12/28/22 DON'T BLAME GOD

12/28/22 DON'T BLAME GOD

If Christians had continued to have the same concern for a lost world that Jesus and the apostles had, the world would have the gospel today. 

Matthew 28:18-20
18 And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.
19 Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:
20 Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen. 

1 Corinthians 15:34
34 Awake to righteousness, and sin not; for some have not the knowledge of God: I speak this to your shame. 

1 Timothy 2:3-6
3 For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour;
4 Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.
5 For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;
6 Who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time. 

2 Peter 3:9
9 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. 

1 John 2:1-2
1 My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:
2 And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.

DON'T BLAME GOD WITH SINNING RELIGIONS FALSE NARRATIVE THAT GOD UNILATERALLY, UNCONDITIONALLY ELECTS SOME TO SALVATION AND SOME TO REPROBATION.

This is a short explanation concerning the doctrine of REPROBATION, by Richard Blaylock, a PhD candidate in Biblical Theology at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky.

DLG note... notices point number one (1). 

"Reprobation is the Augustinian/Reformed doctrine that God has eternally decreed (1) to refrain from extending saving grace to particular individuals and (2) to judge them according to the strict standards of divine justice. Though there are debates over finer points of theological nuance, all within the Augustinian/Reformed tradition agree that God decrees that certain individuals will be justly punished for the purpose of magnifying God’s justice and grace and that this punishment is (in some aspects) according to his good pleasure."

DLG response... The doctrine of REPROBATION is the false teaching that God deliberately withholds the offer of salvation through grace from specific individuals, in order that they may be punished for the glory of God.

This is a false doctrine. Instead, the Bible clearly and repeatedly teaches God's merciful provision of salvation for all, conditioned upon human faith in Christ's sacrificial death. 

John 3:16
16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. 

Romans 5:18-19
18 Therefore as by the offence of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life.
19 For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous. 

Hebrews 2:9
9 But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour; that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man.