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But the fact is, God allows everything to happen by default.
So when bad things happen, we really cannot attach any significance to them. Unless He tells us, we really cannot know why they happen, nor can we use them to define God and His will. The most basic statement we can make is that He allows everything, good and bad to happen all the time. He can intervien... but those interventions are the exception, not the rule. So the only time we can actually use events to define His will and nature are those times when He intervenes. Such as Jesus, the gospel, God telling satan to not touch, and then not kill Job. These are interventions and they define God. What satan tried to do to Job is the everyday business of his existence. Satan has standing permission to kill, steal, destroy, and devour whomever he can. Just as you, I or any other created being does. He does not need permission, only opportunity. So when Satan does what he always does, we cannot derive anything about God or His nature by suggesting God "allowed" it for some special purpose or plan. There is no plan. It is just satan doing what he always does according to the laws of nature and creation that have been in place since the founding of the world.
This is yet another of the many errors of the mere theist mindset. It causes good people to malign God, reject the effective lordship of Jesus, and destroy the faith of those hapless souls who are unfortunate enough to hear and believe what they are say.
GOD IS GOOD!
BELIEVE IT!
Of course He allows bad things to happen.However add the words "does Go allow" IE..Job...
But the fact is, God allows everything to happen by default.
So when bad things happen, we really cannot attach any significance to them. Unless He tells us, we really cannot know why they happen, nor can we use them to define God and His will. The most basic statement we can make is that He allows everything, good and bad to happen all the time. He can intervien... but those interventions are the exception, not the rule. So the only time we can actually use events to define His will and nature are those times when He intervenes. Such as Jesus, the gospel, God telling satan to not touch, and then not kill Job. These are interventions and they define God. What satan tried to do to Job is the everyday business of his existence. Satan has standing permission to kill, steal, destroy, and devour whomever he can. Just as you, I or any other created being does. He does not need permission, only opportunity. So when Satan does what he always does, we cannot derive anything about God or His nature by suggesting God "allowed" it for some special purpose or plan. There is no plan. It is just satan doing what he always does according to the laws of nature and creation that have been in place since the founding of the world.
This is yet another of the many errors of the mere theist mindset. It causes good people to malign God, reject the effective lordship of Jesus, and destroy the faith of those hapless souls who are unfortunate enough to hear and believe what they are say.
GOD IS GOOD!
BELIEVE IT!
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