-God’s Grace is Conditional

ARTICLE-PRIMER OF THE TRUE BIBLICAL CHRISTIAN FAITH 30

That Although the grace (infinite goodwill, free favors and appropriations) of Christ Jesus, the Almighty Lord God the Son, is over all, upon all, in all, through all, with all, to all and for all so that it is always available to His adherents as well as to His opponents94, yet it is conditional not only because (30-1) He has created-made and maintained everyone of the createdkinds as a self-determining being or a free moral agent, and, (30-2) Jesus anticipatorily

, (by His eternal precosmic foresight, foreknowledge and commitment), and historically, (by working out His will not only in the interpersonal relationship within the TRINITY and/or with the createdkind, angelic and/or human, person[s] but even in the course of cosmic/world events) respects, gives due course and renders justice95 to the assertions and/or negations by others of their respective total freedoms or self-commitments or self-determinations but also because (30-3) the entire character, commitment and disposition of Christ Jesus, the Almighty Lord God the Son, loves righteousness and all of those who voluntarily gave all of their all to be His own96; yet Jesus absolutely hates iniquity97 and He is constantly angry with the sinners98 to the point of having judged them as ALREADY DEAD IN their trespasses and sins99; so Jesus hates sin/iniquity/injustice and He condemns the sinner to both the spiritual (Rom.6:23; Ezek.18:4) and the second (Rev.21:8) death; however, Jesus has already called all sinners to come to Him, to abide in Him and be sanctified or devoted to Him, throughout their remaining opportunity to live on earth and before/prior to their biophysical death, that they may have Him as their ENTIRE SALVATION, ETERNAL LIFE and EVERLASTING GLORY; thus even though all of the gifts-calling-order of God are irrevocable100 yet they are subject to the conditionalities implicitly assumed and/or explicitly required by Jesus regarding them101; so everyone in his/her/its God allotted respective range and/or dimension or scale or measure and/or sphere or realm of capabilities, opportunities and responsibilities can appropriate102 or misappropriate103 or forfeit104 the gifts-calling-order and provisions of Jesus for him/her/it; and since every gift, to be a true gift, must be conditional (the true gift’s conditionalities include at least the implicit or explicit stipulations that, on the one hand, it is not to be earned and/or paid for by the beneficiary and, on the other hand, assuming the reality of the beneficiary’s freewill, the beneficiary may or may not accept or appropriate or enjoy the gift); for even God the Father’s giving of God the Son to the world105 and God the Son’s giving of Himself106 as the ENTIRE SALVATION, ETERNAL LIFE, EVERLASTING GLORY and the justly All-appropriating ALL in all to everyone in all of creation together with Jesus’ gift of the Holy Spirit107 and the gifts108 of the Holy Spirit to the adherents of Jesus are all conditional gifts not only because they are all freely given but also because all of them can be freely accepted or misappropriated or totally rejected or enjoyed by their respective beneficiaries; if any one of the beneficiaries CANNOT FREELY ACCEPT OR REJECT OR APPROPRIATE OR MISAPPROPRIATE OR ENJOY any gift, then, such alleged gift is not a gift anymore but it is already coercion or an imposition or a deception; nevertheless whoever accepts any one or all of the gifts of the Godkind or of the TRINITY must Christologically-Christonormatively-Christocentrically appropriate all of the gifts that he/she has accepted in order for him/her to enjoy the full benefits of all those gifts even unto eternity;

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