Tuesday, June 29, 2010

The Drowning Man

This is an excerpt from the article linked below.  It is well worth the very short read,  SDG

http://www.monergism.com/thethreshold/articles/onsite/drowningman2.html

"The Bible plainly teaches that God would be perfectly just if he saved no one. Any good gift we have is better than we deserve, and is granted by sheer mercy, in spite of ourselves. We are not His children by nature (Eph 2:3) but are adopted as children by grace. God is in no way obligated to to cancel anyone's debt, but because He is loving and merciful Jesus paid the debt by absorbing the full wrath of God for those He came to save and applied salvation to them according to His sovereign good pleasure (Eph 1:4, 5). To those who are His children (Rom 9:7-8; Gen 21:10), He will do whatever it takes to make sure they are delivered from the jaws of death." - John Hendryx