Those who believe that “good works” can atone for sin, do not understand how thoroughly corrupt human nature is and how utterly holy God is.
And more importantly, there is a failure to understand that the offended God, requires the shedding of blood (which is the life of the body) to cover sin.
In a nutshell, sin is much more serious to God than it is to us.
Glory to His name, however, He provided the world a perfect Lamb to take our judgment, purchase our pardon, and ascend triumphant to represent us before God.
I so hope this news about Erin is true and that she did in fact, receive forgiveness of sin and eternal life through the Lord Jesus Christ.
[[Those who believe that “good works” can atone for sin, do not understand how thoroughly corrupt human nature is and how utterly holy God is.]]
Precisely- Our ‘good works’ are ‘filthy rags’ compared to His Holiness- and His Holiness demands that we be washed clean- Sin can not exist in the same realm as His complete Holiness- that is why Satan was cast out-
[[In a nutshell, sin is much more serious to God than it is to us.]]
Exactly right- As THE Moral Agent of justice and truth and Holiness- God MUST punish sinners Objectively because to not do so means He then becomes a subjective judge- Being a judge carries with it a huge responsibility to be objective and fair to all- when you start handing out favors subjectively, you are no longer a moral objective judge- and the law has no meaning- (This is exactly what the left are trying to do to all our objective laws today- undermine them so that criminals are protected, while their victims have to suffer further)
God has been very very lenient and compassionate in offering us Salvation through the death of His Son- what a tremendous gift He gave His life for us- Yet there are those who state they will never accept God because ‘He is unfair’ because He ‘condemns people to death’ for ‘seemingly ‘innocent’ crimes’- complain that the punishment doesn’t fit the crime-
The fact is that the person WILLINGLY goes to hell, and when in Hell- the restrainer- ie the Holy Spirit- is no longer present, and that person becomes even more angry at the Holy righteous God than they were while on earth- The fact is that the unsaved in Hell will continue to reject God-
God isn’t going to force anyone to make a choice to accept Him- They can do so or not do so according to their own wishes, but one thing they can not do when in hell is accuse God of being unfair no more so than a son or daughter who refuses to submit to the will of the parents and lives outside the household and refuses to go in when the door is wide open, can complain that their parent is being unfair to them- The offer is there to join in the family activities- but the CHOICE is the sole responsibility of the one on the outside to humbly accept
CS Lewis said it well- In His book The Great Divorce- He wrote about what would happen if demons were given the chance to live in heaven- In His book- He explained they would decline because they had become so averse to God and Holiness that they wanted nothing to do with His righteousness- They had determined in their hearts to live eternity without Him- and God obliged them- it was their conscious choice to reject Him and His Holiness- Their choice reflected their conscious decision long ago
John 14:6
Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.