Posted on 07/28/2013 11:19:21 AM PDT by neverdem
More or less... there are some disputes over details but that’s the general thrust of the fall of the creation. The old earth and young earth creation theological camps probably won’t see eye to eye anytime sooner than the return of the Lord, but both perceive a metaphysical shift, rooted in a spiritual shift, that came with men accepting the sin of the rebellious angels. And one important point to note, as in the case of the man born blind that Jesus healed, is that not all suffering is due to one’s own personal sins. It is part of being in a battle zone.
Hopefully others have presented better answers than I have furnished. But I think to sum up, yep we are in a spiritual war zone. God folds suffering into His plan in an omniscient, omnipotent manner to, among other things, show people the need of returning to God even while refraining from forcing their will. Really, to some people God could never do anything to satisfy them. If God forced their wills then they’d call God a manipulative tyrant. If God refrains then they’d accuse God of being vague and difficult. Now if you take this as an accusation to sufferers that they have somehow earned their suffering through sinning, you have warped my message. Because mercy is also folded into His plan.
Well Dawg, you got to see what happens when scientific pursuit worships itself and forgets the roots it once had in the pursuit of the divine. We can have valid arguments over “HOW” God did something, but not over “WHETHER” God did something, unless we want to try to wrench ourselves artificially out of the hands of God.
ah, ignore the heckling trolls who have nothing but negative comments and nothing constructive to offer.
They’re trying to trap your mind in a cage of surmises, without being challenged on their surmises. It is so easy to damn the good because it isn’t perfect and that’s an infantile, sinful game. It’s not as easy to figure out how to make the good better.
Frankly I don't care if it's "just a placebo" I want the pain to go away.
Oh, that’s a massive huge 10-4 with whipped cream AND sprinkles!
Scientism is clearly a false religion as can be shown by the inductive process. In particular it weakens the mind. The unawareness that what a thing IS might be importantly different from what it is MADE OF, or that how a thing comes to be might be different from why or to what purpose it came to be ... this kind of unawareness is just sloppy. But it’s a sloppiness Scientism fosters.
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