VaKristu Vane Chengetedzo Isingaperi?

Kana wangoponeswa, munhu anogona kurasikirwa neruponeso rwake here?

Mufungo wegehena–yokuparadzaniswa naMwari nokusingaperi–ipfungwa inotyisa. Saka, zviri nyore kuona kukwezva kwekutenda kuti kuenda kugehena hazvigoneke. Zvakadaro, pfungwa yakamboponeswa-yakagara yaponeswa haigone kuyananiswa nechiKristu chechokwadi chebhaibheri..

Kutenda kuti mutendi wechokwadi haangapusiki (kana kuti “Chengeteko Nokusingaperi” sokuzivikanwa kwavanoitwa nhasi) inogona kurondwa kumashure kwaJohn Calvin (d. 1564) dzidziso yeKutsungirira kweVatsvene, kana kuti zvimwe kudzidziso dzekufanotemerwa kwaJohn Wyclif (d. 1384).

Isu tinotenda kuti pfungwa dzakadai dzinotsamira pakunzwisisa kusina kururama kwaSaint Pauro Tsamba kuna vaRoma 8:29-30:

“Avo vaakagara aziva, akavatemerawo ... . Uye avo vaakagara atemera, ndivo vaakadanawo; naivo vaakadana, ndivo vaakaruramisawo; uye vaya vaakaruramisa, ndivo vaakakudzawo.

Kududzira kwaCalvin ndima iyi kwakamuita kuti asvike pamhedziso inotyisa zvikuru yokuti Mwari akagadza mimwe mweya kuhero.! “Nezvikonzero zvisinganzwisisike nekusaziva kwedu,” akadaro, “Mwari anomanikidza munhu kutyora mitemo yake asingadzivisiki, kuti kufurira kwake kunoshandura mwoyo yavakaipa ive yakaipa, murume uyo anowira pasi, nokuti Mwari akazviraira” (Patrick F. O'Hare, Chokwadi Pamusoro paLuther, TAN Books, 1987, p. 273).

Mutsara wekufunga uyu wakapa nzira kune pfungwa isiriyo yekuti Kristu akafira pamuchinjikwa, kwete kuvanhu vose, asi nokuda kwavasanangurwa chete! Dzidziso yeChechi nguva dzose, zvisinei, kwave kuti Mwari anopa nyasha dzakakwana kuti munhu wose aponeswe.

Sokudzidzisa kunoita Rugwaro, “[Mwari vanoda] vanhu vose kuti vaponeswe uye . . . vasvike pakuziva chokwadi.” (Ona Tsamba Yokutanga yaPauro kuna Timotio 2:4; the Evhangeri yaJohani 12:32, Johane wacho Tsamba Yokutanga 2:2, et al.).

Augustine, Chiremba weChechi, (d. 430) akanyora, “Mwari anopa vimbiso yekuti kunyangwe kune avo vakapinzwa muzvivi zvizhinji uye zvisingadzivisiki, Achachengeta zvakasara zvetsitsi netsitsi; uye Iye anotaura kuti kunyange avo Iye haasati achizovadzivisa kuponeswa kana vakasarudza kudzokera kunzira dziri nani uye dzakafanira zvikuru, maererano nemitemo yake” (Tsanangudzo pamusoro paIsaya 4:2).

Saizvozvowo, Thomas Aquinas (d. 1274) yakataurwa mu Pfupiso yezvidzidzo zvouMwari, “Rudo rwaKristu rwakanga rwusiri rwakakwana chete, asi ruregerero rukuru rwezvivi zverudzi rwevanhu.; maererano ne 1 Jo. ii. 2: Ndiye mudzikinuri wezvivi zvedu: uye kwete zvedu chete, asiwo nokuna avo venyika yose” (3:48:2).

Uyezve, zvirevo zveChengetedzo Yekusingaperi hazviwanikwe muMagwaro. Pauro, semuyenzaniso, anonyora mubhuku rake Tsamba Yokutanga kuvaKorinde:

4:3-5 ini handizvitongi pachangu. handina chandinoziva chandinopikisa, asi handikoniswi pachinhu ichi. Jehovha ndiye anonditonga. Naizvozvo regai kutonga nguva isati yasvika, Ishe asati auya, iye uchabudisa pachena zvinhu zvakavanzwa murima zvino uye uchabudisa pachena mifungo yemoyo;. Ipapo munhu wose achagamuchira kurumbidzwa kwake kuna Mwari. …

9:27 Ndinoyemura muviri wangu uye ndinoukurira, kuti ini, pashure pokuparidzira vamwe, ini ndirege kuva wakarashwa. …

10:12 Naizvozvo ani nani unofunga kuti umire ngaachenjere, zvimwe ungawa.

Mune yake Tsamba kuvaFiripi 2:12, Pauro anokurudzira vakatendeka ku“shandira ruponeso rwenyu nokutya nokudedera.” Mutsamba imwe cheteyo anonyora, “Kana zvichibvira ndiwane kumuka kubva kuvakafa. Kwete kuti ndatowana izvi kana ndatokwana; asi ndinoshingirira kuti ndiite zvangu, nokuti Kristu Jesu akandiita wake” (3:11-12; kusimbisa kwakawedzerwa). Mune yake Tsamba Yechipiri 3:17,Petro anopa vaKristu zano rokuti “muchenjere kuti murege kutsauswa nokudarika kwavasingateereri mutemo, mukarasikirwa nokusimba kwenyu.”

Vatsigiri veEternal Security vanowanzo tora Tsamba Yokutanga yaJohani 5:13, “Ndinonyora izvi kwamuri imi munotenda kuzita roMwanakomana waMwari, kuti muzive kuti mune upenyu husingaperi.

