![]() ![]() My point has been from the beginning that frequently metaphor, figures of speech are used. I think you are playing musical chairs with the definition of spirit and soul, which makes this very confusing. If it includes thought and action, then by definition, a priori, it must come from the psyche. I agree, my point is that all of those emotions and verbs that you list come from the psyche: take action, vigorously desire, driving a man, having zeal. This was to demonstrate His righteousness, because in the forbearance of God He passed over the sins previously committed 26 for the demonstration, I say, of His righteousness at the present time, so that He would be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.”Ģ86 cyrus stirred in spirit. “Being justified as a gift by His grace through the redemption which is in Christ Jesus 25 whom God displayed publicly as a propitiation in His blood through faith. When David, Abraham, Moses, and other Old Testament saints died, they immediately went into the presence of God on the bases of Christ’s shed blood, though yet future. Nevertheless, they were forgiven in anticipation of Christ’s atonement. If he could not be in the presence of sin, we are in big trouble. Saints in the Old Testament did not need a special dispensation. The poor man goes to Abraham’s side, in heaven. The rich man goes to hell, “far away” from Abraham (Luke 16:23). ![]() The poor man dies and is carried by the angels. The rich man is unnamed and forgotten forever. The one who the Pharisees believed was not a good child of Abraham winds up at the closest place of fellowship that there is-Abraham’s bosom. To be at one’s side or bosom represented the closest place of fellowship one could have with another. The poor sick man, who was, in the mind of the Pharisees, a bad Jew, was ushered by the angels to Abraham’s “side” or “bosom.” The idea is not ontological (dealing with a physical place), but relational. In the parable, the rich man, whom all the Pharisees thought was the best Jew with great rewards waiting for him in heaven, found himself in torment in Hell. If you were poor and sick then God was not with you. They believed that being rich and healthy was a sign that God was on your side. In the parable, Christ is confronting the religious leaders’ bad theology. Second, the parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus does not teach that “Abraham’s Bosom” is a separate heaven. He was even carried in the womb of a sinner! Christ, God incarnate, was in the presence of sin the whole time he walked the earth (John 1:14).Obviously the Holy Spirit must be able to be in the presence of sin. ![]() ![]()
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