Opus 2025-347: Putting It Together

There comes a time when we need to just stop trying to proof text things and start putting it together.  I am in the process of replacing the steering gear on the front of my riding mower.  I have ordered the parts.  I have watched the videos.  I have gone over the parts, examining them, and making sure they’re all there.  I have use my imagination to work through the process of taking apart and putting together.  I have identified some additional things that I have to get.  Sooner or later I’m gonna have to stop thinking about it and do it.

God in terms of power does not have to do anything, and conversely can do anything.

God, in terms of attributes and character, is limited in what He can do.

God, in terms of logical contradiction is limited in what He can do in our understanding.  Yes, it is impossible for Him to make a square a circle in our universe.  There might be a way in which such a thing would exist, but it would be beyond our comprehension.

My assurance of eternal salvation is grounded in the character of God that is demonstrated by grace and the death of Jesus on the cross.  My hope of eternal Life is based on the resurrection of Jesus from the dead.

Those are the bedrock principles presented by the Bible that leads us to hope in the sense of assurance, and eternal life.

Somewhere in this, whether it’s added on or buried in the middle, is also a demand for holy living.  All that living is not something that earns us or salvation, because that would make us responsible for something impossible.  Evil living, on the other hand, can negate the covenant that we have with God.  Faith is required but it is not alone in spite of the Solas.  I did a quick word search on my Bible study Software and the only places I could find the words together were,

(Jas 2:17 KJV)  Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone.

(Jas 2:24 NAS77) You see that a man is justified by works, and not by faith alone.

So get off the mia culpa bandwagon.  It was necessary when you came to the cross but needs to be left behind as you get on with life.  Remember that Paul did not write to the “sinners” but to the “saints”.  Make sure his letters were to you.

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