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Accountable, or to give an account.
Dawidos:
Well, we must remember that giving an account has also a deep, meaningful purpose like everything else in God's Grand Plan. The first of all, it's for our benefits only, not for God. The second of all it's a necessary step to learn righteousness. In the mortal world we also give an account before the court, we can say we are guilty of something, but "carnal" giving an account is nothing compared to "spiritual" giving an account during The Last Judgment. I don't know how it will look like, but I imagine your wrong acts and doings will completely manifest to you, you will "taste" them by your inner being and you will feel all this remorse, regret, sorrow. You will understand how carnal and beast you are and this will lead to repentance and begging for change. Next you will go to the Lake of Fire for correction - to purge you of this evil nature (therefore you suffer loss of your inner being, of who you are), but in the end you will be saved and become a new creature, in which only those good traits are preserved. Probably the worse you are, the more intense will be this purging process.
Dave in Tenn:
Well said, Dawidos. What we are and do is no surprise to God. The 'giving an account' is for our benefit. And it isn't limited to the Great White Throne or future judgement. We only get healed when we acknowledge we're sick. Everything from the law itself to the soveriegnty of God is working to get us to that point, and then beyond. There are several 'names' for this process/event, and it is the reason for the law itself.
SDDiver:
--- Quote from: Dave in Tenn on February 03, 2011, 11:35:13 AM --- There are several 'names' for this process/event, and it is the reason for the law itself.
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I'm not sure I follow. Is the event the giving of an account? In which way is it reason for the law? ???
Dave in Tenn:
I don't see any difference between 'giving an account' at the Final Judgement and 'confessing sins', 'repenting', 'judging yourself' or any number of other scriptural descriptions of coming to see the Beast on the Throne. If God's people are being judged now, this is the primary way they are being judged. We "give an account" every time we compare ourselves to His righteousness and find ourselves lacking. Only the setting is different (if indeed it is much different) and apparently the amount of 'sight' as opposed to the faith with which we are judged now.
The first several chapters of Romans lay out the 'why' of the law. I won't argue that the law may have been given to make better lives or societies as well as the reasons Paul laid out, but those aren't the reasons he laid out in Romans. The law came to, in essence, create sinners. Before and without law, there is no transgression. The law also increased in order to increase sin. The harder the law to obey (and the more of them), the more sin it creates/increases. It also sets the penalty for sin, and that is death. This is the 'death' that Christians fear and those who are coming to believe the Gospel embrace. It's the death to self, self-righteousness, and to sin itself.
"We know that the Law is Spiritual..." said Paul in Romans 7:14, ..."but I know I am fleshly, disposed of under sin." It's not possible to obey this Spiritual Law in the flesh. It's the hardest of all possible laws.
I'll stop there for fear of teaching. Read the first chapters of Romans, if you haven't as a BELIEVER in the Gospel, and you'll at least see that the reasons for the law are counter-intuitive to sunday school. It's a good thing to find ourselves destroyed and lost. It happens to the best of us.
grapehound:
Amen Dave
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