Re: Psalm 7: EBTC Insights

Christ Rose <[email protected]> wrote:
>   Mitchell Holman <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Christ Rose <[email protected]> wrote in
> >>    marika <[email protected]> wrote:
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> >>> Christ Rose <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>>> David’s plea of innocence and assertion of contrasting destinies
> >>>> between the righteous and wicked form the theological core of the
> >>>> psalm’s middle section.[1] Significantly, God qualifies as a
> >>>> righteous judge precisely because he penetrates beyond surface
> >>>> appearances—he tests “hearts and kidneys,” knowing both
> >>>> deliberate commitments and hidden visceral dispositions that people
> >>>> conceal from one another.[1
> >>>
> >>> I wish I had this kind of optimism. I don’t live anywhere near
> >>> Ukraine, it’s only august, and I’m already scared to death of
> >>> seeing all the articles this winter about people- especially elderly
> >>> and babies- being found frozen to death in their beds.
> >>
> >>
> >> When you rely on Christ's death and resurrection as the just payment
> >> for our sins, you live forever with God in joy and peace, even after
> >> you die physically. He promises to raise you from the dead in a
> >> glorified body (1 Corinthians 15).
> > 
> > 
> >      What about those millions who lived
> > and died never hearing about Jesus.
> > 
> >      Eternal damnation?
> 
> 
> Romans 1 shows the justice of God in the condemnation of pagans who have 
> never heard about Jesus, because they reject and suppress the knowledge 
> of God that's evident to them in creation.
> 
> They suppress that knowledge with deeds of unrighteousness, by 
> worshiping creation instead of God, etc. Since they did not wish to 
> retain the knowledge of God, He handed them over to their own corruption.
> 
> Thus it is just for God to condemn pagans, even though they did not hear 
> about Christ. The implication seems to be that if they had not rejected 
> the knowledge of God in creation, He would have sent them the gospel.

Millions of pagans beheld creation, and found it self-evident
that Raven had created the world.  Those who do good, they go
to the Happy Hunting Ground.

Those who bet on the wrong deity to get them through the
gates may find it harder than they expected to convince Raven
to let them through the gates.