Studentenalmanak 1960 - pagina 220
providence in Biblical terms or in Biblical perspective.
Secondly, when the gospel is considered in its eschatological
orientation, one is afforded a vantage point from which one may
grasp with clarity and force the Biblical teaching that the work
of salvation is ultimately an action of sovereign power and grace.
If one were to evaluate salvation wholly or mainly in terms of actions
within the present age and, in particular, were to place in the
foreground the facts of human experience, with all of its feebleness
and imperfections, one might somewhat plausibly settle for a
synergistic view. But when one contemplates the transformation
eschatologically, and thus does not lose sight of the thoroughgoing
and comprehensive nature of the final salvation, nothing short of
a wholly gracious divine action will be recognized as necessary
to the full accomplishment of the divine purpose and attainment
of the divine goal.
N o r may one take refuge in a dichotomy of saving action, one that
is synergistic for this age and another that is monergistic for the
world to come. For such a dichotomy would involve us in an
intolerable dualism and antithesis within the very nature of salvation.
Salvation is ultimately unitary, not made up of disparate elements.
The transformation resulting from redemptive action is concerned
from beginning to end with making whole that which sin has
disrupted. The kingdom of God whose coming the gospel proclaims
is only one kingdom. T o be sure various aspects of the kingdom
may be distinguished, and corresponding differentiation in its
historical manifestation may be observed. There is progress in
the unfolding of the plan ot redemption even as there are distinctive
stages in the ministry of the Son of Man. But the basic oneness
of the goal and ministry guarantees and requires a single divine
action of salvation, one that reflects at every point, in the present
as well as in the future, the free sovereign operation of divine grace.
Thirdly, the cosmic scope and saeep of the Christian message of redemption
is never borne in upon one more strongly than when the gospel
is considered in its eschatological orientation. One need not quarrel
with those who accentuate the salvation of the individual rather
than „the social gospel," as defined by 19th and 20th century
Liberalism. The Scriptures do not for an instant allow the plight
ot the individual sinner, and his need of a radical transformation,
to be lost sight of or obscured. But the individual is not isolated
from his fellows nor detached from the world, whether he be
considered in terms of his creation, his fall or bis redemption.
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