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One of the New Testament Greek words for redemption is apolutrosis (ap-ol
oo'-tro-sis); which means: to ransom in full.
Another is lutrosis (loo'-tro-sis); which means: a ransoming.
● 1Tim 2:5-6 . . Christ Jesus, who gave himself as ransom for all.
A ransom can be defined as a consideration paid or demanded for the
release of someone or something in a captive situation; e.g. an
overwhelming debt that a debtor cannot possibly ever pay off, and or
slavery from which the slave himself hasn't, nor will ever have, the means
with which to buy himself out. For example:
● 1Pet 1:18-19 . .You were ransomed from your futile conduct, handed on
by your ancestors, not with perishable things like silver or gold, but with the
precious blood of Christ as of a spotless unblemished lamb.
Speaking for myself; I highly value Christ's crucifixion and resurrection as
God's one and only acceptable ransom from an otherwise disagreeable
future in the lake of brimstone depicted at Rev 20:11-15.
Another not so obvious aspect of Christ's ransom that I also highly value is
liberation from human nature.
● Jer 13:23 . . Can the Ethiopian change his skin or the leopard its spots?
Neither can you do good who are accustomed to doing evil.
No, I cannot change my spots so to speak. Like the leopard; I too am a
prisoner, not of a captor, rather, of myself.
Writing about this situation; the apostle Paul said:
● Eph 2:1-3 . .You were dead in your transgressions and sins in which you
once lived following the age of this world, following the ruler of the power of
the air, the spirit that is now at work in the disobedient. All of us once lived
among them in the desires of our flesh, following the wishes of the flesh and
the impulses, and we were by nature children of wrath, like the rest.
The pronouns "us" and "our" and "we" indict the apostle Paul right along
with the recipients of his letter.
This implies that even if people were totally forgiven for every sinful word
they ever spoke, totally forgiven for every bad thing they ever did, and
totally forgiven for every bad thought they ever imagined; they would still
be barred access to heaven because of their propensity for evil. The Oxford
dictionary defines propensity as an inclination or natural tendency to behave
in a particular way.
Christ's crucifixion and resurrection have made it possible for God to strip
away people's human nature and replace it with His own; thus essentially
liberating people from themselves.
● Col 2:9-11 . . For in him dwells the whole fullness of the deity bodily, and
you share in this fullness in him, who is the head of every principality and
power. In him you were also circumcised with a circumcision not
administered by hand, by stripping off the carnal body, with the circumcision
of Christ.
● 2Pet 1:3-4 . . His divine power has bestowed on us everything that makes
for life and devotion, through the knowledge of him who called us by his own
glory and power. Through these, he has bestowed on us the precious and
very great promises, so that through them you may come to share in the
divine nature, after escaping from the corruption that is in the world because
of evil desire.
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One of the New Testament Greek words for redemption is apolutrosis (ap-ol
oo'-tro-sis); which means: to ransom in full.
Another is lutrosis (loo'-tro-sis); which means: a ransoming.
● 1Tim 2:5-6 . . Christ Jesus, who gave himself as ransom for all.
A ransom can be defined as a consideration paid or demanded for the
release of someone or something in a captive situation; e.g. an
overwhelming debt that a debtor cannot possibly ever pay off, and or
slavery from which the slave himself hasn't, nor will ever have, the means
with which to buy himself out. For example:
● 1Pet 1:18-19 . .You were ransomed from your futile conduct, handed on
by your ancestors, not with perishable things like silver or gold, but with the
precious blood of Christ as of a spotless unblemished lamb.
Speaking for myself; I highly value Christ's crucifixion and resurrection as
God's one and only acceptable ransom from an otherwise disagreeable
future in the lake of brimstone depicted at Rev 20:11-15.
Another not so obvious aspect of Christ's ransom that I also highly value is
liberation from human nature.
● Jer 13:23 . . Can the Ethiopian change his skin or the leopard its spots?
Neither can you do good who are accustomed to doing evil.
No, I cannot change my spots so to speak. Like the leopard; I too am a
prisoner, not of a captor, rather, of myself.
Writing about this situation; the apostle Paul said:
● Eph 2:1-3 . .You were dead in your transgressions and sins in which you
once lived following the age of this world, following the ruler of the power of
the air, the spirit that is now at work in the disobedient. All of us once lived
among them in the desires of our flesh, following the wishes of the flesh and
the impulses, and we were by nature children of wrath, like the rest.
The pronouns "us" and "our" and "we" indict the apostle Paul right along
with the recipients of his letter.
This implies that even if people were totally forgiven for every sinful word
they ever spoke, totally forgiven for every bad thing they ever did, and
totally forgiven for every bad thought they ever imagined; they would still
be barred access to heaven because of their propensity for evil. The Oxford
dictionary defines propensity as an inclination or natural tendency to behave
in a particular way.
Christ's crucifixion and resurrection have made it possible for God to strip
away people's human nature and replace it with His own; thus essentially
liberating people from themselves.
● Col 2:9-11 . . For in him dwells the whole fullness of the deity bodily, and
you share in this fullness in him, who is the head of every principality and
power. In him you were also circumcised with a circumcision not
administered by hand, by stripping off the carnal body, with the circumcision
of Christ.
● 2Pet 1:3-4 . . His divine power has bestowed on us everything that makes
for life and devotion, through the knowledge of him who called us by his own
glory and power. Through these, he has bestowed on us the precious and
very great promises, so that through them you may come to share in the
divine nature, after escaping from the corruption that is in the world because
of evil desire.
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