IF JESUS IS MEDIATOR THEN THAT MEANS YOU HAVE A NASTY GOD TO WORRY
ABOUT UNTIL JESUS GETS YOU ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF HIM!!
What is a mediator? A mediator is one who comes between two or more parties
at enmity, removes the enmity and restores them to friendship. The Bible says
that Jesus is the only mediator between God and man. 1 Timothy 2:5 says that
“there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus.”
Whoever denies that God hates and holds grudges against you until you ask Jesus
to make peace for you is simply not a follower of Jesus at all for they fail to
understand and follow something totally basic to Jesus' role. They follow their
own version of Jesus but not Jesus. The text refers to Jesus as the man. This
seems random but it is not. The point of the text is that no HUMAN BEING can
make peace with God. Not even you. The only exception is Jesus. So the notion of
saints who are dead people making peace with God for you by praying for you is
excluded. Even if they pray for you, it is not as mediators. Their prayers are
not intended to make peace and cannot make peace. They just pray for the sake of
praying and loving God and wishing us well.
It is interesting to note that Jesus incited hatred against your enemies by
telling you that if they repent you can forgive them (Luke 17:3). So if they
don't repent and apologise don't forgive them. It is argued that Jesus pleaded
for forgiveness for his enemies on the cross. But Jesus did not say he forgave
them but prayed that they might be forgiven after repentance. He did not say he
forgave them. Praying for your enemies to repent and be forgiven by you is
entirely compatible with hating them for it is an expression of non-forgiveness.
Paul wrote in Romans 5 that when Jesus died to make up for our sins and so
to make peace between us and God that at that time God and us were still
enemies. Enemies hate each other and want to do wrong things against each other.
When God cursed the serpent in Genesis he told it that he would put enmity
between its seed and the seed of the woman, Eve. They would be bitter enemies.
Christians say the seed is Jesus and the serpent was just the Devil. So Jesus
hates Satan. He doesn't hate the Devil because the Devil causes all sin. The
Devil only suggests sin and we make ourselves as bad as him by doing what he
suggests. Many of our sins are like his. He didn't have a Devil to tempt him but
he sinned and we often sin without a Devil to tempt us. So if the Christians are
right then Jesus must hate us too. We are not much better than the Devil.