Do you do the deeds of your father? Are you born after Adam or in Christ? Can you call Him Abba? I pray you read and reflect and that the Spirit strips away any ignorance and presses in our hearts that which is true.
I will let you in on a secret. Articles I collect on put on the gleanings of grace site generally follow what I am studying and write in the Word of the Day. To see more on Limited Atonement or additional reading on “IF YOU BELIEVE THAT” God died for everyone (click here) there is a good post by Don Bell a preacher from Tenn.
Jhn 8:41 Ye do the deeds of your father. Then said they to him, We be not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God.
Jhn 8:42 Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father, ye would love me: for I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of myself, but he sent me.
- What deeds did they do?
- What or who where they referring to in not being born of fornication?
“It doesn’t really matter what you believe, we all worship the same god.” This is just one of the falsehoods perpetrated by many Christians today. I do not wish to imply that any privilege comes from belonging to any specific Church denomination or belief in a certain physical act such as baptism deserves reward. Do not take away from this that understanding or your doctrine beliefs places a man on a higher plain than others. I also do not wish to allow, without remark, sorrow to those faithfully continuing in the false belief of a universal fatherhood. To believe that all people are God’s children cannot be supported by scripture. The gospel says when there is no love to Christ; there is no sonship to God (Eph 6:24). God has His people and they SHALL come to Him. And them alone will rise up and call Him Abba (Gal 4:6).
A.W. Pink as usual says it much better than I “(We have one Father, even God.) How this same claim is being made on every side today! Those in far-distant lands may be heathen; but America is a Christian country. Such is the view which is held by the great majority of church members. The universal Fatherhood of God and the universal brotherhood of man are the favorite dogmas of Christendom: (We have one Father, even God) is the belief and boast of the great religious masses. How this justifies our opening remark, that the passage before us is not to be limited to a conversation which took place nineteen hundred years ago, but also contains a representation of human nature as it exists today, manifesting the same spirit of self-righteousness, appealing to the same false ground of confidence, and displaying the same enmity against the Christ of God.”
