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To: SkyDancer

Doesn’t He know what your sins will be, before you even commit them or are even born? Why would He breath life into someone that He knows will commit these sins?


14 posted on 11/30/2011 12:15:58 PM PST by stuartcr ("Everything happens as God wants it to...otherwise, things would be different.")
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To: stuartcr

It is a good thing, and I thank Him for it, that He is not like you, stuart.

You keep posing questions from a ‘mocking’ viewpoint. What IS the purpose of this question? It is somewhat sophomoric. Your focus seems to be on the ‘here and now’, completely ‘humanistic’.

Obviously, from your question, you might not allow life to one that would not do as you wished. Again, I thank God He is not like that. While you / I / we are not worthy of His love, we have it.


19 posted on 11/30/2011 12:40:27 PM PST by RoadGumby (For God so loved the world)
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To: stuartcr; SkyDancer
Doesn’t He know what your sins will be, before you even commit them or are even born? Why would He breath life into someone that He knows will commit these sins?

You cannot put God into your box, and tell him what He should and should not do. The concept of God is that He IS the Creator, and we are the created. It took Job a long trial to get to the right end point, and the poor guy was whacked around pretty roughly - more than any of us could ever have lasted - but he finally understood:

Job 42
1 Then Job answered the LORD, and said,
2 I know that thou canst do every thing, and that no thought can be withholden from thee.
3 Who is he that hideth counsel without knowledge? therefore have I uttered that I understood not; things too wonderful for me, which I knew not.
4 Hear, I beseech thee, and I will speak: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me.
5 I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee.
6 Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.

Job understood. God IS God. We know He is Good, but we aren't going to know all of the details that are going on in this universe. We may not like when certain things happen (certainly suffering is tough to enjoy), but we know He who does all things right is in charge, and we rest in that knowledge.
And in short, Paul responds to your question in Romans 9:

19 Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault? For who hath resisted his will?
20 Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?
21a Hath not the potter power over the clay ...

21 posted on 11/30/2011 12:48:51 PM PST by El Cid (Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house...)
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