Monday, December 28, 2009

Free-Will Christendom

Bonaventure quotes passages of Jesus sending the disciples out to all the world to preach the gospel, and he names it “Jesus given dominion over all the earth.” Well, I do believe that Jesus was given dominion, but is his sending the disciples out a sign of that dominion. He is sending them out as ambassadors, not as rulers.

Rather, the disciples are giving out an invitation to be a part of a spiritual kingdom. Everyone may, if they so choose, abandon their citizenship to this world, to these nations, to all the systems corrupted by Satan, and become a citizen of Jesus’ kingdom, of the just law and the just ruler, where the poor are cared for. But this is not dominion, for every person must make their own choice as to whether they accept citizenship in this kingdom. No one is born to it, everyone must accept it, willingly.

So Jesus, in a sense, does have dominion, but only over those who willingly surrender themselves to him and his kingdom.

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