Actually you mean that the “gospel”
you preach is not for me....or for very many others I assume. How many of you believe this “gospel” ? Not even Google has heard of you.....How are you to fulfill the mandate to preach the gospel in "all inhabited earth" to "all the nations"? if there is only a handful of you? (Matthew 24:14)
That is not my belief at all. Jesus was Jewish and the laws regarding redemption apply to his sacrifice. Jesus did not have to be God to provide the price of redemption.....all the redeemer had to be was the equivalent of Adam...i.e. a sinless human....one who was not a son of the original sinner and father of us all. Adam was no hero, he is responsible for the death of the entire human race. (Romans 5:12)
Romans 5:18-19....
“So, then, as through one trespass the result to men of all sorts was condemnation, so too through one act of justification the result to men of all sorts is their being declared righteous for life. 19 For just as through the disobedience of the one man many were made sinners, so also through the obedience of the one person many will be made righteous.”
It would also mean that mere humans could kill God....a really stupid notion I’m sure you’ll agree.....either all scripture is God inspired or it isn't. We don’t get to choose what to apply and what to ignore.
You repeatedly and conveniently ignore scripture when it disagrees with your chosen beliefs.
As long as humans are in the flesh in this world, sin is inevitable. Without the sacrifice of the Christ, no permanent forgiveness was possible. Saul did not write the letters which form part of the Christian scriptures...it was the apostle Paul.....one specially chosen by Jesus for his specific mission. Do you believe that God has no power over what is contained in his own instruction manual?
Hebrews 9:22...
“Yes, according to the Law nearly all things are cleansed with blood, and unless blood is poured out no forgiveness takes place.”
Christ’s sacrifice is what makes forgiveness possible. We are cleansed by his blood.
Do you understand what what Caiaphas did there?....he actually spoke the truth because what he said was “not from himself”....the words he spoke were from God. He actually prophesied that Jesus would die for the Jewish nation. That was something the Jews hotly denied.
Whoever is your teacher is completely ignorant of scripture. There is no understanding of scripture demonstrated in your beliefs at all.
2 Corinthians 5:14-15.....
“For the love the Christ has compels us, because this is what we have concluded, that one man died for all; so, then, all had died. 15 And he died for all so that those who live should live no longer for themselves, but for him who died for them and was raised up.”
My God did not have to die for me either.....but he sent his son who willingly paid the price to redeem us from sin and all the harm and suffering it has done in this world. A condition we inherited from your hero Adam.
Then I don’t believe that you will benefit at all from the sacrifice that God provided for all of us.....there are only “sheep and goats” in the world when Christ returns as judge.....the sheep will gain life, but the goats will suffer the same fate as Adam......they will never see life again. Eternal death is the opposite of eternal life.
God made us mortal humans to live forever on this earth. He already had a spirit family in heaven. Everlasting life in mortal flesh was made possible by God in the beginning with a “tree of life” there in the garden to guarantee that life would continue forever, but the disobedience of the first pair under influence from a rebel spirit (who wanted to be a god himself) resulted in the greatest of object lesson humanity will ever experience. Access to the "tree of life" was thereafter denied.
We are all telling God who we are, and where our worship will be placed....without any interference from him. We will all be caught in the act of being our authentic selves.
My belief is that the resulting separation at the final judgment of this world will see all opposers of God’s kingdom eliminated from existence. All those who chose false gods and false religions will also be judged unworthy of life. Only those found “doing the will of the Father” will get to enjoy the gift of life as God intended at the beginning.
No rebels make life easier for anyone. Free will cannot be exercised at the expense of the free will of others....so at the end of the day, we will all have experienced what that feels like...to have your will overridden by someone more powerful, but equally flawed in their humanity. There is a big difference between surrendering your will for the overall good of others and having it stomped on to enrich someone who is simply more powerful and whose motives are questionable.
God wants us to surrender our will to his, having experienced all the negatives that abuse of free will brings.
To surrender our will to God’s requires trust....absolute trust, which when you come to really know God, comes very easily.
Acts 17:24-27....
“The God who made the world and all the things in it, being, as he is, Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in handmade temples; 25 nor is he served by human hands as if he needed anything, because he himself gives to all people life and breath and all things. 26 And he made out of one man every nation of men to dwell on the entire surface of the earth, and he decreed the appointed times and the set limits of where men would dwell, 27 so that they would seek God, if they might grope for him and really find him, although, in fact, he is not far off from each one of us.”
