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Strafvervanging Versus Ontwerpwet – Wat Is Die Verskil?

Strafvervanging Versus Ontwerpwet – Wat Is Die Verskil?

‘n Aanlyn luisteraar het geskryf:

Wat is die verskil tussen strafvervanging en ontwerpwet? Hoe verduidelik ons die verskil en redeneer met iemand wat in strafvervanging glo?

Ontwerpwette is die wette waarop ons Skepper God die werklikheid gebou het om te werk. Dit is wette soos die wet van swaartekrag, wette van fisika, wette van gesondheid en ook God se morele wette. Afwykings van ontwerpwette beskadig altyd diegene wat dit oortree en sal tot die dood lei, tensy die ontwerper ingryp om te genees en te herstel. Die Bybel leer dus:

  • Die loon van sonde is die dood (Rom 6:23)
  • sonde groei en bring die dood. (Jakobus 1:15)
  • Wie saai om sy sondige natuur te behaag, sal uit daardie natuur vernietiging maai (Gal 6:8)

Voorbeelde van oortredings van ontwerpwetgewing is:

  • Spring van ‘n gebou af – sterf
  • Rook gereeld – verwoes jou gesondheid en sterf vroeër
  • Pleeg egbreuk – skroei die gewete – verhard die hart, vorm die karakter van ‘n bedrieër en, as jy nie berou en genesing van God het nie, sterf vir ewig

Die plan van verlossing is dus die Vader, Seun en Heilige Gees wat saamwerk om hulle skepping te genees en terug te herstel in harmonie met hulle ontwerp – om die heelal van sonde te bevry. In hierdie siening is sonde (wat nie in harmonie is met God se ontwerpwet en die ontwerpprotokolle vir die lewe nie) die bron van pyn, lyding en dood. God is die bron van genesing en lewe.

Mense kan nie ruimte, tyd, energie, materie of lewe skep nie, dus kan ons nie God se ontwerpwette skep of verander nie. Wat ons kan doen, is om reëls op te stel wat ons wette noem en dan om mense te dreig en straf wat nie ons reëls nakom nie. Dit is die werkwyse van sondige wesens. Dit is Satan se siening en Satan se manier. Een Bybelkommentator het dit so gestel:

By die aanvang van die groot stryd het Satan beweer dat die wet van God nie gehoorsaam kan word nie, dat geregtigheid nie met genade te rym is nie en dat, indien die wet gebreek word, dit vir die sondaar onmoontlik sou wees om vergewe te word. Elke sonde moet sy regmatige straf ontvang, het Satan beweer (Koning van die Eeue 761)

God sou die Satan en sy aanhangers net so maklik kon vernietig as wat ‘n mens ‘n klippie op die aarde neergooi; maar Hy het nie. Opstand sou nie met geweld onderdruk word nie. Dwang hoort net tuis onder satan se heerskappy. Dis nie die Here se beginsels nie. Sy gesag berus op goedheid, genade en liefde; Sy aangewese middele is die uitvoer van hierdie beginsels. Die bewind van God is moreel, en waarheid en liefde is die heersende mag (Koning van die Eeue bl 759)

Dit is die weg van die dierlike stelsels – menslike regerings wat altyd diegene sal dwing, forseer en selfs doodmaak wat nie saamstem nie of daarteen in opstand kom. En hierdie tipe wet word altyd arbitrêr opgelê. Die boek Handelinge van die Apostels stel dit so:

“Waarmee,” het Christus gevra, “moet ons die koninkryk van God vergelyk of met watter soort gelykenis moet ons dit voorstel?” Markus 4:30. Hy kon nie die koninkryke van die wêreld as ‘n gelykenis gebruik nie. In die samelewing het Hy niks gevind om dit mee te vergelyk nie. Aardse koninkryke regeer deur die oorheersing van fisiese mag; maar Christus se koninkryk verban elke vleeslike wapen, elke dwanginstrument. (bl. 12)

Strafaanhangers ontken dat sonde self die dood veroorsaak en leer eerder dat sonde ‘n regsprobleem met die hemelse administrasie veroorsaak, wat vereis dat God die dood as ‘n opgelegde straf moet toedien. Hulle leer dit, omdat hulle die leuen aanvaar het dat God se wet nie anders funksioneer as menslike wet nie; reëls opgelê wat opgelegde straf vereis.

Onder opgelegde regsmodelle is daar niks inherent verkeerd met die oortreding van die wet nie. Om 50 mph in ‘n 45-mph-sone te ry, lei natuurlik nie tot enige besering of skade aan die oortreder van die wet nie. Die oortreder moet deur die owerhede gevang word, hul dade laat aanteken, hul saak voor ‘n regter voorgelê word en dan ‘n arbitrêr vasgestelde straf as straf opgelê word. Dit is menslike wet, nie die Skepperwet nie. Dit is die werkwyse van sondige wesens, nie ‘n sondelose God nie. Hierdie idee van die reg is die basis van strafvervangingsteologie. Dit is gegrond op ‘n leuen oor God se wet en bied ‘n siening van God se regering wat funksioneel nie anders is as sondige menseregerings nie.

In die strafregtelike siening word God die bron van toegediende pyn, lyding en dood. Daar word geleer, in die strafregtelike siening, dat God se gebruik van mag om te martel en dood te maak “geregtigheid” is, omdat sonde gestraf moet word. Sulke slegte teologie is die vrug van die aanvaarding van Satan se leuen oor God se wet en dat God, om regverdig te wees, sonde moet straf. In hierdie siening, in plaas van dat God werk om die geestelik terminale sieke te genees en te red, word God die een teen wie ons beskerm moet word, wat lei tot teologieë wat as hul funksie die uitsluitlike doel het om ons vir God weg te steek en ons te beskerm teen God, eerder as om ons te genees sodat ons geskik sal wees om in sy teenwoordigheid te leef.

