Saturday, January 19, 2013

He doesn't do random...

"When Israel was a child,
   then I loved him,
   and I called my Son out of Egypt."   Hosea 11:1 (Matthew 2:15)

Matthew, in his New Testament gospel, claims the latter part of this verse as being fulfilled when the child Jesus returns from Egypt with Joseph and Mary, His earthly parents.  Since that claim is true, then the prophet is pointing out the way that God works in the realm of humanity.

Those who are enamored with the unbiblical system of Calvin try to teach that God does things on the basis of random choice (randomness philosophy = evolutionism).  They cannot explain why He does the things He does (Amos 3:7) and resort to pompous word usage such as "Sovereignty of God" as a trump card over honest questions asked about the inconsistencies of their system.  "Sovereignty of God", in their way of declaring it, usually means, "We don't have an answer to why we believe God chose to make humans that He always intended to destroy as reprobates and we don't care since we are saved... God does things because He wants to and who are YOUU that you dare to question Him or us who speak for Him??!!" 

I personally reject, in the name of Jesus, that calvinists speak for God (Jesus is God) since they don't recognize the clear picture in the Bible that God acts on the basis of love.  God loves Israel and He calls His own Son out of the relative safety of Egypt to go home to the land of Israel in order to suffer and die at the hands of people He loves.  That they hate Him and reject the offer of eternal life that He has made to them does not change His love for them.  He still makes it available to them...salvation was not pre-packaged before creation and delivered to them and certainly was not handed out to Gentiles.  Jesus is salvation and He makes himself available in time.

Jesus has perfect timing.  He fulfilled all the prophecies about Him on time and in time.  The Bible does not spell out any deal that was made by God before creation that guaranteed the salvation of any individual human (who did not exist at that moment) or the damnation of any, either.  The Bible teaches that salvation is based on the outrageous love of God that offers, in time, the Cross of Jesus.  No other provision has been made.  All other deals have been nullified (Hebrews 8:9-10).

Come to Jesus.
Come to the Cross.

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