So that you can have the opportunity to be forgiven and set free!
It depends on your response, to accept this gift of salvation, or reject it and die in your sins!
Where will you spend eternity?
How foolish not to accept the best gift of all!
2006-08-24 13:49:09 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
He took up our infirmities and with His stripes we are healed! He was stricken, smitten of God, He was numbered with the transgressors. He became sin for me in or that I might become the righteousness of God. My sins were imputed to Him, in order that His righteousness was by faith in Him imputed to me. My penalty for my personal sins was imputed to Him so that I by faith in Him alone may stand faultless in front of God, and feel no shame, no guilt, cleansed, whole, complete that I might cry out You are my Father, so that He may cry you are my son!
2006-08-24 14:06:45 · answer #1 · answered by ? 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The Catholic View of Atonement
vs. the Protestant
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By Jim J. McCrea
The Catholic view of atonement differs from the Protestant view.
With the classical Protestant view, purgatory is considered
unnecessary, as well as any suffering on earth. "Jesus took all the
punishment for us" it is said. "He suffered so that we do not have
to."
That is not the Catholic view.
The Catholic view is that we must participate in the sufferings of
Christ to be saved. If we are to be glorified with Him, we must
carry His cross with Him. St. Louis de Montfort said, what kind of a
monster would it be if the head (of the mystical body) were lying on
a bed of thorns, while the members were lying on a bed of feathers.
As the head had suffered, now the members must suffer. For
Catholics, "carrying the cross" means to accept all the sufferings
that God sends in His providence. When Protestants interpret that,
they evade that meaning and hold it to be something different.
How do we explain that if Christ died for our sins, we must still be
punished for them?
That is explained by noting the classical Catholic distinction
between the *eternal* and the *temporal* punishment due to sin. In
the Catholic understanding, Christ paid the eternal penalty of sin,
but we must pay the temporal punishment - or a penalty in time, even
after our sins have been forgiven.
That seems only logical. God is both justice and mercy, and He must
exercise both towards us. In being relieved of the eternal
punishment, He exercises His mercy. In us having to pay a temporal
punishment, He exercises His justice. If we got off scot-free, there
would be no justice in that, for all crime demands punishment by the
very nature of justice. For God to be God, He has to exercise both
mercy and justice.
There is another point as well. Anything positive or negative that
we feel (as reward or punishment), is a profoundly intimate
communication to us about the nature of good and evil respectively.
Pain or pleasure in an intimate contact with evil or good
respectively. Now if Christ paid the whole penalty, and we got off
scot-free, we would have no proper appreciation of His atoning
sacrifice and the evil that He has freed us from. It would be
something entirely abstract to us. But by being given some share in
His punishment on the cross, we are given an intimate understanding
of what He did (by actually feeling some of it), and the evil of sin
that He freed us from (for suffering is simply the effects of sin
experienced in the feelings).
2006-08-24 21:06:43 · answer #2 · answered by Catholic Philosopher 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To: Stuart
Why did Jesus do nothing for you? He did everything for you. Even if something is not going the way you want, it's God's way of saying to be patient. Only He knows what's going to happen, and it may not be what you want to happen.
2006-08-24 20:55:13 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well said!
How wonderful it is to be offered a free gift of salvation and free from the bond of sin and death, due to our own selfishness.
Jesus Christ is certainly my Savior!
2006-08-24 20:51:29 · answer #4 · answered by Mike A 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Yeah, says you and some scrappy book and guys wearing dresses.
Each source is as reliable as a con man.
2006-08-24 20:56:00 · answer #5 · answered by Songbird 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Nope. Your Jesus didn't do a thing for me. You can have your personal touchy-feely thing going on with him if you want to, but I will ask you AGAIN, leave me out of your fantasies, ok?
I think I'm asking nicely. Why do YOU PEOPLE keep pushing this nonsense at me?
Go away. Play nicely somewhere else. Take your imaginary friend with you.
2006-08-24 20:53:23 · answer #6 · answered by Stuart 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Yours is a refreshing question. May you win many people to the Lord Jesus Christ. This is my prayer for you.
2006-08-24 20:57:18 · answer #7 · answered by LARRY S 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
How many rocks are you currently storing in your head?
2006-08-24 23:28:49 · answer #8 · answered by Devil'sadvocate 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
That's what the Trojans said.
2006-08-24 20:54:55 · answer #9 · answered by Grist 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I know huh? Jesus went through so much PHYSICAL and SPIRITUAL PAIN for US. there is no excuse not to believe
2006-08-24 20:51:40 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