From: "Wm. Taylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
My fellow TTers,
I don't think it is as cut and dried as some of you
are suggesting.
I am aware of what was said concerning Judas. I
believe those Words
ask of us an interpretive task: How do we reconcile
the limited things
we know about the Judas event with the greater
narrative of Christ?
jt: How does one misinterpret "the
son of perdition?" We are told in
Hebrews 12:27 that Esau who did
something similar found no place
of repentance though he sought it
with tears.
In my mind it still goes back to Christ, Who do you
say that he is?
Is Christ's calling of Judas greater than Judas'
betrayal?
jt: Many are called, but few are
chosen. Let's not put our own
preferences into the
text. Letting God be God is not proof
texting.
Maybe these questions are bigger than proof texting
can adequately
address. I'm glad I peaked your interest. A really
satisfying study on
this very subject is Ray S. Anderson, The
Gospel According to Judas:
Is There a Limit so God's Forgiveness?
(Pasadena: Fuller Seminary, 1994).
jt: Not when we humble ourselves,
come to the throne of grace, and
ask him to forgive us in Jesus name.
However, forgiveness is a gift
which we have no record that Judas
ever received.
The bottom line as I see it is this: There is no
good reason for not
believing in Jesus Christ. Yet for no good reason
some will refuse to believe.
And they may go to hell who refuse him. But
we ought not point to God for
this. The only way humans can perhaps change the
destiny provided them
in Christ's finished and perfected work, is to
finally refuse their adoption in
Christ. This grounds reprobation not in God's will
but in our own. This
"mystery of iniquity" does not originate from
above; it finds its source
and ground down here, somewhere close I fear,
somewhere very close
to home.
jt: Or in the second
heaven.
judyt God allows the devil to raise up heretics to make his people study
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