Thursday, January 10, 2019

Good news: The atonement outlasts sin

Theologically, I heard the following for the first time as a child at Maple Ridge Baptist Church from the lead Pastor that was later a Theology professor at Trinity Western University.

God the Son, is the infinite, eternal and omnipotent God and therefore able to outlast finite sin against the infinite God.

At the same time, God the Son, as incarnate, (becomes) is the perfect finite human being and therefore able to serve as the perfect sacrifice in atonement.


Only God the Son, Jesus Christ meets these qualifications, even while working within the Trinity as God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit. Colossians 2: 9 notes that Jesus Christ, God the Son, is the fullness of deity in bodily form.

These are also premises in my view against annihilationism as no finite amount of time by the finite unregenerate in Hades (Luke 16) can pay the penalty for sin that only God the Son, Jesus Christ can cover.


Therefore, everlasting punishment remains the more reasonable explanation within the lake of fire (Revelation 20) as opposed to annihilation. Those not in the book of life remain in sin, opposed to God in sin, by significant free will choice as secondary agents (God as primary cause) and also continually pay for sin (s).