Today, the reply is on Creation, divine grace, and revelation. A fighter in the “Yahoo! Answers” public forum on Religion and Spirituality, who uses the ID “wandycakes” (Level 3 with 1,035 points, a member since August 04, 2009) posted the following:
Why
do religious people think they deserve a God?
THE
GOLDEN ARROW: Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with
God through our Lord Jesus Christ: By whom also we have access by
faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the
glory of God. And not only so, but we glory in tribulations
also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience; And patience,
experience; and experience, hope: And hope maketh not ashamed;
because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy
Ghost which is given unto us. For when we were yet without strength,
in due time Christ died for the ungodly. (Romans 5: 1-6, King James
Version, KJV)
THE
DOUBLE DAGGER: Who Deserves Divine Love? (06/23/2017); Forgiveness,
Grace and Merit (06/22/2017); Only GOD Is Good? (05/03/2017);
Operations of Christian Faith (04/28/2017); Tools for Revelation?
(10/26/2015); Grace is Not Against Law (07/23/2014); Cruel and
Offensive (07/24/2014); The Benefit of Grace (03/19/2013); Magical
Resurrection? (03/20/2013)
“wandycakes”,
sharing with you an answer that many mature Christian believers might
find acceptable, here are some points regarding mankind’s
relationship (i.e., continuing communication, exchange, and
interaction) with divinity:
1.
GOD is the origin of everything that has existence and life.
Through divine grace (we also say, unmerited favor), angels and
mankind as well as other created beings and living creatures all have
been called forth, emanated or fashioned, and placed within multiple
spheres of life (e.g., heaven, earth, the land, the sea) having the
aspects of consciousness and self-will. Along with the frameworks of
time and space, the living are to respond to divine order and sacred
law that generate specific opportunities, possibilities, and sacred
operations that include aging, birth, death, discovery, gradual
growth, judgment, learning, suffering, and unselfish service to GOD.
2.
The many divine acts of carnal, material, and spiritual creation all
have been expressions of the character, makeup, nature, eternal
purpose, and sovereign will of divinity. Similarly, the divine acts
and sacred events (e.g., atonement, forgiveness, Incarnation,
miracles, proclamation, prophecy, resurrection of the dead,
salvation) that make GOD knowable, known, accessible, and
approachable (we say, revelation) are provided to establish the
completeness and integrity that serves as personhood within the
living.
3.
Divine gifts and tools have been bestowed upon the living
that include covenant relationship, deliverance, life essence
(we also say, breath; spirit; word), priesthood, sacred knowledge,
and secular knowledge. Through operations of the Holy
Spirit men also are to receive a fresh endowment of spirit substance
from GOD (we say, fire baptism and rebirth) and exist containing
inseparable aspects of the divine makeup such as faith, holiness,
longsuffering, lovingkindness, oneness without sameness,
wisdom, and wrath against sin.)
There
is far more that should be said, correctly examined, and spiritually
apprehended. (For example, 4. Consider the following that uses
language from the Bible: Ephesians 2: 4-10, King James Version
(KJV): 4 But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith
he loved us, 5 Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us
together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;) 6 And hath raised us
up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places
in Christ Jesus: 7 That in the ages to come he might shew the
exceeding riches of his grace in his
kindness toward us through Christ Jesus. 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. 10 For we are his workmanship,
created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before
ordained that we should walk in them.) Even so, I trust this
fragment will be useful. Be it unto you according to your faith.
THE
BLACK PHOENIX
Washington,
DC
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