“In an earlier post you spoke of conditions a sinner must fulfill in order to access God's grace. “
nope my position is Gods grace was offered to all humanity based only upon what Jesus said and did on the gospel
“And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature. He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.”
Mark 16:15-16 KJV
You might be talking about when I quoted several points when God said this about his mercy ?
“Know therefore that the LORD thy God, he is God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations; and repayeth them that hate him to their face, to destroy them: he will not be slack to him that hateth him, he will repay him to his face.”
Deuteronomy 7:9-10 KJV
to be clear thisnisnt a statement I’m making but a statement God made in the ot. It was a response to Cameron pointing to a verse that seems like Gods randomly giving mercy to one without condition and. NOt an other .
the New Testament is when God declared his grace and truth not the ot
“And of his fulness have all we received, and grace for grace. For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.”
John 1:16-17 KJV
My response to Cameron came fro the same place the le whoch he was talking about. For the point God doesn’t randomly give mercy to one sinner and keep it from another he gives mercy to those who love him and those who rebel against him and refuse his call to repentance that’s who ends up receiving his wrath
“God “will repay each person according to what they have done.”
To those who by persistence in doing good seek glory, honor and immortality, he will give eternal life.
But for those who are self-seeking and who reject the truth and follow evil, there will be wrath and anger. There will be trouble and distress for every human being who does evil: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile;
For God does not show favoritism.”
Romans 2:6-9, 11 NIV
We provoke Gods wrath it’s not pre placed on us his dispostion is mercy but then this happens
“I have spread out my hands all the day unto a rebellious people, which walketh in a way that was not good, after their own thoughts; a people that provoketh me to anger continually to my face; that sacrificeth in gardens, and burneth incense upon altars of brick; which say, Stand by thyself, come not near to me; for I am holier than thou. These are a smoke in my nose, a fire that burneth all the day. Behold, it is written before me: I will not keep silence, but will recompense, even recompense into their bosom, your iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together, saith the LORD, which have burned incense upon the mountains, and blasphemed me upon the hills: therefore will I measure their former work into their bosom.”
Isaiah 65:2-3, 5-7 KJV
We provoke Gods wrath and bring it upon ourselves because we refuse him when he comes near us with his arms open wide it isn’t what he wills fornus it’s what we will against his true word of warning
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