Early grave

From Kristos Vocabulary Booster

English

Noun phrase

early grave

1. Death at a young age (before the age of 60).
2. An act of sentencing of someone under the age of 18 to death row. Early death row.
3. An execution of someone under the age of 18. Early capital punishment.

Related terms

• reach an early grave
• send to an early grave

Translations

• Dutch: dood bij de jeugd, dood op een jonge leeftijd
• French: mort à jeunesse f
• German: früher Tod
• Spanish: muerte en juventud, sepulcro temprano

Gary wrote:
> I recently came across this little passage from
> Thiessen's Lectures on Systematic Theology.
>
> The edition is 1949. p. 150.
>
> The latest edition, revised by a man named
> Doerksen, changes much of what Thiessen
> wrote.
>
> "Neither does God exercise an arbitrary will. Suns Scotus
> and certain other extreme determinists have held to the
> absoluteness of the divine will. They have taught that there
> is no criterion of value that determines God's will. A thing
> is right because God wills it. [This is voluntarism. gkm] To
> this we reply, that if this is the true, then the death of
> Christ is also not necessitated by any inner principle in
> God, but merely by the will of God. If God has willed to
> save man without the death of Christ He could have justly
> done so."

Very interesting problem. I have thought about it, but am unable to
design an erudite solution. From my point of view, with my very
limited intelligence, the problem, like God, is irreducibly complex.
So much so, that I feel an delicacy in assuming to assert an opinion.


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