Recent content by Martin Marprelate

@JonC, I am coming to this thread for the first time. I still don't have time to post much, but I wonder if you would like to define what 'Retributive Justice' is, and why you think that, say, Genesis 38:7-10 isn't it.

Yep!

As usual, you are adding to the Scriptures. Moreover, you do not appear to understand what a propitiation (noun) is. We are the offending party (sinners) We do not need to be propitiated (verb); God does. It is God who set Christ forth as a propitiation (noun) - not to propitiate (verb) us...

None of the six other usages of kosmos in 1 John 2 means 'people.' 1 John 2:15-17. 'Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in Him. For all that is in the world - the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of...

I promised @Silverhair that I would set out my understanding of 1 John 2:1-2, so here goes: 'My Little children, these things I write to you, so that you may not sin. And if anyone sins, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. And He himself is the propitiation for our...

Obviously they were not my words; they were God's. According to you, not me, the LORD was pleased, delighted, contented to bruise or crush the Lord Jesus, and it was His predetermined plan. He took pleasure in the death of the Lord Jesus. I believe that every Christian should meditate on that...

@Ben1445, The examples that will be given are likely to be of 'famous Christians,' but it is in the smaller churches that there are many examples of selfless service. The pastor of my church has recently retired. He does not frequent this board so he will not know if I puff him up a little. He...

I am not quite clear whether you are opposed or in favour of divine healing and opposition to war. But Spurgeon wrote: “To see a soldier a Christian is a joy; to see a Christian a soldier is another matter. We may not judge another man, but we may discourage thoughtless inclinations in the...

One of us is, but I think you'll find it's you. Acts 4:11-12. "'This is the stone which was rejected by you builders, which has become the chief cornerstone.' Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by with we must be saved.' Christ is not...

PLEASE! If you want us to take you seriously, learn to spell senSe. the word only has five letters; it really isn't hard to spell properly but you have misspelt it dozens of time. We all make typos from time to time, but to spell the word wrongly every time you use it is ignorance.

Once again you are adding words to the sacred text. The word 'means' does not appear, and nor does 'only.' The Lord Jesus is not the 'means of appeasing God,' He is the propitiation (yes, it's a noun) of our sins. As I wrote before, I fully agree that Christ is the only way for anyone to be...

He certainly did that, but that was not all He did, was it? 1 Peter 1:18-19. 'Knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible things like silver and gold, from your aimless conduct received by tradition from your fathers, but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish...

Once again, you are confusing the 'whole world' with 'all the people in the world..' You are also conflating 'propitiation' with 'means of salvation.' If God is propitiated in respect of all the people in the world, everyone will be saved. Is that what you believe?

1 John 1:7. '..... And the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all iniquity.' 1 Peter 1:18-19. '... Knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible things like silver or gold, from your aimless conduct received by tradition from your fathers, but with the precious blood of...

You go on about this in almost every post you make - it's a form of virtue signalling that you obviously love - but I think we shall find that it is you who is clinging to your faulty understanding of the text. That is absolutely fine, so long as everyone is aware that the words 'those of' do...