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Supralapsarianism...the unassailable logic
The One God, the Triune God, purposed in the conception of the created order...and prior to its inception...that specific individual persons, both angelic and human, would be appointed to the facilitation of darkness…and that light was never intended nor appointed to be their final estate.
For so it seemed good in His sight.
He has the right...Who can deny it?
Jesus Christ was the lamb slain from before the foundation of the world (creation). The extent of this efficacious scope was necessary, being required for Adam...the first man whom God created out of the dust of the earth.
Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you, - [1 Peter 1:20]
And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world - [Rev 13:8]
The first man Adam was made out of the dust of the earth...where the scripture below reads “of the same lump”...it can only be in reference to that dust (clay) of which God used to fashion Adam, or, alternatively, of Adam himself after God breathed life into him, at which point Adam became a living soul (there are no other alternatives).
In either case, the fact that the scope of the blood of Jesus Christ was envisaged to be efficacious from before the foundation of the world establishes that Adam was the intended beneficiary.
That Adam walked and conversed with God in the Garden of Eden, prior to Eve being created, establishes that the clay being referenced “of the same lump” (being Adam) is envisaged in a state of innocence without sin. This position of innocence or neutrality is logically sustainable on the grounds that the divergence into two distinctive descriptors (honour and dishonour) proceed from a single common source.
Hence the logical necessity is unavoidable that the decree of God appointing individual persons, in their final estate, to either election (light) or reprobation (darkness) is prior to the fall of man into sin, and therefore based solely on His sovereign will and good pleasure to glorify His name, in the creation, through the interplay of light and darkness...and so it seemed good in His sight.
Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour? What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction: And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory - [Romans 9:21-23]
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Supralapsarianism...the unassailable logic
The One God, the Triune God, purposed in the conception of the created order...and prior to its inception...that specific individual persons, both angelic and human, would be appointed to the facilitation of darkness…and that light was never intended nor appointed to be their final estate.
For so it seemed good in His sight.
He has the right...Who can deny it?
Jesus Christ was the lamb slain from before the foundation of the world (creation). The extent of this efficacious scope was necessary, being required for Adam...the first man whom God created out of the dust of the earth.
Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you, - [1 Peter 1:20]
And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world - [Rev 13:8]
The first man Adam was made out of the dust of the earth...where the scripture below reads “of the same lump”...it can only be in reference to that dust (clay) of which God used to fashion Adam, or, alternatively, of Adam himself after God breathed life into him, at which point Adam became a living soul (there are no other alternatives).
In either case, the fact that the scope of the blood of Jesus Christ was envisaged to be efficacious from before the foundation of the world establishes that Adam was the intended beneficiary.
That Adam walked and conversed with God in the Garden of Eden, prior to Eve being created, establishes that the clay being referenced “of the same lump” (being Adam) is envisaged in a state of innocence without sin. This position of innocence or neutrality is logically sustainable on the grounds that the divergence into two distinctive descriptors (honour and dishonour) proceed from a single common source.
Hence the logical necessity is unavoidable that the decree of God appointing individual persons, in their final estate, to either election (light) or reprobation (darkness) is prior to the fall of man into sin, and therefore based solely on His sovereign will and good pleasure to glorify His name, in the creation, through the interplay of light and darkness...and so it seemed good in His sight.
Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour? What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction: And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory - [Romans 9:21-23]
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