January 27, 2014
Uncorrected
In writing about the
atonement, Anselm of Canterbury (c.1033-1109) said that without the sacrifice
of Christ, the only possible way to correct sin would be punishment. “…not to
punish it, is to leave it uncorrected. But God cannot properly leave anything
uncorrected in His kingdom. Furthermore, to leave sin unpunished would be
tantamount to treating the sinful and sinless alike, which would be
inconsistent with God’s nature.” In Scripture homosexuality is no different
than any other sin. However, since participants openly practice and celebrate this
particular sin; it is quite easy to see that there is not even the smallest
resemblance of repentance. We really shouldn’t be uncomfortable asking a practicing
homosexual, “Don’t you know that your sin will not go unpunished?” Really, when
you stop and think about it, labels like intolerant, judgmental, and bigoted may
be thrown around, but they just don’t stick to God.
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Gail;
-----I think it can be said that “God in your life” boils down to one analytical equation: perfectly know the life you know like God does; or be left. None of us knows all life. We can’t. Our minds are not big enough. God’s mind is infinitely big. He knows everything completely, and everything every human will have known. So God knows all that you know, just like you know it. “Sheol and Abaddon lie open before the LORD how much more the hearts of men!” (Ps 15:11)
-----He even knows it better than do you, “For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and spirit, of joints and marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart. And before Him no creature is hidden, but all are open and laid bare to the eyes of Him with whom we have to do.” (Heb 4:12-13) Coolest thing is that He knows the same things you know the way you should know them, too, being the way you will know them once you‘ve been perfected. That is, He knows the perfect version of what you now are, and He will bring you to be that, since you desire to know things the way He wants to know things.
-----In short, you’ve chosen His side; you’ve inclined your heart to doing right. Then, since your spirit is now united with God’s, when your body stops functioning your spirit won’t be caught having locked itself alone, out in the cold, in that darkness, being all self made, and then all self lost in denial of the way He knows things. I honestly don’t think being cast into Hell is an actual being cast into Hell as much as it is an actual failure to step into the One gone to Heaven. The homosexual may deny, rant, or rave all he wants, but God has given him exactly the same equal rights to salvation that He has given to everyone else.
-----But Jesus Christ has to be chosen, and the desire to be right is evidenced by effort to do right. “Right” is not a self determined concept no matter how much one might plead and beg for it to be. It is what I AM defines because it is the way He thinks. That is why coming to Him through Christ is right, and everything else is left. I think a lot of arguments between people about what is right and wrong don’t have a confirmable solution for this temporal time being. But any arguing against God's Word is a different matter entirely. Many doers of their own understandings against God’s directions carry on unrestrained. Don’t mistake that for being right, like they do.
-----The failure of our government to punish according to the Word of God’s definition of right and wrong has left lots of evildoers running free to think no-one punishes what they like. God is even withholding His wrath for the time being, until sin has grown to its fullest. And popular sentiment is now feeding in the hemlock pastures of various arguers against and accusers of God‘s Word. Something will happen when it is perfectly time.
Love you all,
Steve Corey
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