man. Man can and will be seperate from God for eternity, if man chooses to, and God will still be God.
Romans 11ZoneChaos said:But it is Israel... just not the nation proper, but rather the saved. The two groups a mentioned in my last post were: All mankind or all those who were saved (non-universalist view).
ZoneChaos said:What scripture? I know of "salvation by faith thorugh grace... faith being key there...
I agree with Roman's 9, but in conjuction with Ephesians 2:8 "For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: [it is] the gift of God:"
Without Faith, as I asked above, how is there salvation?
Romans 11john14_20 said:Hi Zone Chaos.
We cannot fail to reconcile to God before we die.
2 reasons.
Firstly, reconcilliation has nothing to do with us and everything to do with God
Secondly, the reconcilliation of every man, woman and child who has ever lived, or will ever live, has already taken place in Jesus Christ.
Blessings, Pete
Ok.. besides reconciliation, what needs to take place spiritually in order to get into heaven, in your opinion. Also, where do you stand on the issue at hand?john14_20 said:Hey Zone Chaos - I have been posting here and realised I never addressed your question specifically!
So, here goes.
The reconcilliation of the human race, the entire human race, to the Father, has already happened in the Incarnation and Atonement of Jesus Christ. We have all already been reconciled to the Father. Why bother with dying on the cross? Because that's the way He forged that reconcilliation.
But to say that the whole world has been reconciled to the Father in Jesus is not the same thing as to say that the whole world will be in Heaven.
Blessings to all in Christ's Glorious name, Pete
Let me re-ask this question, and ask a new one:john14_20 said:Hi Zone Chaos.
We cannot fail to reconcile to God before we die.
2 reasons.
Firstly, reconcilliation has nothing to do with us and everything to do with God
Secondly, the reconcilliation of every man, woman and child who has ever lived, or will ever live, has already taken place in Jesus Christ.
Blessings, Pete
Yes, poeple are created, who God knows will fail. however, it is the will of man, through sex, that these people are created, and it is not a punishemnt of God, for being sinful, but a punishemnt of sin for being sinful.G4m said:So you would accept that God has created and continually creates people He already knows will fall, so He may punish them forever?
The whole point of Him being mediator was that he died and rose again.If this is the case, no longer can Jesus be a mediator between man and God, because He died He must have lost His link with us? So when we die if we are not men, what are we?
Where in this definition is accountability?What is judgement? Judgement will be Christ showing us all truth and again only out of love. And judgement has a cleansing purpose just like fire:
It isn't as if God is "keeping" them at all. They are 100% seperate from God, for eternity. They are not kept... The exist eternally in this seperation. God I do not think would forget them, but in all appearances, it is as if they did not exist to God.Surely God must be wroth against those trapped in eternal hell, otherwise why would He keep people there?
This may sound harsh, but onw thing has nothig to do with the other. God is Love, and God endures forever. Also, They are seperate from that Love, being seperate from God.And how will He show love to those trapped in hell?
God will not be "living" through them, since they will not be alive. Only the saved shall recieve "life" eternally.So God will be living through all the people living in hell? I thought hell would have been the most sinful place ever?
Under the new covanent, all Christians are "Israel": God people.Why does Paul link Israel with Jacob, if He is not talking about the actual people from Israel?
you must accept that the man, named Jesus Christ, was and is God.. and you muist accept that this man, Jesus Christ, the Son of God is your only savior and LOrd, and that He is the only way to heaven, is by the Grace of God, through Jesus Christ, by having Faith in Jesus Christ.seebs said:I'm curious; is the idea that you have to use the name Jesus, or that you have to accept God? Can you accept God without accepting Jesus, given the theological assertion that they're the same entity?
This is not correct, it was a command from God after the fall:ZoneChaos said:Yes, poeple are created, who God knows will fail. however, it is the will of man, through sex, that these people are created, and it is not a punishemnt of God, for being sinful, but a punishemnt of sin for being sinful.
What need is there for judgement for good and bad things done then? If we are just separated...ZoneChaos said:Many universalists come to be universalists becasue they come to a place where they see God as the one who would be at fault for our sins, and yet cannot accept that God would punish us. The thing is, eternal seperation is not a punishment, but a by-product of a sinful nature, one we were not originally created with.
