What alternative would you suggest?[/QOUTE]
I already suggested it. God predestined that Christ would receive all the glory and man would not receive any. You suggest that there might have never been a need for Jesus Christ. Scripture is plainly against that teaching, here let me post another plain verse which indicates everything was created
for the glory of Jesus Christ:
COL 1:16 For by him (Jesus Christ) were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him,
and for him:
Clete said:
Two things here.
First of all the name of the book mention here is not "The Book of Life", it is rather "The Book of Life of the Lamb Slain".
Second, the phrase "from the foundation of the world" does not mean that, as godrulz put it, "...He was slain trillions of years ago in eternity past. The phraseology would be consistent with the plan being implemented in Genesis 3, after the Fall, close to the creation of the world."
Oh ok I see now, so Christ's death
was predestined after all. But I thought if you believed this then it couldn't be true, right?!? Oh well whatever!?! So anyway you now teach that He
was predestined after all but it was only "after the Fall, close to the creation of the world," not
before the foundation of the world as the Apostle Peter taught us, or in case of some people is
trying to teach them.
1PE 1:19 But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot:
1PE 1:20
Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you,