Kyk na die talle idees wat in die Christendom geleer word en wat die doel het om ons van God weg te steek. Hoekom? Omdat mense verkeerdelik glo dat as God hulle sonde en hulle sondigheid raaksien, dat daar van Hom verwag sal word om toorn en woede uit te haal om pyn en lyding aan te rig om hulle vir hulle sonde te straf. Dit is presies wat Satan wil hê mense moet dink, want hierdie idee laat mense hulself vir God wegsteek.

Maar Dawid van ouds het gebid, “deursoek my en sien die goddelose optrede in my.” Hy wou nie sy sondigheid vir God wegsteek nie, want hy het geweet God sou hom nie straf nie, maar was die enigste Een wat hom kon genees, daarom het hy gebid, “skep in my ‘n rein hart en gee my ‘n nuwe, standvastige gees.”

God se eindtydse mense moet ‘n boodskap aan die wêreld oordra wat hulle terugroep om die Ontwerper te aanbid en om “Hom te aanbid wat die hemel, die aarde, die see en die waterfonteine gemaak het” (Op 14:7). Dit is ‘n oproep om die diktator-sienings van God te verwerp en die Skepper, Ontwerper en Bouer van die werklikheid te omhels! Dit beteken dat ons die opgelegde wet en al die valse strafregsteologie waarop dit gegrond is, moet verwerp.

Maar wees voorbereid dat die regsaanhangers nog ‘n leuen na jou kant sal slinger. Wees voorbereid daarop dat hulle dinge sal beweer soos:

  • Jennings glo nie in die plaasvervangende aard van Christus se dood nie
  • Come and Reason Ministries ontken dat Christus moes sterf vir ons redding
  • Jennings glo nie in die bloedversoening nie
  • Come and Reason leer morele invloedteorie

Al hierdie bewerings is vals en is in werklikheid diagnosties (onthullende bewyse) van die ingesteldheid van diegene wat die bewerings maak. Net soos Jesus gesê het, “waar die hart van vol is loop die mond van oor. ’n Goeie mens bring uit die oorvloed goeie dinge in sy hart goeie dinge te voorskyn en ’n slegte mens bring uit die oorvloed slegte dinge in sy hart die slegte te voorskyn” (Mat 12:34,35 NLV11), onthul diegene wat sulke dinge sê dat hulle vasgevang is in die valse, opgelegde wet denkmodel. Hulle woorde is bewyse teen hulleself, nie teen wat ons leer nie.

Ons leer wel dat Christus ons plaasvervanger is, maar soos die Bybel dit leer, nie soos die valse regstelsel nie. En hoe leer die Bybel dit? “God het hom wat geen sonde gehad het nie, vir ons sonde gemaak, sodat ons in hom die geregtigheid van God kan word” (2Kor 5:21).

Christus het sonde geword, d.w.s. plaasvervanger, vir ons, sodat (let op die Bybelse rede) ons regverdig kan word! Christus se plaasvervanging was NIE om ‘n wettige boete te betaal nie, maar om die geneesmiddel te verskaf om te genees en reg te stel wat sonde aan sy skepping gedoen het!

Dit was nie moontlik vir mense om genees/gered te word sonder die lewe, dood en opstanding van Jesus Christus nie. Geen mens kon bereik wat nodig was nie. Ons glo dus in bloedversoening, waar die “lewe in die bloed is” (Lev 17:11) en versoening eenwording is – om sondige mense tot eenheid met God te herstel. Dus, die volmaakte sondelose menslike lewe van Jesus, wat Hy afsonderlik en alleen ontwikkel het, word die genesende middel waaraan ons deelneem, sodat “dit nie meer ek is wat lewe nie, maar dit is Christus wat in my leef” (Gal 2:20). Ons word “deelgenote van die goddelike natuur” (1Pt 1:4).

Ons leer nie Morele Invloedteorie nie, wat basies sê die doel van Christus se dood was om die waarheid oor God te openbaar om ons terug te wen tot vertroue en niks meer nie. Ons erken dat deel van Christus se missie was om die waarheid te openbaar om ons te wen om te vertrou, maar ons het meer nodig gehad. Ons het ‘n nuwe natuur nodig gehad, ‘n nuwe, volmaakte, menslike karakter wat geen sondige mens kon ontwikkel nie. Christus het dus mens geword om, as ‘n mens, “in alle opsigte versoek te word, net soos ons is – maar sonder sonde” (Hebr 4:15), sodat “nadat hy volmaaktheid bereik het, het Hy vir almal wat Hom gehoorsaam is, die bron van ewige verlossing geword” (Hebr 5:9 NLV11).

Was Jesus nie altyd volmaak nie? Jesus was altyd sondeloos! Maar Bybelvolmaaktheid verwys na ‘ n volwasse, sondelose karakter. Karakter kan nie deur God geskep word nie. Dit kan slegs ontwikkel word deur die vrywillige keuses van die intelligente wese. Nadat Adam gesondig het, kon geen mens dus ‘ n sondelose karakter ontwikkel nie. Dit is wat Christus vir ons gedoen het! Loof God!

Dus, Come and Reason Ministries leer Genesende Plaasvervanging – Jesus het ons plaasvervanger geword om te red en te genees!

Verwerp die valse, wettiese beskouing van God se wet, met sy valse siening van God as die oplêer van pyn, lyding en dood. Keer terug daarna om die Skepper te aanbid, wie se wet ontwerpwet is en wat die bron is van lewe, liefde en alles wat goed is en wat jou sal genees as jy Hom vertrou!

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