Mark,
Hello to you!
I have not read through the entire thread to see if anyone has asked you this. If you have answered it elsewhere, provide me the link as I would be interested in your response.
If God indeed gave us our nature the way it is now, why then do we die? How does death fit in with His acceptance of our imperfect behavior?
It is because of Scripture that we understand that death is the undeniable penalty of our fallen nature. The indictment has already been issued. We are under its sentence already.
Because of death we realize that redemption is required. God provided a substitute death -- a "lamb", if you will. The death of an innocent is given to pay for the death of the guilty.
If a young child of yours falls down a well, he needs the efforts of one from above -- his father -- to bring him back up. It doesn't really matter if he can grasp the danger he is in. His submission is required because he is incapable on his own, regardless of his own opinion, of returning to the top. Also, the father would have to be lowered into the well, and hold him firmly as they ascend.
May you find your own personal "ascension" to the Father by relying on the efforts that Jesus freely extends to you. He has descended into the well of death where we are in order to rescue us.
Wont you reach out for His hand, Mark? You know how. . . It goes something like this: "Jesus, I take your hand and ask you to save me unto eternal life.
Mark, he takes every hand that reaches out to Him in faith. "If any man come to me, I will under no circumstances cast him away." (John 6:37)
Stan
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