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Yes, thank you for another verse confirming what I believe, even as you said. "ALL are under God's control"...and therefore it is up to God to either kill them all or save them all.
Rom 9:27 And Isaiah exclaims about Israel: "Even if the people of Israel are as many as the grains of sand by the sea, yet only a few of them will be saved;
NO, He will rescue Only those who love Him; not so with the ungodlyI've decided he has a better plan than 'purposeless eternal torture' or 'eternal death through annihilation'. Only in fulfilling His plan of saving ALL "in due time" can "the last enemy to be destroyed/apollumi is death."
1TI 2:6 Who gave himself a ransom for ALL, to be testified in due time.
Amen, He accepts responsibility for all He has created....including "the smith" and his purgative flames'.
Psa 91:14 God says, "I will save those who love me and will protect those who acknowledge me as LORD. 15 When they call to me, I will answer them; when they are in trouble, I will be with them. I will rescue them and honor them. 16 I will reward them with long life; I will save them."
You have need to learn that Mercy is the knowledge of GodAnd why is He not destroying Israel in the quoted verse, instead of just destroying their pagan altars?
Is it because they were "chosen". And chosen 'not' because of anything they had ever done. And when He finally 'chooses' everyone in the "due time" of "ages to come", they too will be dealt with, in spite of what they have done, by a God whose "MERCY endurath forever", even though "he retaineth not his anger for ever, because he delighteth in mercy." A good word for sure brother...and a word for ALL.....including you, I might add.
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Hos 6:6 For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings
1Pe 2:9 But you are the chosen race, the King's priests, the holy nation, God's own people, chosen to proclaim the wonderful acts of God, who called you out of darkness into his own marvelous light.
10 At one time you were not God's people, but now you are his people; at one time you did not know God's mercy, but now you have received his mercy.
Psa 102:13 You will rise and take pity on Zion; the time has come to have mercy on her; this is the right time.
I BOLDLY confess!If you are an annihilationist...boldly confess such.
The likeness is to obey God then you are protected and by grace will be resurrected to eternal life.I do consider annihilation as a 'more' merciful God, just not as merciful as one who doesn't eternally kill and thereby never destroying death. I much prefer the God Jesus represents and reveals both in action/parable and with his own life, as to how God "Kills and makes alive again" even as the seed dies but results in subsequent life. Such is the "likeness of God" that I believe in and strive to emulate.
Psa 91:9 You have made the LORD your defender, the Most High your protector, 10 and so no disaster will strike you, no violence will come near your home. 11 God will put his angels in charge of you to protect you wherever you go.
But least you forget that God is a consuming fire.
Pro 6:27 Can you carry fire against your chest without burning your clothes?
DEU 32:39 See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand.
Pro 3:33 The LORD puts a curse on the homes of the wicked, but blesses the homes of the righteous.Too bad the hand (of thedevil/Satan/serprent/dragon???)trump's the 'God-likeness' of most "Christians"...all IMO of course.
No, as I have stated and you should know by now, it is GOD alone who creates good and evil and He certainly does not need any help from people who wish to blame it on a superstitous belief of "fallen angels". Angels cannot fall, angels cannot sin, they can only do the will of God.Take your POV to its 'creative' end. He created sinners and unholy angels. Again I say 'unholy' just for a name for the 1/3. Maybe I better ask, do you even ascribe to the 1/3 fallen angels theology?
2PE 2:4 For if God spared not the messengers <G32> that sinned, but cast them down to Hell/Tartarus,Hades.. the GRAVE! G32: a messengerAs far as all you quoted on Tartarus to prove; "The Bible does not recognize Tatarus as a place of punishment, but as a Greek/Roman MYTH." My bible just doesn't line up with all that. 2PE 2:4 For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell/Tartarus, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;"'
2Pe 2:9 The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment:
Job 21:32 Yet shall he be brought to the grave, and shall remain in the tomb.
Ps 1:5 Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.
Pro 16:4 The LORD hath made all things for himself: yea, even the wicked for the day of evil.
Job 31:11 Such wickedness should be punished by death.
12 It would be like a destructive, hellish <H11> fire, consuming everything I have. H11 'ăbaddôn; concretely Hades: - destruction. אבדּון [GNB]
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