It is really sad that Bill says I can't be saved
unless I accept his kind of orthodoxy.
No, Bill is using the Bible to correct you, and to exhort you to
change your mind, Judy. You want to spiritualize the Seed doctrine, when the
Scriptures tell you that Jesus is the Seed of David according to
flesh. And if it is according to the flesh that Christ was born, and this
of David's seed, then what flesh do you think John is speaking of when he
ascribes the spirit of antichrist to those who deny it? I am not making a
bigger deal of this than I ought, Judy. I want you to have every opportunity
to know and understand the error of your doctrine, because, believe it or not,
it does make a difference how you answer the question: "Who do you say that I
am?"
Please don't let your disdain for people (and this your elder brothers in
Christ) cloud your ability to affirm truth when it is presented to you.
You know God juxtaposes the two kinds of seed in
Genesis 3:15. I wonder whose loins the seed of
the adversary came through, according to
Bill.
They (feminine plural) came through the loins of Adam, just as did
every human being who came after him. All that Adam was capable of producing
after his fall and subsequent removal from the Garden was human beings
destined to die. Yet for some reason the first fallen words out of his
mouth -- that is, after their encounter with God -- were ones which
changed his wife's name from "Woman," the one who had been made from his
flesh, etc., to "Eve," the mother of all who live. Judy, if Jesus is not of
Eve's blood then she is not his mother. Her flesh is not his
flesh and her "Seed" (masculine singular) does not reach him. The truth is,
however, that it does! Adam was privy to something that you deny. He
calls her the mother of all the living. Something was going to spring from her
womb that was going to justify life for all life. Follow the Seed promised to
Eve throughout the Old Testament and you will discover an amazing story. Let
that Seed pass through Seth, and Noah, and Abraham, and Jacob, and Judah, and
David, and let it find fulfillment in the womb of Mary, and you will begin to
realize the promise. But spiritualize it into abstraction and you could end up
missing it all.
Bill
