Grace Vs. Judgment Response Paper

Grace vs. Judgment Responses
Amber Baillio
Ohio Christian University

Author Note
This paper answers questions from Packer titled Knowing God.

Grace vs. Judgment Responses

1. What three comments does Packer relate to the Flood of Love? The first point he mentions is the verb shed abroad, which means poured (or dumped) out. Secondly, the thought of the knowledge of God, having flooded our hearts, fills them now, just as a valley once flooded remains full of water. Lastly, to all who are born again instilling this knowledge is described as the regular ministry of the spirit to those who receive Jesus, and to all who are true believers. How do you explain the love of God and the fact that God
This Chapter deals with Grace from a very Calvinistic point of view. State in your own terms the three principles Packer sees as connected to this doctrine of grace. 1. Grace is the source of the pardon of sin. This means to me that we have our own free will to ask God to forgive us, God did gives us a free will to do what we want so in accordance to this we have the right to justify ourselves even though Jesus was crucified for our sins, but it is by god’s grace and mercy that we our saved by his blood. 2. Grace as the motive of the plan of salvation. God’s love is spread to those who are pure in heart, and he reaches out to his people to reach other’s to bring them into one with Christ. Christ died on the cross for our sins and this free gift of which god gave was salvation to those who by faith believe that Jesus died for our sins. 3. Grace as the guarantee of the preservation of the saints. By this point in our Christian life’s we believe with the fullness of our hearts by faith that God’s word is the ultimate truth and that nothing will separate us from unbelieving, because of my faith in God that got me to where I am now, I am going to believe that his love is unconditional and will continue on until the end of
What is the function of the wrath of God? It’s the outgoing of God in retributive action, by whatever means, against those who defied him. Why are we hesitant to preach about the wrath of God? Because a lot of people may not take the word of God seriously, and for those who do no it they don’t take the time really to actually reflect on it, but acquire other scriptures in the bible.
5. What is the Santa Claus theology? When liberalism started to come around in the twentieth century, theologians of this background started to see God in different aspects and this is how Christian apologetics came about, due to the fact that it cannot cope with the fact of evil. What is the condition of our “continuing in his kindness”? You will be cut off (Rom 11:22). Those who decline to respond to God’s goodness by repentance, and faith, and trust, and submission to his will, cannot wonder or complain if sooner or later he