Re: Psalm 7: EBTC Insights

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Mon, 17 Aug 2026 18:40:43 +0000,
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  Mitchell Holman <[email protected]> wrote:
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> Christ Rose <[email protected]> wrote in news:e43fac83-c60e-48d7-
> [email protected]:
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>> Mon, 17 Aug 2026 02:34:59 +0000,
>>    <[email protected]>
>>    Mitchell Holman <[email protected]> wrote:
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>>> Christ Rose <[email protected]> wrote in
>>> news:[email protected]:
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>>>> Sat, 15 Aug 2026 15:36:11 GMT,
>>>>     <LH%[email protected]>
>>>>     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
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>>>>> 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.
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>>>>
>>>> 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).
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>>>
>>>       What about those millions who lived
>>> and died never hearing about Jesus.
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>>>       Eternal damnation?
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
>>
> 
> 
>      Ex post facto laws.
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>      What you did was legal when you did it,
> later condemned, with no notice to you, so
> you are at fault for not obeying it.
> 
>      Divine Justice, 101


Since God's power and divine nature are plainly visible through what He 
created, people are held accountable because they actively suppress that 
truth, not because they lacked notice. It is therefore not an "ex post 
facto" law.

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