Blog All

I tell people that I did NOT marry Heather, my wife. Rather, we agreed to have another marry us together. That person had the power and the will to forge our oneness and pronounce us "man and wife."

I'm asking you to hold together this paradox. There is no contradiction. Both are true:

• we had the willingness to be made one
• it was by Another that this came about

Universalists say that they made themselves willing, and others are not yet willing. Those that are unwilling to call Jesus the Lord, will one day change their minds ... and then they can enter salvation, too. This self-alteration is as a goat becomming a sheep, or a weed becoming a wheat. However, nature tells us that sheep stay sheep, and goats stay goats, and no weed has ever become anything other then a weed.

We can't change what we are by making ourselves willing if we are not willing.
Even if that were possible, what made us willing to make ourselves willing to make ourselves willing to make our selves willing when we weren't willing?
Either we are fashioned by the Father to be willing, or we are fashioned by the Father to be unwilling. If it is up to us at any level, then it is by our WORK of making ourselves willing that we are saved. This takes us to another paradox.

So, how is it that this is birth if it is our willingness?
_{(continue on page 5)}

Pages: 1 2 3 4 5 6