The Scriptures will not permit us to believe that because God elected certain people in Christ from all eternity, they have therefore always enjoyed the fullness of His favor in history and that for them there is no translation from wrath to grace in history. The Scriptures take the reality of creation, the historical Fall and history itself with total seriousness and never stress the eternal election of God to such an extent that it reduces to zero significance the reality of creation and creation’s history, which God providentially orders and governs to His own holy ends. To the contrary, though they are eternally loved according to election, until the elect trust Christ as their Saviour, they are actually “by nature children of wrath” (Eph 2:3) and are “separate from Christ, without hope and without God in the world” (Eph 2:12). — Systematic Theology, Robert Reymond, p. 737.
Posted on: Mon, 08 Jul 2013 05:20:55 +0000
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