Posted on 05/21/2013 5:07:33 PM PDT by pastorbillrandles
In spite of their "education", advanced degrees and, in some cases, very high IQs, liberals brazenly refuse to accept that fundamental truth of our very existence. Thank you for posting this and may you (and all readers of this this thread) continue to enjoy the rich Blessings of God Almighty.
I never pretend to understand the wisdon of God. But I can't understand how murderous Islamists, Boston Bombers, Hitler or Pol Pot, among others, could give Him pleasure.
I found a spreadsheet that equates what’s happening today to the Bible, in timeline format. have you seen it?
Proof he loves us!
The first sentence of the biblical texts as outlined here is indicative of how God arranged that man would participate in revealing His Name; that He would use the spoken Word to teach and save, being a present Help through that same Word. This “beginning” is what Adam taught his children. Generations thereafter teach the same. The mood, tense, and person all bring the reader/hearer into Truth. There are many ways one could express creation and the beginning of time, but fallen man, left to his own devices would have been too clever by half.
No I haven’t but am willing to
Eight on Fester, that is a very profound way of putting it. I neveer thought about the way the mood and tense really do grip us and bring us all in..
I meant to say “Right on” LOL
For every one of those truly evil creatures serving Satan, consider the many who are truly good such as Ronald Reagan, Sarah Palin, Ted Cruz, Louie Gohmert -- and that's just off the top of my head and only from within the past 30 years or so. Each one of those (and there are many others) is a witness to God's eternal Goodness. And, I'll hasten to add that the Lord's Divine Justice will be equally eternal and unyielding for the likes of those murderous Islamists, Boston Bombers, Hitler, Pol Pot and, notably, the equally vile Ted Kennedy, murderer and abortionist.
I thought for sure, you meant Fight On. :) A passing moment of levity in an otherwise serious thread.
...and his children's children and so on for a long time. If I did my math correctly, Noah was about 60 years old when Adam died. I could be wrong though but it is very interesting to think about. Noah talking to Adam...WOW!
there are those who believe in Gap theory between 1.1 and 1.2
Traditional Jewish dating has Adam’s death more than 150 years before Noah’s birth. I believe this is traditional Christian understanding as well.
Great post!
The Bible is historical fact. It is His story. :)
high IQs are not limited to liberals....
Yeah, but that gets to my point. Why did God create evil in the first place? A loving God should not have created frail creatures to live in eternal punishment. It would have been better not to be born than to be born and sent to hell.
God is not the author of evil. That was Satan of course. It was man's disobedience to the Lord, in what was the paradise of Eden, that led to the spread of evil in the world.
Lest you think I have all the answers and am just parroting a glib reply, I've pinged pastorbillrandles, the initiator of this thread to get his take.
I'll also add that there's one question I have in terms of evil: What happens when Satan is ultimately vanquished? Is there any chance that a Heavenly being might go rogue again. Presuming that there's free will in Heaven, will its inhabitants be prevented from even considering evil for all of eternity?
Revelation — the separation of the sheep from the goats — forever.
But God created Satan knowing what Satan was going to do, and created Satan anyway. And in doing so, God created evil, the source of evil.
And infinity is a long time. Who knows if there will be another war of angels.
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