Zvisinei, mavhesi mashoma apfuura Johane anosimbisa kudikanwa kwekutsungirira muhutsvene, kunyora, “Ndizvo zvatinoziva nazvo kuti tinoda vana vaMwari, kana tichida Mwari uye teererai mirayiro yake. Nekuti urwu ndirwo rudo rwaMwari, kuti isu teererai mirairo yake” (5:2-3; kusimbisa kwakawedzerwa).

Zvakatorwa mumamiriro akakodzera, zvino, MuApostora ari kutaura chaizvo, “Mungaziva kuti mune upenyu husingaperi, kana mukatsungirira murudo rwaMwari, muchiteerera mirayiro yake.”

Avo vanotenda mupfungwa yeChengeteko Yekusingaperi vanowanzotorawo yaPauro Tsamba kuvaRoma 8:38-39:

“Nokuti ndinoziva kuti kunyange rufu, kana upenyu, kana ngirozi, kana vabati, kana zvinhu zviripo, kana zvinhu zvinouya, kana masimba, kana kureba, kana kudzika, kana chimwe chinhuwo zvacho pazvisikwa zvose, richakwanisa kutiparadzanisa nerudo rwaMwari, rwuri muna Kristu Jesu Ishe wedu.

Chinhu chimwe chete chisingataurwi naPauro pano, zvisinei, chivi, izvo zvichaparadzanisa munhu kubva parudo rwaMwari, kunyangwe nekusingaperi akatadza kutendeuka nekushingirira muhutsvene (pa Isaya 59:2).

Saizvozvo, Pauro anoenderera mberi achienderera mberi nenyaya iyi Tsamba kuvaRoma 11:22, kunyora, “Cherekedzai zvino mutsa nekuomarara kwaMwari: kuomarara kuna avo vakawa, asi tsitsi dzaMwari kwauri, kana ukaramba uri muunyoro hwake; ukasadaro newewo uchaparadzwa” (kusimbisa kwakawedzerwa). Ziva kuti zvakafanana zvinogona kutaurwa mukupindura zvichemo zvenhema maererano Johani 10:28, “Ndinoapa upenyu husingaperi, uye havangatongoparari, hakuna ungaabvuta muruoko rwangu. Jesu anosimbisa kuti hakuna munhu anogona kubvisa mumwe kubva mumaoko aMwari. Uye zvakadaro, se Tsamba kuvaRoma 11:22 inosimbisa, mutendi anogona kuzvibvisa pakubata kwaMwari kuburikidza nekusateerera.]

Chokwadi, Pauro aiwanzonyevera vaKristu kuti vasadzokera muchivi, nokuti hakuna munhu anoita zvivi acha“va nenhaka muumambo hwaKristu nohwaMwari” sezvaakanyora mubhuku rake Tsamba kuvaEfeso 5:5.

“Naizvozvo tinofanira kunyatsoteerera kune zvatakanzwa, kuti tirege kukukurwa kubva pairi,” anopa zano munyori we Tsamba kuvaHebheru (2:1; kusimbisa kwakawedzerwa).1

NdiTariro, kwete Security

Saka, Tsamba Yokutanga yaJohani 5:13 naPauro Tsamba kuvaRoma 8:38-39 ratidza kusachengeteka kusingaperi, asi simba rezvidzidzo zvouMwari re tariro, zvinoreva kuti kuvimba kuti Mwari achachengeta vimbiso Yake kwatiri chero bedzi tikaramba takatendeka kwaAri (ona yaPauro Tsamba Yokutanga kuvaKorinde 13:13; zvake Tsamba kuvaGaratia 5:5; zvake Tsamba Yokutanga kuvaTesaronika 1:3; 5:8; uye Tsamba kuvaHebheru 10:23).

Runako rwoumwari rwetariro runoratidzirwa zvakaisvonaka muzvinyorwa zvaVanachiremba veChechi. Mutsvene Teresa weku Ávila (d. 1582), akanyora:

Hope, O mweya wangu, tariro.Hamuzivi zuva kana nguva. Nyatsotarisa, nokuti zvinhu zvose zvinokurumidza kupfuura, kunyange zvazvo kusashivirira kwako kuchipikisa chokwadi, uye inoshandura nguva pfupi zvikuru kuva yakareba. Rota kuti iwe unowedzera kunetseka, paunonyanya kuratidza rudo rwaunotakura Mwari wako, uye kunyanya kwauchazofara rimwe zuva neMudiwa wako, murufaro nokubvutwa kusingazomboperi.” –Kudanidzira kwemweya kuna Mwari 15:3; Katekisimo yeChechi yeRoma 1821

Saizvozvowo, Saint Therese weLisieux (d. 1897) akanyora:

“Chishuviro ichi chinogona kuita sokuzvikudza, tichifunga nezvekusakwana kwandakaita uye ndichiri, kunyange pashure pemakore akawanda kudaro muchitendero; zvakadaro ndine chivimbo chakasimba kuti rimwe zuva ndichave Mutsvene mukuru. Handisi kuvimba nezvandinoita pachangu, nekuti handina. Ndinovimba muna Iye Uyo Akanaka uye Utsvene pachahwo; Iye oga, ndinogutsikana nekuedza kwangu kusina simba, achandisimudzira kwaari, ndipfekedzeiwo nezvake uye mundiite Mutsvene.” —Nyaya Yemweya 4

  1. Vazhinji vanotenda kuti munyori we VaHebheru, zvimwe mudzidzi waPauro, akanyora mukati 6:4 – 5 yokuwa pakutenda kunyange kwe“avo vakambovhenekerwa, avo vakaravira chipo chokudenga, uye vakava vagovani veMweya Mutsvene, uye vakaravira kunaka kweshoko raMwari namasimba enguva inouya.”

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