THE SWORD THAT CUT THE WORLD IN TWO
The race of mankind is just too wicked to repent and therefore the only potential end to this worldly conflict would be the death of faith and therefore the damnation of humanity. Christ foresaw the conflict He would bring and willed it to be, so that some would be saved. Emphatically, He declared that He came to throw a sword into humanity.
R.C. Lenski: If Christ had not come, the earth would have gone on undisturbed in its sin and its guilt until the day of its doom. Now Christ has come and He came to take away that sin and that guilt that resulted from man’s perversion. Some repent, but…
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