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This is off topic, but I wanted to remark on it too soon: I don't recall thinking about it so graphically, but your mention of Romans 9, the vessels, might be more literal than I had been thinking. I'll have to look them up, but I recall him saying concerning God's wrath, guilt etc, "fill up then..."! Curious.I was simply thinking that someone with Divine Wisdom would not ask this question.
Someone who loved the Lord and knew His Word already knows the answer, in many ways.
For example:
Romans 9:
22 What if God, wanting to show His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath prepared for destruction,
23 and that He might make known the riches of His glory on the vessels of mercy, which
He had prepared beforehand for glory.
So now we can use the logic that we have spoken of and ask:
If the Lord has promised that He is preparing a place for us where there will be no sin and death,
or rape, how exactly does that play out in your understanding if you do not live in a world of sin
and death because He is preventing it?
This involves completely ignoring or not believing in a day of Judgment,
and the eternal implications.
This is not about a greater good. It is perfect good, with no evil.
The universe will have to wait, right along with the rest of us.
Romans 8:
18 For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy
to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.
19 For the earnest expectation of the creation eagerly waits for the revealing
of the sons of God.
20 For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of Him who
subjected it in hope;
21 because the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of corruption
into the glorious liberty of the children of God.
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