by David A. DePra
| PROCLAMATIONS
OF FAITH |
by David A. DePra |
| Regarding the Redemption: |
| A just God cannot forgive unless He has a just |
| reason for doing so. God found that reason in His |
| Son. |
| Christ did not die to deliver us from punishment. He |
| died to deliver us from sin. |
| God does not revoke death from us because of |
| Christ. He provides a means whereby our old man |
| can meet death, and be raised a new creation in |
| Christ Jesus. |
| Death is not God's punishment for sin. Death is the |
| result of sin. Sin kills, not God. |
| Sin kills BECAUSE it is against God. This must be so |
| if God is God. |
| All sin is against God and results in death because, |
| by definition, sin is rebellion against Life Himself. |
| God never blames us for being born in Adam. But |
| once we see the Truth in Christ, we are fully |
| responsible for believing and embracing it. |
| The unpardonable sin is not an act of sin. It is the |
| refusal of deliverance from sin. The one sin God |
| cannot forgive is the refusal of His forgiveness. |
| Jesus did not die to appease God. He died to |
| deliver man. |
| If Jesus' death is an appeasement of God, then God |
| so loved the world that He gave His only begotten |
| Son to appease His own anger towards the world. |
| There is no sin which the Redemption cannot fully |
| redeem, and no sinner who cannot be fully restored. |
| Anything short of that and it means that Jesus did |
| not pay the full price for sin. |
| There is absolutely nothing I can do to add to the |
| finality of God's forgiveness, nor subtract from it. I |
| must simply believe and embrace it. |
| When Jesus died, "Adam" died, and MY sin with him. |