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According to Paul, Father reconciled all things back to Himself through Christ's death on the cross.Christ is the winner! At calvary he won the battle for mankind. You choose to loose or to win in Christ Jesus. Jesus has doen his part and it is 100% successful in cleaning and paying the price of sin for all people. you decide to accept Jesus or not. I choose to accept Christ Jesus my lord and saviour!
What happens to those (MOST) who reject the terms of His offer of pardon?Christ is the winner! At calvary he won the battle for mankind. You choose to loose or to win in Christ Jesus. Jesus has doen his part and it is 100% successful in cleaning and paying the price of sin for all people. you decide to accept Jesus or not. I choose to accept Christ Jesus my lord and saviour!
What happens to those (MOST) who reject the terms of His offer of pardon?
Matthew 7:13-14 (NKJV)
[sup]13 [/sup]"Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it. [sup]14 [/sup]Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it.
Thanks for clarifying.I don't like to say it but Hell happens to those who do not and refuse not to believe in Jesus Christ.
I strongly suspect that for God to pardon those like Satan and Adam who willfully and in full knowledge of the choice they are making, sin, it would be like setting a precedent for others to take lightly doing the same thing.
1 Timothy 2:14a "And Adam was not deceived ..." And neither was Satan. They made a conscious choice to see another way as better than the way that God had outlined for them.
So then, what about those to who Jesus said, "Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. ..."? (John 8:44a)
I believe these ones do sin after the similitude of Adam. Romans 5:14 "Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come."
I believe that common sense says then that some of us do sin "after the similitude of Adam's trangression."
I won't discuss it at length here, at least for now, but in the life of David we are enabled to see a clear picture of the type of sins God will and will not forgive. We are enabled to know that just as there is a sin that is "not unto [unpardonable] death", "there is a sin unto [unpardonable] death." (1 John 5:16)
Chirst said he would not lose even one of those his Father gave himHi all!
Adam's disobedience led to condemnation of ALL mankind. He was 100 percent "successful" in polluting mankind.
What about Christ? Will He "get back" the 100 percent that Adam lost? Will He be as successful in saving mankind? Or is He falling short?
Blessings,
Brian
Ahigherway, I would put it a little differently:
Adam was 100% successful in staining all mankind with sin..
Jesus was 100% successful in paying the penalty for the sin Adam put on all mankind.
Man alone is responsible for deciding whether to accept Jesus and do away with Adam's curse, or accepting Adam's curse and doing away with the price Christ has paid.
We aren't told that but the Lord knew what they would do from the beginning.What would have happened if Adam had not chosen to partake of the fruit?