Posted on 09/03/2023 10:10:00 AM PDT by daniel1212
Remember, folks - pain is just God’s way of hurting us.
Evil is a product of man’s rebellion...
It separated us from God, for pure righteousness cannot coexist with evil...
This damned man to be apart from His creator... until Christ blood was shed to cleanse us from such... Forgiveness requires a blood sacrifice... Christ being the eternal High Priest and innocent lamb paid the price for eternity...
All He asks is for your acceptance of such and asking for His forgiveness...
If truly pursued He will live in you as you live in Him... His Father than sees His Son and not a sinner deserving condemnation... We than can be one with the Father again.
God is patient, He could come now and end all of the evil in this world... but He wants all that can be saved, to be saved...
We live in a time of grace... although forgiveness and salvation is a available it will present in a world where evil, trials and tribulations will occur...
But like a thief in the night He will return one day... and that will be a day of judgement...
Time is running out...
Thank you Jesus for providing us with a gift that is underserved... and showing us mercy...
Without Sin, would the world have remained pristine and perfect?
Does Sin cause natural catastrophes?
Did Christ's sacrifice eliminate natural catastrophes?
If not: WHY not?
Regards,
As for natural catastrophes... again, we live in a fallen world... this was not the original intention of our lives...
This too will end when judgement comes upon this world and His Kingdom is established here as in heaven...
Bkmk
I like the word receive.
We can be certain God chooses us. But do we choose him? The question baffles me.
We must submit to God. The concept of choosing seems to have an element of taking, which is not properly submissive.
As far as I can tell (which is not as far as others), the concept of receiving is both an active decision and consistent with submission.
Okay, but where does that take us, specifically, on the question of evil?
God gave US the authority over the devil. It is up to US to stop him
Amen brother... that is Truth
But if the Lord had acted immediately - i.e., at the first possible opportunity, thousands of years ago - many souls now facing damnation would never even have been born.
Better that no one had ever been born, but then no one had been damned.
Regards,
I think the “problem is evil” is very tough—and the happy talk or attempting to blame the victim does not resolve it.
My agnosticism is based not on a lack of appreciation for the boundless wonders of life and the universe. It is based on man’s lack of knowledge thereof.
To me, religious believers are the ones with hubris - claiming to know so much that can’t be known. Their arguments always boil down to… “if there is no God, then how do you explain [_______]? That’s the point - I can’t explain it and neither can you.
Cf. Batsell Baxters "Have Atheists Proved There Is No God."
What I mean is, your term “happy talk” doesn’t give us anything other than an emotional response. There is nothing concrete that can be directly applied.
But you give me nothing.
Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you. (John 15:16)Which is not opposed to man choosing. For man is not converted in his sleep, as instead man is called to choose. Yet in conversion the sinner does what he/she otherwise would not and could not do, but God provided salvation and grants repentant faith and works in us to obey), that of believing.
. For man could not and would not believe on the Lord Jesus or follow Him unless God gave him life, and breath, and all good things he has, (Acts 17:25) and convicted him, (Jn. 16:8) drew him, (Jn. 6:44; 12:32) opened his heart, (Acts 16:14) and granted repentance (Acts 11:18) and gave faith, (Eph. 2:8, 9) and then worked in him both to will and to do of His good pleasure the works He commands them to do. (Phil. 2:13; Eph. 2:10)
Thus it is effectual faith which identifies a believer, and persevering in faith is exhorted, versus denying the faith, against developing an "evil heart of unbelief in departing from living God," from the faith they once held, falling from grace, making Christ of no effect, to no profit, drawing back to perdition," yielding to pressure to deny the faith after conversion so that Paul's labor would be in vain, (Gal. 5:1-5; Heb. 3:12; 10:25-39; 1 Thessalonians 3:5)
No attempt to diminish God can succeed. This is a good starting point.
Amen 🙏🏻!
That’s right.
The same reason the machines bailed on creating utopia for us in the Matrix...
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