Why Paul? Print | Bookmark (CTRL-D) Jason, There will always be others that will never be convinced of the redemption of the world just as there has always been others who dont believe that people are saved unless they perform. Bro, why Abraham, and not Noah or others? That is something that only God knows. We can come up with all sorts of reasons as to why God picked Abraham, and then we can ask: Why Paul and not Peter, James or John? Werent they all believers also? I have to lean on Romans chapter 11:32-36 where it states: For who has known the mind of the Lord and arent His ways past finding out? Who has given to Him or done for Him that He is obligated to give back? Or as you already know in another passage: Who has the right to ask God: Why did you make me this way? Does the clay have the power to tell the Potter what to do and how to mold it and make it? Jason, I guess that at some point God had to make covenant with someone for the promise. So He chose to do it with Abraham. I believe that God could have chosen anyone. Even a Jackass. :) And you know how many of them are around today? :) Gods timing for doing so probably came during Abrahams parade. If God imputed righteousness to Abraham, there should be no question that God would have done it for everyone before Abraham as he did for everyone after Abraham and under Christ. Abraham and God were friends, and I believe that as friends they had conversation with each other just as God had it with Adam and Eve and others at the time. It was always Gods will to impute righteousness to man. That was Gods intent at the garden. God had it already in mind to bring redemption to the world since He knew that there was a fallen angel that had to be dealt with, and was still going to and fro on the earth messing with people like job. God even bragged to Lucifer that he will not find a more righteous man like Job upon the earth. God didnt see Job as being righteous because of his performance. God saw Job just as he saw Abraham and everyone else...righteous because they were created in the image of a righteous God. Abraham and God had a relationship going and Abraham must have known in his heart that God saw him as being righteous and that through him the promise would come to make all men before God righteous and that promise was Jesus who took upon Himself the sins of all men to make all unbelieving men righteous before God. Just as sin spread upon all men through the disobedience of Adam, without man being asked to believe that they had become sinners, the same way God imputed righteousness upon all men without asking men to believe that they were righteous. Jason, I dont know if I am making any sense to you. But this is the best way I know how to explain it and it is about the most simple way I can put it to your question. Abraham already believed in God. However, what Abraham was believing God for in this particular situation was that God had made a promise and through that promise Abraham knew that God would impute righteousness upon him so that the promise would take its course through Abraham until Jesus had come. Grace N Peace Eddie
Posted on: Mon, 24 Mar 2014 01:23:56 +0000
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