Difficult occurance in Bible

[RDKirk]

It's not necessary to agree about the mechanics of creation to accept that God is omnipresent and eternal--it's just a matter of grasping some of the ramifications of what "omnipresent" and "eternal" entails.

 

[asiyreh]

I thinks someone's already mentioned this but just to put it out there again in very clear terms.

Samuel mentions only a few lines later, within the very same chapter that you are not to think of God as someone who changes his mind.

God knows all true statements, and just to clarify God knows that it is true that all false statements are false. That is to say God has all knowledge, he knows the end from the beginning. Regret for God is the best way your limited human intelligence can grasp a concept.

Many of the old testament Kings are an example for us. Not how to act but rather how not to act.

How could we appreciate the sunshine if not for the rain?

God shows us again and again in the old testament, that his kingdom is not of this world and that no sinful man be it David or Saul is fit to rule God's kingdom.
Only God can rule his Kingdom and his will is righteous, whether we think so or not.

It was questioning of God's authority that got us all here in the first place. Those who enter God's kingdom will know this truth and know it well.

Here's a question for you:-

God has told us that we will judge angels:-

Do you not know that we will judge angels? How much more the things of this life! 1 Corinthians 6:3​

What if God asked you to execute his judgement against your own son. As he did with Abraham...

Would you do it?

By the way if there's any peps out there that thinks their hearing any strange voices, it's probably not God. I'm sure God would make things very clear to you if he intended you to do something.

But my apologies, back to the question. Would you? Would you do it...

 

[RDKirk]

It was questioning of God's authority that got us all here in the first place. Those who enter God's kingdom will know this truth and know it well.

Here's a question for you:-

God has told us that we will judge angels:-

Do you not know that we will judge angels? How much more the things of this life! 1 Corinthians 6:3​

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So, if God has known His own plan all along, and if He has known all along that He created man to judge angels, how can man be a judge without knowing good and evil, without comprehending the consequences of sin--comprehending them to such a depth that the dread of sin would last an eternity?

What would it take for one destined to judge angels to learn lessons of the consequences of good and evil that would last for eternity?

The LORD disciplines those he loves, as a father the son he delights in. -- Proverbs 3:12

The Lord disciplines the one he loves, and he chastens everyone he accepts as his son. -- Hebrews 12:6

No discipline seems pleasant at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it produces a harvest of righteousness and peace for those who have been trained by it. -- Hebrews 12:11

And the LORD God said, "The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil." -- Genesis 3:22

"He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever." -- Geneis 3:22

Well...not yet. The lesson isn't over.