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childofgod1711 said:
"We must be doing something right,
or the enemy wouldnt be trying so hard to stop us."
...Nothing can be lost that is not first owned. Just as a parent is compelled by civil law to be responsible for his family and his property, so the Creator--by His own divine law--is compelled to take care of the children He has created. And that means not only caring for the good children, but for the bad ones and lost ones as well. So the word lost came to be for Mrs. Smith (Hannah W. Smith), a term of greatest comfort. If a person is a "lost sinner" it only means that he is temporarily separated from the Good Shepherd who owns him. The Shepherd is bound by all duties of ownership to go after all those who are lost until they are found.
To say on the authority of the Bible that God does a thing no honourable man would do, is to lie against God; to say that it is therefore right, is to lie against the very spirit of God. To uphold a lie for Gods sake is to be against God, not for him...But where an evil thing is invented to explain and account for a good thing, and a lover of God is called upon to believe the invention or be cast out, he needs not mind being cast out, for it is into the company of Jesus.[...Where there is no ground to believe that God does a thing except that men who would explain God have believed and taught it, he is not a true man who accepts men against his own conscience of God. I acknowledge no authority calling upon me to believe a thing of God, which I could not be a man and believe right in my fellow-man. I will accept no explanation of any way of God which explanation involves what I should scorn as false and unfair in a man.If you say, That may be right of God to do which it would not be right of man to do, I answer, Yes, because the relation of the maker to his creatures is very different from the relation of one of those creatures to another, and he has therefore duties toward his creatures requiring of him what no man would have the right to do to his fellow-man; but he can have no duty that is not both just and merciful.
More is required of the Maker, by his own act of creation, than can be required of men. More and higher justice and righteousness is required of him by himself, the Truth;greater nobleness, more penetrating sympathy; and nothing but what, if an honest man understood it, he would say was right. -George MacDonald-
Rockhead said:Free moral agency is an expression of human invention and to talk of the freedom of man is flatly to repudiate his spiritual ruin. Nowhere does Scripture speak of freedom or the ability of the sinner, on the contrary, it insists on his moral and spiritual inability. -A. W. Tozer
Those who exalt free choice believe God must operate only within the sphere of our sovereignty. -George MacDonald-
linchen said:God takes His best soldiers from the highlands of affliction.
Part of receiving Christ's grace of revelation is an experience of judgement, for in the light of the truth we see the falseness of what we have become... -Eriugena-
Repentance is but a kind of table-talk, till we see so much of the deformity of our inward nature as to be in some degree frightened and terrified at the sight of it. . . . A plausible form of an outward life, that has only learned rules and modes of religion by use and custom, often keeps the soul for some time at ease, though all its inward root and ground of sin has never been shaken or molested, though it has never tasted of the bitter waters of repentance and has only known the want of a Saviour by hearsay. But things cannot pass thus: sooner or later repentance must have a broken and a contrite heart; we must with our blessed Lord go over the brook Cedron, and with Him sweat great drops of sorrow before He can say for us, as He said for Himself: "It is finished." -William Law-
Unmitigated and eternal evil, really dethrones God, or at least shares his throne with him, which is equivalent to dethroning him. To say that evil is absolute and eternal, is to fully invest it with attributes peculiar to the God of glory, and thus to make the kingdom of darkness equal with God, at least in some respects. But this cannot be; at that rate there would be two supreme Beings, a good and a bad one, and each of them would eternally exist, and be eternal foes. To such a frightful conclusion does the doctrine of the endlessness of evil lead us; let those believe the ghastly thing who can!
Evil cannot exist forever!
Unmitigated and eternal evil, really dethrones God, or at least shares his throne with him, which is equivalent to dethroning him. To say that evil is absolute and eternal, is to fully invest it with attributes peculiar to the God of glory, and thus to make the kingdom of darkness equal with God, at least in some respects. But this cannot be; at that rate there would be two supreme Beings, a good and a bad one, and each of them would eternally exist, and be eternal foes. To such a frightful conclusion does the doctrine of the endlessness of evil lead us; let those believe the ghastly thing who can! Evil cannot exist forever!
barb754 said:A gem cannot be polished without friction; the child of God
cannot be perfected without adversity.
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