Wednesday, November 4, 2015

Justic for all

Yes ...Thor I understand your position and in part i agree. Although God gave specific punishments to display His justice I believe that all sin from Gods perspective requires the punishment of death. The reason is because God is the only one who knows pure justice.This is why God established the curses because He does not see justice as if the person was responsible in the way we establish justice on this earth. Gods justice from the beginning of time to the end of time is proven right because He sees sin as a form of communication that establishes relationships in the present, connected to the communication that goes all the way back to the first sin. This is why I focus on the potential that we were created with instead of the reasons for our guilt that was imputed to us from the first sin. The curses give me a view that Gods actions toward sin and corruption are far worse than our definition of justice in responding to these sinful actions. And so Gods blessing is far greater than we could imagine concerning our potential as created beings.

Every thing that God created was for His purpose. Nothing that He created was identical. So in this sense God does not view unity as equaling similarities of things and people. Rather God speaks in such a way that He orders all things to work out for His goodness and pleasure. So everybodies potential is the perfect view of God that He has spoken in His word. This perfect description is applied through His covenants and decrees. These covenants are Gods absolute promise to act according to His word. We have the way God recreates and not the details of how He accomplishes creating all things.

Not only has God described everything perfectly in His word but He has gifted us with metaphysical qualities that are descriptions of our perfect identity. Our perfect identity is God establishing through us by communicating perfect unity of body and soul. God has gifted us with desires that are formed to recreate our world. These desires are Gods perfect expression of the perfect Man. We find this emotional description in the book of Psalms. This perfect Man who is limited to His time and space controls all nations and things of the world. Gods word goes out in His gifts of desires to recreate all things for His purpose and glory. I believe we touch eternity when we express the desire as Christ has expressed it seeing although He did not sin , He came as close to sin in His struggle as if He identified with us in our struggle in His perfect expression in the Psalms. And in this since we can rise up to control all things in this perfect reflection in our emotional life as in a small way that Christ experienced His desires on this earth.
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 The apostle extended the curses in Galatians. 3 10 For all who rely on the works of the law are under a curse, as it is written: “Cursed is everyone who does not continue to do everything written in the Book of the Law.”[e] 11 Clearly no one who relies on the law is justified before God, because “the righteous will live by faith.”[f] 12 The law is not based on faith; on the contrary, it says, “The person who does these things will live by them.”[g] 13 Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us, for it is written: “Cursed is everyone who is hung on a pole.”[h] 14 He redeemed us in order that the blessing given to Abraham might come to the Gentiles through Christ Jesus, so that by faith we might receive the promise of the Spirit.

He distinguishes the elect from the reprobate according to the Abrahamic covenant.  Those who are in a covenant relationship with God are not under the curse because they live according to faith because they are given a foreign righteousness. In the ot God established His righteousness by acting as a substitute for the elect. God provided an animal sacrifice as the remedy to those who violated His law. The elect enjoyed freedom from the law by believing that the sacrifice of the coming Redeemer brought them into a relationship with God that was one sided. God established the relationship by giving them all that they possessed. Not just those things that pertain to saving faith but all the things in this life. God removed judgement and provided them with rewards both temporary and future. The covenant with Abraham provided them with Gods covenant of redemption. Under this covenant every thing that opposes the elect will be destroyed so the elect will be completely delivered. Every circumstance the elect go through is Gods display of His salvation. The elect are no longer under the curse.

But those who are not in this covenant relationship look to the law to be righteous. They are under the curse. In the ot economy the gospel was propagated by Israel and went out to the nations. But in the new covenant the gospel is propagated through all nations. The apostle uses universal language to describe the extent of the success of Gods salvation in His saving or electing men from every tribe, nation, etc. The apostles ministry extended to the ends of the earth beyond the old covenant that God established with Israel. And you see the apostle making this universal curse in Galatians.1 8 But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach a gospel other than the one we preached to you, let them be under God’s curse! 9 As we have already said, so now I say again: If anybody is preaching to you a gospel other than what you accepted, let them be under God’s curse! He repeats it twice for emphasis.

You will find the apostle applying this in the context of salvation and deliverance in those who oppose Gods people..Romans 16 20" The God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet."  He has this same attitude in 2 Timothy 4 14 "Alexander the metalworker did me a great deal of harm. The Lord will repay him for what he has done." The Apostle reasons that if Alexander has success he will destroy a lot of peoples lives. It is like the ot wish in the curse. Then he goes on to say that the Lord will deliver him completely and reward him. 2 Tim 4 16 At my first defense, no one came to my support, but everyone deserted me. May it not be held against them.- (As a faithful Israelite in the ot sense ..the christian context)  17 "But the Lord stood at my side and gave me strength, so that through me the message might be fully proclaimed and all the Gentiles might hear it. And I was delivered from the lion’s mouth. 18 The Lord will rescue me from every evil attack and will bring me safely to his heavenly kingdom. To him be glory for ever and ever. Amen." You see this same attitude displayed in the apostle.
 cont How can the curses end if the consequences of those who break them who are outside of the covenant is death? If the curse ended then God would have overlooked Adams sin. Seeing that sin was added because of the transgression. And every man had the sin of Adam imputed to their account. The result of the transgression was that every man died. The apostle teaches this throughout his epistles. Man was cursed with spiritual and physical death.

In the OT the curses were treated individually attached to the violation of a law. There was a temporary solution through the OT priest. They acted as a mediator between Jehovah and His  covenant people. I do not believe the curses were as effective before the cross as they are after the cross. The curses were used randomly and within the parameters of war. But in the nt the apostle expanded the authority of the curses as far as the gospel went to the ends of the earth. Ill get back to this.

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