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Old 10-26-2016, 07:11 PM   #238
Evangelical
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Default Re: What is God's Economy?

You call me a Lee follower yet I know the Bible better than you it seems. According to the Bible, the cure is the purpose. There is a verse which states quite clearly that salvation is God's purpose. I like the NLT because it emphasizes the fact:

2 Timothy 1:9 For God saved us and called us to live a holy life. He did this, not because we deserved it, but because that was his plan from before the beginning of time--to show us his grace through Christ Jesus.

So God's plan was not merely to create some humans in his image, but to show them his grace. To do so, humanity needed to pass through the process of falling, so that God could show His grace.

The verse says God purposed this before the beginning of time. So before Genesis 1:1, before God said "let there bye light" which was when time began, God had purposed for man to be saved by His grace. To achieve that, it was necessary that God create the environment in the Garden of Eden, so that it would happen.

Matthew Henry on this verse says
"The call of the gospel is a holy call, making holy. Salvation is of free grace. This is said to be given us before the world began, that is, in the purpose of God from all eternity; "

Many Christians believe that salvation just means going to heaven when they die. The rest of their life, purpose for existence, and their environment is unrelated to that fact, including going to church, which is just a routine exercise of religious observation. This is the kind of person who does not live according to God's plan, because they don't see that salvation is the very purpose of their existence.
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