Ping!
“So the question presents, Why then would God waste any seed on rocky or thin soil, or the path?”
Because good seed will grow even in the most adverse conditions.
So he knows ahead of time those who will reject Him?
And don’t forget extravagant. I love that part!
Yes, He knows who will reject Him...He is outside of time and space and knew everything before He made it.
Wouldn’t we all like to be loved by Someone like this on planet earth? Very few do get that and it’s hard to imagine that kind of love especially if you’ve come from a hateful and unloving environment but it is so true and I love it.
I like to imagine which of those 100 billion galaxies I might get to hang out on for eternity and what I’d do there.
No eye has seen, no ear has heard, and no mind has imagined what God has prepared for those who love him.” 1 Corinthians 2:9
You will say to me then, “Why does he still find fault? For who can resist his will?”
But who are you, O man, to answer back to God? Will what is molded say to its molder, “Why have you made me like this?”
Has the potter no right over the clay, to make out of the same lump one vessel for honorable use and another for dishonorable use?
What if God, desiring to show his wrath and to make known his power, has endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction,
in order to make known the riches of his glory for vessels of mercy, which he has prepared beforehand for glory— even us whom he has called, not from the Jews only but also from the Gentiles?
-- Romans 9:19-24No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him.
--John 6:44a
Even Peter had a couple of moments of unfaithfulness.
We are human not yet Sons of God. Some will stray, some will waiver, some will hold fast. That’s the answer...............
ping for later
This is a typical atheist taunt.
“If God already knows how its all going to work out, why bother playing the game?”
Where does it say Christ is the sower? One must, need read the answer Christ gave to grasp what is being taught.
I’m making a guess here, but God is showing his self assurance when he makes people who will reject him. Think of it, if you had infinite power and resources, would you yourself make things that would curse your name and seek to destroy you? I wouldn’t. And I’m sure anyone reading this would not do so, too. But God did, which shows how much bigger He is than most if not all of us.
Our vacation Bible School ended today and the priest did an excellent job of bringing this down to their level. Even talked about blackberry bushes with thorns, which all kids in Oregon know about.