He (Abraham) participated and we participate.
So then you would characterize Abraham as an active participant, correct?
Lance wrote:
This in no way negates the possibility of a 'unilateral' covenant.
How are you defining "unilateral covenant"? Do you mean that the covenant is only binding on one party to the covenant and that it cannot be broken by anyone but the initiator of the covenant? Do you mean that the covenant exists and is in force no matter what the other parties to the covenant do?
Lance wrote:
As to the charge of 'error': I'm currently comfortable subsuming most, if not all, my thinking under:The Nature of God and, The Nature of God's Gospel.
I have no idea what you mean by these categories. Why not just subsume it all under The Nature of God? What does this mean?
The reason I am considering that "unilateral covenant" is in error is because of the extreme that I see the term being used. I had never objected to this term before. I had considered it a phrase that just meant God loved us first and reached out to us with his covenant while we were still sinners in rebellion against him. Now it seems to me that the phrase is used to mean that man is a passive participant in the covenant, like a wife who is a wife irrespective of how she treats her husband and who she sleeps around with. I'm trying to get to the bottom of this.
Lance wrote:
Driving home yesterday I was listening to an Aussie (Bruce Wauchope) speak to the matter of conscience (i.e. did A&E have one?). It came to me (no epiphany involved) that an accent and a tradition are somewhat similarly acquired. I do believe many people on TT speak with an accent. Tell me, can you hear them?
I would say that everyone on TT speaks with an accent. Sometimes that accent reflects a pure God-given conscience, which is the candle of the Lord. Sometimes that conscience is influenced by one's environment, his activities, and what he has fed his mind. The believer must continue to exercise himself to separate himself from the world so that he will have that pure conscience from God that is not tainted by our culture.
Holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience. (1 Timothy 3:9)
Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned:
(1 Timothy 1:5)
Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.
(Hebrews 10:22)
Peace be with you.
David Miller.
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