If we lose our human nature, what do we become?ZoneChaos said:The whole point of Him being mediator was that he died and rose again.
This allows Him to be a mediator bwteen us and God. He retained His human nature after death.. we cannot.
2 Corinthians 5ZoneChaos said:Where in this definition is accountability?
OK, I can accept that. However, it would seem to open a common question against UR and that is if Christ was saving people then why was His sacrifice required?ZoneChaos said:Jesus Christ, as God, is the same yesterday, today and always. He has always been, and always will be. Jesus was our mediator then as well as now. It was Jesus Christ, the Son of god who walked with Adam in the garden. It was Jesus who was with Enoch and with Elijah.
Why would He bother resurrected people who are already separated from Himself through death (because the wages of sin is death), they may as well just stay in the grave?ZoneChaos said:It isn't as if God is "keeping" them at all. They are 100% seperate from God, for eternity. They are not kept... The exist eternally in this seperation. God I do not think would forget them, but in all appearances, it is as if they did not exist to God.
This may sound harsh, but onw thing has nothig to do with the other. God is Love, and God endures forever. Also, They are seperate from that Love, being seperate from God.
God will not be "living" through them, since they will not be alive. Only the saved shall recieve "life" eternally.
Where is this stated?ZoneChaos said:Under the new covanent, all Christians are "Israel": God people.
ZoneChaos said:you must accept that the man, named Jesus Christ, was and is God.. and you muist accept that this man, Jesus Christ, the Son of God is your only savior and LOrd, and that He is the only way to heaven, is by the Grace of God, through Jesus Christ, by having Faith in Jesus Christ.
Isaiah 45seebs said:I'm curious; is the idea that you have to use the name Jesus, or that you have to accept God? Can you accept God without accepting Jesus, given the theological assertion that they're the same entity?
Moses and Abraham are OK.seebs said:This would be pretty bad for Abraham and Moses, no?
Hey seebsseebs said:I'm curious; is the idea that you have to use the name Jesus, or that you have to accept God? Can you accept God without accepting Jesus, given the theological assertion that they're the same entity?
The resurrection comes through Jesus for all (none are excluded):seebs said:So, people who appear to us to have never even heard of Jesus may yet somehow be saved, because they have faith in God... Very useful, but at that point, why not just say that faith in God is the requirement, and explain that Jesus is the mechanism by which God saves you, but ignorance of the road sign need not prevent you from walking the road?
Yes but the problem lies in that all the people on a sinking boat want to be saved. The reason we accept Jesus is that we have realized that we are not good enough in and of ourselves to live up to Gods standards. To accept forgiveness we must first realize that we need forgiven. In the case of those that do not realize that they need forgiven and hence reject Christ, when the people on the ship don;t think they are in any danger and deny the help of the rescue team, what then?
I think that's it robby!Robby said:But couldn't you say that their thinking that they are not in any danger is something they must be saved from? Wouldn't their lack of desire or obtuseness just show how really fallen they are and how much they really need to be saved? Would not god need to save them from themselves?
I'm curious; is the idea that you have to use the name Jesus, or that you have to accept God? Can you accept God without accepting Jesus, given the theological assertion that they're the same entity?
What does God do before we die? He lovingly and graciously calls us to accept what Jesus has made of us and sit back and enjoy existence in His presence. (Not that the unbeleiver does not exist in His presence, it's just that he does not know this) What will happen after we die? Nothing different. He will continue to lovingly and graciously call us.ZoneChaos said:Let me re-ask this question, and ask a new one:
What happenes if we do not accept Jesus Christ as our personal Lord and Savior before we die?
No. Reconcilliation means (as in my closing quote) that Jesus has put an end to all things that separate from His Father. He has made us fit for relationship, and in fact drawn us into a participation in His relationship, with the Father. Salvation is about knowing and accepting that this has happened. Not knowing or not accepting it cannot undo it - the reconcilliation will still be done - but there is no enjoyment in a gift that is not wanted or not understood. So God will still keep doing what He does best.And, do you see reconciliation as being equal to salvation?
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