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Samuel confronted all excuses by pointing out that 'to obey is better than sacrifice' and disobedience 'is like the sin of divination' and arrogance like 'the evil of idolatry' (verses 22–23), so since Saul rejected the word of God, God now rejected him as king (verse 23), not just that his future dynasty was canceled as previously stated. [24]
The Catholic Church believes that Jesus Christ attained salvation "for all people by his death on the cross, but that some may choose to reject it". [7] It teaches that salvation comes from "God alone", but that the church is the "mother" and "teacher" of the faithful. [ 8 ]
God's mercy is shown to some in both the forgiveness of those guilty of imputed and actual sin and the bestowal of eternal life. On the other hand, God's justice is shown in the permitting of those who are guilty of imputed and actual sin to continue on their chosen path and the bestowal of divine judgment for their unrepentant disobedience.
William Blake's color printing of God Judging Adam original composed in 1795. This print is currently held by the Tate Collection. [66] In the biblical story, God's judgement results in the fall of man. The fall of man has been depicted many times in art, including in Albrecht Dürer's Adam and Eve (1504) and Titian's The Fall of Man (c. 1550 ...
For Barth, God elects Christ as rejected and chosen man. Individual people are not the subjects of election, but are elected or rejected by virtue of their being in Christ. [27] Interpreters of Barth such as Shirley Guthrie have called this a "Trinitarian" as opposed to a "speculative" view of predestination. According to Guthrie, God freely ...
Christian deists who do not believe in Jesus as the son of God strongly reject any theories of atonement. Different theories receive different levels of rejection, the strongest rejection being reserved for the theory of penal substitution , that claims that Jesus had to die as a sacrifice to pay the "death penalty" for humankind and save them ...
After God's dethronement as the subject of history, the question rebounds to the new subject of history: the human being. As a consequence, theodicy becomes anthropodicy – justifications of our faith in humanity as the subject of history, in the face of the suffering that is so inextricably woven into the history that humanity makes.
Warfare represents a special category of biblical violence and is a topic the Bible addresses, directly and indirectly, in four ways: there are verses that support pacifism, and verses that support non-resistance; 4th century theologian Augustine found the basis of just war in the Bible, and preventive war which is sometimes called crusade has also been supported using Bible texts.