roleplay On Salvation & Salvific Grace

[Endovelicus 613]

ON SALVATION & SALVIFIC GRACE

A THESIS ON CONDITIONAL ELECTION AND PREVENIENT GRACE

 

Penned by

Stephen Carolus, Wigbrechtian Tertiary, Esq.

 

Imprimatur and Nihil Obstat granted by

His Excellency, Abram Virgilius Calistovich, Archdiocese of Caeruleum 

 

The Rendering of the Void during the End Times, by Christopher FitzBishop, Circa 1677.

 

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DEDICATION

 

This treatise on Salvific Theology is in part dedicated to His Holiness James II, to whom I swear fidelity as his most faithful son in God, to my friend, His Excellency Bram, Archbishop of Caeruleum. Furthermore, I beseech the illumination of Exalted Siegmund, the prayers of Saint Jude,  Blessed Wigbrecht, and the aid of God, so that I may write truthfully.

 

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GOD’S SOVEREIGNTY OVER TIME AND MATTER

 

God is, as revealed by the Holy Scrolls through the Sacred Prophets, all-knowing and all-powerful. It was He that in the very beginning made all the planes of existence (Godfrey 1:2-5), and it was He who commanded all the Aenguls and Daemons to build the firmaments and create the living creatures of lesser intellect (Godfrey 1:10-13), and it was He who made and breathed life into the First Coupling, the progenitors of the Four Brothers (Godfrey 1:27-30). No being nor construct is above Him, for He made them all. So too time does this rule apply. Time is a mere construct, it has its ultimate foundation in matter. For, we divide time according to the movement of the Sun or of the swing of a pendulum, and since God begets matter and matter begets time so does God beget time.

 

With the supremacy of God over time established we must now establish His relationship with time itself. For God, there is neither past nor present nor future. He simply stands above all time and acts as He wishes to act. If someone prays for the wellbeing of all, God may take said prayer that was uttered in 1732 and distribute His grace on a group not yet born, or even for a group already dead, because while the faithful may pray now, God does not use the context of now. For God everything that has happened, is happening and will ever happen is at His disposition and control.

 

It is now that the main question unfolds. If God has supremacy over time in all aspects, does He not determine if someone is saved or damned? Does He not know the ultimate destiny of each soul before the individual is even born?

 

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CONDITIONAL ELECTION

 

As stated in Holy Scripture, God is our Father (Horen 1:5-6), and like any father, His aim is our ultimate satisfaction, here on earth through virtue and the worldly pleasures He has given us, and later union and theosis with Him in the Skies (Horen 3:3-4). Seeing as it is God’s ultimate will for us to be saved, and there are people who are damned (Siegmund 2:44-45), and seeing as God is our Father and a father’s ordered aim is the good of their progeny God cannot be evil, it, therefore, follows that any of the damned are damned due to their own Free Will. 

 

If God, therefore, does not will for the damnation of some and the salvation of other, but rather the salvation of all of those who wish to heed His word: there is no unconditional election, wherein all are either saved or damned according to His whim, but a conditional election of all those who wish to be saved, which he knows due to his position outside of time. 

 

The condition upon which the salvation of the individual depends upon is, very clearly, the reception of baptism at the hands of His priesthood (Godfrey 5:23-24). Thusly without baptism and the reception into God’s salvific plan, there is no salvation for the soul of the individual because he was never called in the first place. 

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THE ELECTION OF THE GENTILES INTO GOD’S COVENANT

 

The reception into God’s salvific plan, should, in most cases, only be received by those of Human descent. Because only Horen, the father of Humanity, was chosen to carry God’s covenant through the baptism at Gamesh (Godfrey 2:33-38), the Gentile races, the various children of Malin, Urguan and Krug, need only follow the precepts of the Scroll of Virtue in order to be redeemed. This, however, means that they shall not receive perfect communion with the creator at the end of times when Iblees and his servants are destroyed, they shall instead be given dominion over a new cleansed earthly paradise (Siegmund 3:11-13) that is, nevertheless, outside of the Skies and therefore not a place of supernatural spiritual rejoicement and perfect theosis, but one of supernatural worldly happiness. 

 

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THE TOTAL DEPRAVITY OF CREATION & PREVENIENT GRACE

 

Due to the fall of Iblees, disobedience and doubt, and therefore sin, became ingrained in the material world. As one can see through careful reading of the Holy Scrolls, shortly after the fall of Iblees the four brothers began to lose faith in God without any external incentive to do so (Godfrey 2:2 & Godfrey 2:5-7). Thusly it was Iblees’ ‘non serviam!’ towards God that doomed the material world and the spirit of the four descendants into gradual decay. This further explains our constant nature as exiles from previous continents, as some leviathan or natural disasters drives us further and further away. This also explains the necessity for the regeneration of the fallen world at the end times (Sigismund 3:4-10).

 

The salvation of those who wish to join in the covenant with God comes through Prevenient Grace, or grace that comes before the act of man. Being all-knowing, God grants graces to those who He knows will accept it, and being outside of time He acts before man, in order to conform his soul to Him (Horen 2:5). This is necessary because without supernatural grace the soul cannot truly yearn for God and wish to be with him due to our sinful nature as outlined before.

 

 

[Gnomistry 1115]

[!]Archbishop Bram, Superior of the Order of Blessed Wigbrecht attaches his seal of approval[!]

 

Pious brother in the Canon, arch-pastoral benedictions on the promulgation of your first thesis in service to the tertiary order of the liberal friars. 

 

The insight and wisdom of the theology you provide is on par with that of the Venerable Vladimir, ‘The Golden Hand’ an astute prelate and monastic of our Holy Canonist Church. It is through the study of theology that we are reinforced in our faith and provide answers for the deepest questions regarding the human condition. The tragedy and rebellion that is the “Non Serviam” created conditions that were outside of the control of Man, for us to be inflicted with such a grotesque depravity through a servant's disobedience. In highlighting the consequences of this fall you pose exceptional insights into the order of the natural world adjusted through disobedience. As such- I deem this text as a worthy example of great accolade for its scholarship and give my Apostolic blessing.

 

His Excellency, ☨ Bram Virgilius Calistovich -  Archbishop of Caeruleum ♗ PH.D, dr.iur.can, D.S.Th, Utriusque Juris Doctor, O.E.Csi.

 

ACCIPE AQUAE GAMESHAE

[Piov 2643]

“A most well-written thesis, frater. Salvation and grace, the epitome of our faith and life, are important points of recent scholarship,” Friar Benedict says approvingly as he concluded his reading.

[VIROS 2915]

“An excellent analysis of the subject of salvation--conditional election reconciles God’s omniscience and omnipotence with man’s free will. In his ultimate mercy, God will not force anything upon us, not even our own salvation. We must choose it for ourselves,” James II remarks to a nearby acolyte.

[thesmellypocket 1859]

“I’ve never thought of the flight from the continents in that way before. It is strange why the cycle of settlement and flight is never discussed.” Comments Pius of Sutica in admiration.