Posted on 12/25/2021 12:26:26 PM PST by Faith Presses On
Hallelujah! Glory be to God!
As we remember and rejoice at the birth of Christ the King of Kings in Bethlehem, we also know that through God's gift of His Son for the world, we are born again, spiritually. And today, and every day, people who don't know God and are His enemies are being born anew through the work of the Holy Spirit.
"Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men!"
Tried witnessing to a mussie and he said: why should he be held responsible for something someone did thousands of years ago? How do you answer that?
What is he referring to?
1 Corinthians 1:21
21st Century King James Version
21 For since, in the wisdom of God, the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save those who believe.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Corinthians+1%3A21&version=KJ21
Ephesians 2:8-9
King James Version
8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
9 Not of works, lest any man should boast.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ephesians%202%3A8-9&version=KJV
Hebrews 1:3
King James Version
3 Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high:
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Hebrews%201%3A3&version=KJV
Eve and Adam ✝️🙏🛐
Tell him we’re all sinners
Because we are
1. Original Sin/the Fall
2. Our own personal sin(s)
3. God’s remedy of these through the atoning death of his Son and God’s grace.
If you can explain these simply to him as you understand them, it will clear up some of his misperceptions and remove some roadblocks.
His death and resurrection were so we could be reborn
Yes, it’s God’s gift of His Son for the world. Of course part of that is the Incarnation, His humbling Himself to take on the form of man, to be born a helpless baby to poor parents, and to live among us, teach us and lead us. It was sacrifice for Christ to be among us, the sinners that we are, in this sin-cursed world. I hope you understand I wasn’t taken anything away from His actual death and resurrection, that part of it, only drawing attention to the miracles of birth, natural and spiritual, since it is Christmas.
He's held responsible for the things he's doing today.
Adam’s sin against God and we (he) feels why should he be responsible for someone else’s deed?
Can’t use the Bible to show that. It’s a simple question he posed like: would you be responsible for your neighbor who did something unlawful?
He understands the law; he wants to know why should he pay a penalty for someone who did something four or five thousand years ago.
But his question is invalid.
He fails to recognize his own sin and claims to be suffering for something someone else did
By Adam, sin entered the world, and we are sinful not just because we sin, but because of our inherited sinful nature.
The question to ask him is if he has done something that he knows is wrong. He is responsible for those sins and not the sin of Adam.
The penalty for that is mortality. He has already paid that penalty, just like everyone else on the planet.
You have to look at it from his perspective.
He just sees it as social perspective not a Biblical perspective; you can’t put a cookie jar in front of a couple of kids and tell them if you eat any of them you’ll die. There was no example of death so how could they believe what some snake was telling them?
You have to look at it from his perspective. What is the definition of sin? What’s the entomology of that word? He’s outside of the Biblical perspective.
“The penalty for that is mortality.”
I’m not sure if it is Biblical, but in my view the “lest you die” is because of God’s grace. In the beginning Adam and Eve were to live with God forever.
Once they sinned that was undone. But thankfully we AREN’T immortal, and can one day be fully reunited with God in heaven.
Our pastor said something about original sin, etc. Something like “Even if Adam and Eve hadn’t sinned, and none of my relatives did, I know that I would have come up with my sins all on my own and need a Savior.”
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