Save me! I'm outta here.
Posted on 08/25/2011 12:58:54 PM PDT by Gritty
If He does not allow it, why is there a world full of it?
Of course He allows it. He must allow it because God is in control of everything. Satan does not run around totally unchecked. His power is not unlimited.
Just because God permits something to occur does not mean He’s happy about it. Of course it does not. He sent Jesus Christ, His only Son, to the cross for billions of peoples’ sins. He allowed that to occur. Was He happy that had to go that way? If there was any other way do you not think God would have not have done it? Just because He allows something doesn’t mean He’s happy that some people will suffer.
Do you realize that through personal suffering there have been people that have come to believe in God? That for these people it may have been the only way they would have, and God knew that? What kind of God would God be if He spared these people a little pain now, but they wound up not knowing Him, separated from Him for eternity? What if they needed to go through something personally unpleasant, but wound up believing in God, and would spend eternity with Him?
I’d take a little pain now for an eternity free of pain, with God. Knowing I am a sinner (and saint) at the same time, I know that I will deal with adversity in the world, my body will wear out, I will die, and God will allow this to happen. I could also die in a car crash tomorrow, that God knows will happen, and doesn’t prevent. I will die one way or the other. Because there are consequences to my sin. I know He still loves me and I know He promised to save me if I believe in Him and what He’s done for me - paying my sin debt in full.
You keep saying “Not my God” - I am afraid your God isn’t the God of the bible, then. He disciplines His own. God is able to bring good out of all things, to those that love Him.
We seem to have introduced a sort of cognitive dissonance on this thread.
I prefer our tack.
Save me! I'm outta here.
I wouldn't presume to know, tho there are surely those who think they do !
Here's my standard reply when finding I've insanely wandered into a religious thread:
.. cuz it makes about as much sense as anything else, with an equal claim on a pipeline !
..."No loss known, no loss experienced, I always say," said a man on your behalf.
"That's the trouble with life," added another man, "someone else is always speaking for you,"
as he grimacingly rolled his eyes upward in his head,
as though indicating that he was referring to his own head.
So he skipped a stone.
Read up on covenants...And how God will not break them.
You can start there.
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