Air India Revisited

Three Wishes: Grace Mercy Peace.

Re: Air India Revisited (Closure vs Disclosure)

Back in 1985 a bomb exploded aboard an Air India flight from Canada to India, killing over 300 people. Twenty years later two people charged in connection with such have been acquitted. Media reports indicate relatives of those killed (mostly East Indian Canadians) are still grieving, still looking for 'closure' in the form of vengeance, penalty, blame, legalistic justice upon someone, anyone, for their grief and sorrows.

Biblically the Holy Bible ends with the book of Revelation, and by definition Revelation is not about closure, but rather about 'disclosure'; not about cover up, but rather about 'uncovering'. And when uncovering the penalty of biblical law it is found to accurse, accuse, and condemn all to death; not just some bad guys only. So seeking law vengeance, penalty, blame, punishment to any by imputing sin to some, only imputes sin upon all, death upon all.

The Bible is clear that law imputed sin made sinners all, none righteous, no, not one. The Bible is also clear that law is the source of sin: Romans 5:13 and the strength of sin: 1Corinthians 15:56 witch has a deadly "sting" of death. For sin, when "it is finished", brings forth death: James 1:15. And if all be sinners by law imputed sin to any, it (law) brings death upon all, via the curse of the law: if all do not keep all the law all the time, then all are accursed. Hence the only plausible escape for any, also for all since "there is no respect of persons with God" and "we all are one", is the abolition of law: sin & death thereof law: the "ministration of death": 2Corinthians 3.

Many still seek the first of twain blesseds in Romans 4: 7,8; which notably law imputes sin and then covers it with sacrifice (slaughter, bloodshed). But when such blessedness of law is revelationed, uncovered, such a cover up is found to be like a diaper full of dung. As such it is the childish kind of blessedness in comparison to the "man" kind of blessedness found in Romans 4:8 "Blessed the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin". The Apostle Paul says in 1Corinthians 13:11 when he became a man he put away childish things. In Hebrews 10:9 he notes (about what came first: law & what came second: grace) the work JC came to do (the will of God) is: "he taketh away the first, that he may establish the second". So we're talking abolition of the first (law) to establish the second (grace). For both is an oxymoron, the mixture of contrary things which cannot coexist in peace.

Since grace "is", and law "added", the only plausible mixture of twain is grace + law, which is as life + death, which is a dead end. Hence to have a living end, as in Revelation 22:21, there we find no law, only grace; and thereby no death (none perish), only life (all live).

The "grace" of our Lord Jesus Christ with you all. Amen.

Daniel Miles

www.godshew.org