… cast out with him” Thus, when we open our Bible at Genesis, after reading of the creation of Adam and Eve, we find them living in innocence and happiness as God’s stewards of Eden. Suddenly this idyll is broken by the appearance of Eve’s tempter, the devil. He tells her that if she obeys God’s rule not to eat of the fruit of the central tree in the garden she will not die, as God has warned, but she will become god-like and be given all knowledge. As we know, Eve saw how laden the …
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… of this interpretation is Romans 5:14 which reads in the AV, “Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude (homoiōmati) of Adam’s transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come.” Here we see that death reigned over all sinners whether before or after the Mosaic law was given because sin entered the world with Adam’s fall not Moses’ law. However, Paul is also writing about realised prophecy because the Second …
… status as a South Korean means, for Eveson, that Christians are no longer regarded as being ‘in Adam’ but as being New Creatures in Christ. This sounds good, but Eveson spoils this goodness by reminding us that we are speaking of status only. The North Korean is the same man as he is under a South Korean government; he has merely a new passport. This is all justification means to a Christian. Eveson thus separates justification from its attributes claimed by Scripture and our Reformers. …
Imputation of Sin
Nov 14
… it to mean that all those who die do so because of sin, even He who did not sin as the first Adam, i.e. the Second Adam. I base this on Romans 5.12 ff.. All men are thus imputed with sin, and all men thus die, though one man knew no sin personally. In taking upon Himself the form of a man, Christ voluntarily imputed Himself with sin for our sakes. Though He kept Himself free from actually sinning, He was born to die just like other men, and die He did. He also showed human frailty and …
The Lawful Use of the Law
Aug 21
… first is that Jesus is very clear in showing that marriage for life was a pre-fall ideal given to Adam and that those who have difficulty in keeping to such ideals – as all who are in Adam –may yet find forgiveness in Christ. The second is that Haak bases his arguments on Luke 16:18 alone which clearly refers to the law that condemns us, yet he does not apply the grace that saves us to it. Thirdly, Christ refers to the Mosaic regulations on marriage being applied because of the hardness …
… sin is. Satan’s sin was committed in heaven, the spreading of which he propagated on earth in Adam’s day. The elect sin on earth but gain heaven when cleansed of their sins. Reprobate Satan, never to be cleansed, sinned in heaven and gained earth. However, there is a major difference in the comparison. We lose the earthly and gain the heavenly eternally, whereas Satan, who lost the heavenly, does not gain the earth eternally but is merely here for a season, to be used as God wills. …
… no way reflects man’s capacities and abilities but solely his moral inclinations. All the powers Adam enjoyed before his fall are still at man’s disposal. Indeed, Bellamy sees man almost exclusively as a probationer Adam who has been given a second chance not to sin. In his opening words, Bellamy says:
“We are designed, by God our Maker, for an endless existence. In this present life we just enter upon being, and are in a state introductory to a never-ending duration in another world, …
The Atonement
Aug 17
… sees Him as a Probation Officer who gives God an opportunity of displaying benevolence to His Adam-like probationers. Christ’s defence on behalf of the probationers is not what He has done to settle the score for them in the vicarious penal and jural sense of ransom and remission. It is a plea for a removal of man’s obligations through God’s benevolent discretion. God, on His part, does not demand that the whole law, spirit and letter, be kept in any way by anyone but especially not …
… modern denial of the two natures in man. Rusk teaches how the old man, the body of sin, is born in Adam and condemned with Adam and his new man is in Christ, the Second Adam but both remain in the converted soul until death is followed by a perfect resurrection. Rusk tells us that when he first sought the Lord, he thought that he would be rid of the ´stinking, filthy, putrid carcase` of the old man and be an entirely new creature both in flesh and spirit. Now, as a converted man, he realises …
Christ’s Sinless Nature
Oct 5
Posted by George Ella in Letters | No Comments
… and man to die vicariously for sinners. In God’s faultless plan of salvation, we read ‘as in Adam all die so in Christ shall all be made alive’. Romans 5:12 ff. makes it clear that the fault came by one man, the first Adam and the fault was remedied by one man, the second Adam.
So, too, the idea that Christ had no physical descent from Mary, given that He was conceived by the Holy Spirit, again virtually denies the Incarnation. Why then the detailed study in the Scriptures …
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