The Mediator

The Mediator

The definition of “Mediation” is; negotiation to resolve differences conducted by some impartial party; the act of intervening for the purpose of bringing about a settlement. And this is exactly what Christ did for us. He made himself the go between us and our sin. This all started in the Garden of Eden, where Eve ate of the fruit. From that point on every human now had the knowledge of evil. God made a decision from then on to stand between the living and the dead, he decided to give us all another chance. We needed him to do this and still need him to do this because of the fact that we are sinners and cannot save our selves. The only way that we can ever do go beyond what we are, and where we are, is because God be came our mediator. So this means that when the final atonement takes place the knowledge of evil or sin will be taken away from us, and we will not need a mediator.

We are all sinful beings with really nothing good in us. We are a corrupt channel. And the way that mediation is worked into this, is that when we turn our ways and our minds over to God and then he can come in as our mediator and mold and shape us into what he wants us to be. Our “good work” and “the priestly” work can never be of value to God as long as man is so corrupt. We are nothing without our heavenly father helping us along every step of the way.

Catholics and Protestants differ on whether a person’s good works are perfect and have merit. Catholics believe that eternal life is a free gift of Gods mercy and love, won for us by Christ death. So basically once you’re saved your always saved. Rather then giving glory to God for the good works that they do, they instead glorify themselves in doing it. The protestants on the other hand, believe that every good work that that is done is the effect of the Holy Ghost working through each individual, and when we work together from God, we can then say ”by the grace of God I am what I am”

The papacy takes away Christ’s daily work of meditation, in the way of saying that the good works that a person does is the effect of the Holy Spirit, changing and working on our hearts. This means if the Holy Spirit is working in our hearts, then he must be totally fulfilling the divine law, which then would let us conclude that we are perfect. This would mean that Christ’s mediatorial work ,(which he is doing in heaven) is not necessary. So God and his whole system would not be helpful and then could be considered useless.

A Seventh -Day Adventist could believe in their own works for salvation or believe in the righteousness by works……here’s how. Our walk with God starts really at our conversion. From that time on in our lives we go through a sanctification process (this can be defined as building our character). And it is said that when we have a perfect character we will have over come every wrong word and action. We need to be prepared for judgment, because after this we need to be ready for the marriage.

Spiritualistic teachings go in and try to change the way that Christians think. This theory takes away the necessity for atonement and makes man think that he is his own savior. This is a very warp view, seeing as how God is the only way to heaven, and the only reason for life. So be careful what you take in and what you allow yourself to believe.