Wednesday, November 21, 2018

(11/21/2018) The Revelation of Grace





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 mankinds 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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