Post by ResLight on Jan 26, 2014 0:13:40 GMT -5
One asked: "Who are the ones that benefit from the ransom? The answer is: Only those that believe or exercise faith." I have had several make similar statements to me at times.
However, according to this statement, there will be no need of a resurrection of the unjustified, but only a resurrection of the justified. As stated, this would mean that billions of mankind, including children, who have not exercised faith in Jesus will not receive any benefit from the ransom sacrifice.
Yet the scriptures say: "there will be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust." (Acts 24:15)
And Jesus also spoke of the resurrection, not only of those who have been justified, and reckoned as alive through faith in him, but that "those who have done evil, to the resurrection of judgment." (John 5:29)
And Jesus also later speaks of those who do not obey as recorded in John 12:47,48: "If anyone listens to my sayings, and doesn't believe, I don't judge him. For I came not to judge the world, but to save the world. He who rejects me, and doesn't receive my sayings, has one who judges him. The word that I spoke, the same will judge him in the last day." In stating that he came to save, deliver, the world, he was, in effect, saying that the sacrifice he was to give covers the world that did not receive him, and that they were to saved, delivered, in the "last day", so that they may be judged individually (not in Adam). (John 1:10,11)
Thus, John 3:36, in saying that the wrath remains upon those who do not believe, Jesus is referring to the condemnation, the judgment, that is already upon man through Adam, not a new judgment or condemnation. It is also evident, by comparing scripture with scripture, that in John 3:36 Jesus is speaking of conditions in this age, not of the age to come. Nor was Jesus saying in John 3:36 that once one does not obey, that such a person can never repent, for many, such as the apostle Paul, who were once disobedient to Jesus have repented, believed, and were thus counted as alive.
However, according to this statement, there will be no need of a resurrection of the unjustified, but only a resurrection of the justified. As stated, this would mean that billions of mankind, including children, who have not exercised faith in Jesus will not receive any benefit from the ransom sacrifice.
Yet the scriptures say: "there will be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust." (Acts 24:15)
And Jesus also spoke of the resurrection, not only of those who have been justified, and reckoned as alive through faith in him, but that "those who have done evil, to the resurrection of judgment." (John 5:29)
And Jesus also later speaks of those who do not obey as recorded in John 12:47,48: "If anyone listens to my sayings, and doesn't believe, I don't judge him. For I came not to judge the world, but to save the world. He who rejects me, and doesn't receive my sayings, has one who judges him. The word that I spoke, the same will judge him in the last day." In stating that he came to save, deliver, the world, he was, in effect, saying that the sacrifice he was to give covers the world that did not receive him, and that they were to saved, delivered, in the "last day", so that they may be judged individually (not in Adam). (John 1:10,11)
Thus, John 3:36, in saying that the wrath remains upon those who do not believe, Jesus is referring to the condemnation, the judgment, that is already upon man through Adam, not a new judgment or condemnation. It is also evident, by comparing scripture with scripture, that in John 3:36 Jesus is speaking of conditions in this age, not of the age to come. Nor was Jesus saying in John 3:36 that once one does not obey, that such a person can never repent, for many, such as the apostle Paul, who were once disobedient to Jesus have repented, believed, and were thus counted as alive.
