Post by Admin on Jul 12, 2023 15:08:52 GMT -5
What do you believe about Common grace?
Does it exist?
Is grace only for those elected by God, or is there a grace to non elect persons as they live out there lives?
Here are the words of a critic.
The worldview of common grace dreamed up by Abraham Kuyper a little more than one hundred years ago holds that, alongside His purpose of saving a church in Jesus Christ, God has another purpose with creation and history, namely, the development of a good, godly, and God-glorifying culture. God accomplishes this cultural purpose with creation and history by bestowing a certain grace upon unregenerate, unbelieving people.
God is supposed to give this cultural grace also to His regenerated people. Hence, it is called common grace. It is a grace of God that is common to elect and reprobate, believer and unbeliever, alike. According to the proponents of the theory, the believer lives his life in the world by the power of common grace. And with it he must cooperate with unbelievers in carrying out their mutual task of building a good, God-glorifying culture.
Have you considered this issue? What are your thoughts?
Does it exist?
Is grace only for those elected by God, or is there a grace to non elect persons as they live out there lives?
Here are the words of a critic.
The worldview of common grace dreamed up by Abraham Kuyper a little more than one hundred years ago holds that, alongside His purpose of saving a church in Jesus Christ, God has another purpose with creation and history, namely, the development of a good, godly, and God-glorifying culture. God accomplishes this cultural purpose with creation and history by bestowing a certain grace upon unregenerate, unbelieving people.
This common, cultural grace of God works wonders in the ungodly. It restrains sin in them so that they are no longer totally depraved, as otherwise they would be. It enables these godless, Christ-less men and women to perform deeds in everyday, earthly life that are truly good, and please God. It empowers the wicked to build a culture, an entire way of life of a society, or a nation, that glorifies God.
God is supposed to give this cultural grace also to His regenerated people. Hence, it is called common grace. It is a grace of God that is common to elect and reprobate, believer and unbeliever, alike. According to the proponents of the theory, the believer lives his life in the world by the power of common grace. And with it he must cooperate with unbelievers in carrying out their mutual task of building a good, God-glorifying culture.
Have you considered this issue? What are your thoughts?
