Posted: October 10th, 2003 | Author: arnold | Filed under: the Life! | View Comments
I may be a little redundant because I have posted these articles here previously, but Richard just recently sent me a more organized articles that concerns our understanding of the gospel of forgiveness. I’m posting it here for the benefit of the visitors.
Why The Good News Is So Good!
The Essence Of The Gospel
Is Forgiveness Conditional OR Unconditional?
Are The Sinful Lost God’s Children?
Posted: October 10th, 2003 | Author: arnold | Filed under: the Life! | View Comments
While the Bible clearly teaches that unbelievers are “by nature children of wrath,” “children of the evil one,” and are of their father the devil,” important Bible passages indicate in a very significant and fundamental sense that they are God’s children and do belong to Him AT THE SAME TIME.
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Posted: October 10th, 2003 | Author: arnold | Filed under: the Life! | View Comments
Instead of simply categorizing forgiveness as either conditional or unconditional, understanding its deeper nature will allow us to see and realize it’s amazingly both.
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Posted: October 10th, 2003 | Author: arnold | Filed under: the Life! | View Comments
The gospel is the unconditional redemption God accomplished for all sinners in the person of Christ in his living and dying. The good news is not about what happens to you when you believe. The good news is who God is and what He has done for sinners whether or not they believe. Whatever takes place subsequent to man’s faith and repentance is not the gospel but the result of the gospel. “Justification by faith” seems obviously subsequent and conditional to man’s personal response to Jesus Christ. However one defines and claims to understand justification by faith, because it is “by faith” it would necessarily have to fall under the category of result or effect of the gospel.
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Posted: October 10th, 2003 | Author: arnold | Filed under: the Life! | View Comments
1. Christ’s death paid in full the penalty of sin, once and for all. With His blood He signed for the pardon of the entire human race. God does not count against the world its sins because God placed all sins (believers’ and unbelievers’ sins in the past, present and future) upon Christ and counted them against Him (see Hebrews 10:10,12; 2 Corinthians 5:19).
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