No Other Hope…
February 28, 2012 2 Comments
… because we hope in the living God, who is the Saviour of all men…
- 1 Timothy 4:10
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I love this whole Text…”For to this end we toil and strive, because we have our hope set on the living God, who is the Savior of all people, especially of those who believe.” (1 Tim. 4:10, ESV) Love that word “especially”, (Malista, Gk.) “most of all, or above all”, i.e. “chiefly”.
The death and atonement of Christ is always especially, chiefly and most of all – for the salvation of His “people”. God surely does have “a remnant according to grace.” The Salvation of Christ is general in the sense of sufficiency, but always only efficient or efficaious for the ‘election of grace’. I think at least this is the doctrine of Calvin, and perhaps the best of “Calvinism”. We certainly don’t want to overstate this mystery, however, and make it a doctrine of scholastic glory, but the mystery of God’s negative (to man’s) theology. Here is always God’s great mystery in redemption! I believe this is the essence also of Augustine, and the Augustinian doctrine of grace and salvation.