Comment on May 10th, 2007.
great stuff, father stace, in the last couple of posts. more more! i’d like to hear more about gregory…can you go into more detail?
Comment on May 10th, 2007.
Caleb,
Who’s father stace?
Gregory’s feast day (yesterday) is close to my b-day (today) and so he is close to my heart. His theology on the atonement is profound. Basically, it goes something like this: Jesus took all of humanity into himself from conception through resurrection, healing us completely in the process. He assumed our nature to bring about our restoration. In his writings (especially the Theological Orations) there is little about guilt and payment and much about Christ’s ability to heal our sinful nature–to ‘deify’ our nature through his power.
Comment on May 11th, 2007.
all of humanity?? how does that square with the great white throne judgment?
Comment on May 12th, 2007.
Take a breath Anny. Yes, all of humanity. Remember he is the ‘propitiation for all of our sins, and not only ours only but the whole world,’ as the apostle John would say.
That doesn’t mean Gregory, John, or I believe in universalism. However, we can certainly hope and pray that all are saved can we not?
Comment on May 12th, 2007.
the two don’t add up. how can you wish for something that scripture plainly makes clear is not truth. and are you serious!! that you have actually personally prayed for something that is opposite of revealed truth in scripture?? there is or is not a great white throne judgment. not maybe there will be depending on our wish and prayer. when i read your judas journal again now i can see why your church authority has such problems by wishing and praying!! for something that is not truth. ask any true believer no matter their church affiliation and they will tell you that such a wish and prayer is not only silly but also not in keeping with God’s revealed truth.
Comment on May 12th, 2007.
Anny,
Breathe my friend, breathe. Yes, there is a Great White throne judgment. Yes, there is a hell. Yes, it will be populated. Yes, salvation is only in Jesus Christ who said, ‘I am the way, the truth and the life, no one comes to the Father but by me.’
And yes, we can still hope and pray that God will save everyone. Is that not God’s desire? ‘That all should be saved and come to repentance?’ Is not salvation in Jesus that all-encompassing?
Comment on May 13th, 2007.
The record of the faithful is clear; they remain for us even still, as a great cloud of witnesses!
“That the saints may enjoy their beatitude and the grace of God more abundantly, they are permitted to see the punishment of the damned in Hell.”
-Thomas Aquinas
“The sight of hell torments will exalt the happiness of the saints forever. . .Can the believing Father in Heaven be happy with his unbelieving children in Hell. . . I tell you, yea! Such will be His sense of justice that it will increase rather than diminish his bliss.”
-Jonathan Edwards
“What bliss will fill the ransomed souls, when they in glory dwell, to see the sinner as he rolls, in quenchless flames of hell.”
-Isaac Watts
“There are babies a span long in hell.”
-John Calvin
“When thou diest, thy soul will be tormented alone; that will be a hell for it, but at the day of judgment thy body will join thy soul, and then thou wilt have twin hells, thy soul sweating drops of blood, and thy body suffused with agony. In fire exactly like that which we have on earth thy body will lie, asbestos-like, forever unconsumed, all thy veins roads for the feet of pain to travel on, every nerve a string on which the devil shall forever play his diabolical tune of ‘Hell’s Unutterable Lament.’”
-C. H. Spurgeon
Comment on May 14th, 2007.
Did I say there was no hell?
“There are babies a span long in hell.”
-John Calvin
Calvin was kinda twisted, no?
Comment on May 16th, 2007.
i don’t see how it’s twisted to call a spade a spade. another way of saying the same thing is that he (calvin) spoke the truth of the *whole* gospel. wishing, praying, hoping, whatever you want to call it, won’t make a difference. you said it yourself, hell will be populated, so why waste your energy on something that won’t, can’t, come to pass. i find it almost laughable that a person would say we should pray and hope for an outcome that the same person doesn’t believe can or will happen. so who’s really twisted?
Comment on May 16th, 2007.
Babies in hell is the ‘whole truth?’ How can you be so sure of something that the Scripture is ambiguous about? I think we’re all a bit twisted don’t you? None of our doctrine is perfect, not even yours Anny!
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