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What Does Christ’s Mediation Accomplish?

Layman

Layman

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1 Timothy 2:5 - For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus

If Christ is mediating for all men, what exactly does His mediation accomplish if some men will remain lost?
 
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Paleouss

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Layman said:
1 Timothy 2:5 - For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus

If Christ is mediating for all men, what exactly does His mediation accomplish if some men will remain lost?
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This is a tough question Layman. To be transparent, I'll have to meditate, pray and study to find the wisdom to this question.

Going on my first blush response. If this verse is intended to mean 'all men' when it says "God and men" (as you have interpreted it to intended through your question). Then I would say that Christ is the mediator in the sense that the standard is "faith and belief". Christ took on the power of sin and fulfilled the Law so that the standard would be "faith" or the "Law" (your choice).

In other words, Christ now stands as mediator between God and men and advocates the standard of faith and belief. This is apposed to simply a default of the Law in which we are all condemned already.

Peace to you brother.
 
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Brightfame52

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Layman said:
1 Timothy 2:5 - For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus

If Christ is mediating for all men, what exactly does His mediation accomplish if some men will remain lost?
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The sure conversion and application of New Covenant Blessings on the Elect. Remember He is the Mediator of the New Covenant for a elect chosen people and not all mankind. Heb 8:6-12

6 But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises.

7 For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second.

8 For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah:

9 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord.

10 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:

11 And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest.

12 For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.

So when you see He is Mediator in 1 Tim 2:5 its referring to Him as Mediator of the New Covenant for the benefit of the Spiritual house of Israel, comprised of all kinds of people without distinction. So His Mediatorship is restricted to a elect people.
 
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