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Nathan Bickel has left a new comment on your post "Hebrews
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Ichabod -
I think that the picture with Christ on the Cross with the Hebrews 10:38-39 Scripture more or less exposes and destroys the whole falsehood of universal objective justification.
UOJ (universal objective justification) is not only based upon going hog wild over Christ's Atonement. It over emphasizes the Atonement at the expense of Scripture's teaching about the Holy Spirit's work of the "new birth," - conversion. [John 3:1-21 - in context]
But, be that as it may, another form of UOJ is basically based upon the false notion of "sovereign immunity," - that being, that God's Ten Commandment laws no longer apply to Christians, since Christians [supposedly] cannot (genuinely) "sin."
This incorrect and damning "sovereign immunity" doctrine is sometimes [now] labeled “freedom in Christ,” because it is purported that the Christian is "no longer 'under the law.'"
"Sovereign Immunity's" (comparative) analogy is found in the modern day scenario of a diplomat upon foreign soil. Should the diplomat commit a crime that is either punishable by fine; temporary incarceration; life in prison; or, the death penalty, - that diplomat is (therefore) immune to the penalty because he is not on his native soil but upon another's "foreign" soil, and is under immunity protection. And, as the destructive analogy plays out; since the Christian is [actually] living in the heavenlies [Colossians 3:1-2] what transpires here on earth, is therefore inconsequential and is "covered" by the Atonement and the new creation [new man] "immunity."
Finally, I believe that all forms of universalism are heresy - including "universal objective justification" and the one I described above - "sovereign immunity" ["can't sin]. They all can be lumped together under the major heresy category of Antinomianism. And, who initiated that description? None other than Luther, who correctly taught Scripture's chief doctrine of God's grace and justification by faith alone! [Ephesians 2:8-9]
Nathan M. Bickel
www.thechristianmessage.org
www.moralmatters.org
Ichabod -
I think that the picture with Christ on the Cross with the Hebrews 10:38-39 Scripture more or less exposes and destroys the whole falsehood of universal objective justification.
UOJ (universal objective justification) is not only based upon going hog wild over Christ's Atonement. It over emphasizes the Atonement at the expense of Scripture's teaching about the Holy Spirit's work of the "new birth," - conversion. [John 3:1-21 - in context]
But, be that as it may, another form of UOJ is basically based upon the false notion of "sovereign immunity," - that being, that God's Ten Commandment laws no longer apply to Christians, since Christians [supposedly] cannot (genuinely) "sin."
This incorrect and damning "sovereign immunity" doctrine is sometimes [now] labeled “freedom in Christ,” because it is purported that the Christian is "no longer 'under the law.'"
"Sovereign Immunity's" (comparative) analogy is found in the modern day scenario of a diplomat upon foreign soil. Should the diplomat commit a crime that is either punishable by fine; temporary incarceration; life in prison; or, the death penalty, - that diplomat is (therefore) immune to the penalty because he is not on his native soil but upon another's "foreign" soil, and is under immunity protection. And, as the destructive analogy plays out; since the Christian is [actually] living in the heavenlies [Colossians 3:1-2] what transpires here on earth, is therefore inconsequential and is "covered" by the Atonement and the new creation [new man] "immunity."
Finally, I believe that all forms of universalism are heresy - including "universal objective justification" and the one I described above - "sovereign immunity" ["can't sin]. They all can be lumped together under the major heresy category of Antinomianism. And, who initiated that description? None other than Luther, who correctly taught Scripture's chief doctrine of God's grace and justification by faith alone! [Ephesians 2:8-9]
Nathan M. Bickel
www.thechristianmessage.org
www.moralmatters.org
