Benjamin Breckenridge Warfield (1851-1921)
Posted on 02/23/2015 5:41:49 PM PST by RnMomof7
“The saying is trustworthy and deserving of full acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am the foremost.” – 1 Timothy 1:15
Benjamin Breckenridge Warfield (1851-1921)
“Christ Jesus came to save sinners.
Not, then, merely to prepare salvation for them; to open to them a pathway to salvation; to remove the obstacles in the way of their salvation; to proclaim as a teacher a way of salvation; to introduce as a ruler conditions of life in which clean living becomes for the first time possible; to bring motives to holy action to bear upon us; to break down our enmity to God by an exhibition of His seeking love; to manifest to us what sin is in the sight of God, and how He will visit it with His displeasure. All these things He undoubtedly does. But all these things together touch but the circumference of His work for man. Under no interpretation of the nature or reach of His work can it be truly said that Christ Jesus came to do these things. For that we must penetrate deeper, and say with the primitive Church, in this faithful saying commended to us by the apostle, that Christ Jesus came to save sinners.
We must take the great declaration in the height and depth of its tremendous meaning. Jesus did all that is included in the great word ‘save.’ He did not come to induce us to save ourselves, or to help us to save ourselves, or to enable us to save ourselves. He came to save us. And it is therefore that His name was called Jesus—because He should save His people from their sins. The glory of our Lord, surpassing all His other glories to usward, is just that He is our actual and complete Saviour; our Saviour to the uttermost. Our knowledge, even though it be His gift to us as our Prophet, is not our saviour, be it as wide and as deep and as high as it is possible to conceive. The Church, though it be His gift to us as our King, is not our saviour, be it as holy and true as it becomes the Church, the bride of the Lamb, to be. The reorganized society in which He has placed us, though it be the product of His holy rule over the redeemed earth, is not our saviour, be it the new Jerusalem itself, clothed in its beauty and descended from heaven.
Nay, let us cut more deeply still. Our faith itself, though it be the bond of our union with Christ through which we receive all His blessings, is not our saviour. We have but one Saviour; and that one Saviour is Jesus Christ our Lord. Nothing that we are and nothing that we can do enters in the slightest measure into the ground of our acceptance with God. Jesus did it all. And by doing it all He has become in the fullest and widest and deepest sense the word can bear—our Saviour. For this end did He come into the world—to save sinners; and nothing short of the actual and complete saving of sinners will satisfy the account of His work given by His own lips and repeated from them by all His apostles.
It is in this great fact, indeed, that there lies the whole essence of the gospel. For let us never forget that the gospel is not good advice, but good news. It does not come to us to make known to us what we must do to earn salvation for ourselves, but proclaiming to us what Jesus has done to save us. It is salvation, a completed salvation, that it announces to us; and the burden of its message is just the words of our text—that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners.”
Mexicans name their kids Jesus, but they pronounce it ‘Hey-seuss’.
They do it because they know we’d kick their butts.
Numbers do NOT make right.
“Jesus Christ was born in order to found the Catholic Church, which exists to dispense his grace to mankind through the ordinary means of his sacraments.”
That statement is grossly ignorant of what the Holy Scriptures reveal.
The Church is the body of Christ - those that believe he is the son of God and died for their sins. The Church is not institution set up by mankind.
For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ. For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.
When Sinead O’Connor appeared on Saturday Night Live and tore the photo of the Pope, very few people understood.
There were protests of her music that included having a “steam roller” running over a collection of her CD’s.
She was protesting the Catholics silence on the sexual abuse that was being covered up by the Church.
She later was Ordained ?
Strange bedfellows indeed.
Say what you may about Sinead O’Connor, but she is no fool.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zISrjcxAiXg
Actually, Jesus Christ was born so that Mary could be the Mother of God, the Mother of All Christians, Queen of the Angels, and Mediatrix of All Graces.
Sorry but no cigar, again...Jesus himself hands out his own grace...And not by adhering to the sacraments of some cult, but FREELY, TO ALL MEN/WOMEN...
Do you know how Christians know that??? Because the scripture specifically tells us so...That means your Church is lying when it spews that nonsense...
Joh 1:17 For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.
Tit_2:11 For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men,
That's ALL MEN, not just those who have membership in your religion...
Eph 2:8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
Eph 2:9 Not of works, lest any man should boast.
Joh 1:9 That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.
Jesus dispenses grace...NOT Mary...NOT your religion...
The summit of the sacraments is the Eucharist, in which we consume the body and blood of Jesus Christ.
Act_15:29 That ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication: from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well.
The principal effect of the sacrament is the strengthening of charity. Charity is the very Form or Nature of God.
I.e., by receiving the Eucharist we become divinized, sharing in the divine nature.
HaHaHa...You eat the divine nature and then become the divine nature...You are what you eat, eh???
You don't agree with Saint Augustine and several other Father of the Church? They used almost those exact words.
You are a deeper theological mind than Augustine?
Jesus was never here. Jesus is a metaphor. The entire story of Jesus in the new testament, from Matthew to Revelation is a profoundly important work on the world, and an incredibly important story. It’s got important knowledge, and understanding woven into the story, but you have to know how to read it.
The Jesuit theologians, Priests, and Cardinals etc. all understand that the story of the bible is a metaphor. It is all Astro-Theology.
You are a deeper theological mind than Augustine?
It doesn't take a deep theological mind to believe and understand scripture...
So who taught you that anyway??? God, or Satan???
Eph 3:4 Whereby, when ye read, ye may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ)
It would behoove you intellectual giants to do a little bible study on the words understand and understanding...
Thank you for telling me that...I sure was fooled...
Jesus is a metaphor for the sun , and the 12 disciples are the 12 signs of the zodiac. The sun is reborn every year on Dec 25th when it stops at it’s lowest point in the sky and remains there for 3 days under the southern cross (crux) constellation. After 3 days it moves 1 degree north (the resurrection) and at easter, when the day is longer for the first time than the night, we then celebrate the resurrection of Christ due to the movement of the sun.
The 12 disciples (zodiac signs) are all fishermen (Pisces), water carriers (Aquarius), goat herders (Sagittarius), the herd themselves (Capricorn), etc..
While I can certainly agree with that, in light of the topic, I believe He came to die, to seek and save those who were lost. Now, my feeling is, that mankind was originally created, to fill the ranks of the fallen Angels, as you say, but also to resolve the angelic conflict, once and for all. God was going to show Satan 🐍 and all of creation, that there would always be people who would choose to follow God, no matter what their circumstances. Have you considered my servant Job, comes to mind. Now, 2/3 of the Angels remained faithful to God. 😇 The human race will not be as lucky. My feeling is, the vast majority of humans will end up in the lake that burns. 🔥 Many of them belong to spurious religions, 🎱 so we have to preach the truth. 😇😏😑
AMPU and SR, your thoughts? I know you guys have more education than I do. 👍
Amen! Warfield is one of my favorites!
I guess when Gabrial blows his horn, we will know for sure, won’t we?
Hmmmm...you would think Jesus would have SAID all that as long as He was here and all. Funny how He didn’t.
Well right now nearly two billion people are Muslims, so “sharing an opinion” is hardly proof of believing the TRUTH!
It’s funny how he never said that everything he taught was to be transmitted ONLY in writing, either.
“The saying is trustworthy and deserving of full acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am the foremost.”
1 Timothy 1:15
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