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The Incarnation.
-CryptoLutheran
According to the Bible, nature reveals that God is good
I'll actually disagree with this: I think that slavery was a totally different institution in ancient Israel, and that some people might actually want to become slaves. I don't think there was any oppression or abuse as the word "slavery" has come to connote.
I guess my point was that anything God commands is good. I was wondering if anyone on this thread disagreed with anything that God commanded anywhere in Scripture.
In other words, the Bible, if believed, teaches that nature testifies to his goodness. But if you aren't first persuaded that the Bible is to be believed, you're not likely to conclude that God is good simply because of its contents.
bling is correct in his implication that in slavery--as in divorce--God was permitting with strict limitations a moral compromise because of the sheer inability of that Bronze Age rabble to be any better.
I don't agree with you. The Torah is the immutable and inviolable law of God, and everything in it reflects the nature of God. I don't think that God is going to give in to cultural "peer pressure" when it comes to good and evil.
Two things, one I would point out that no one should tempt the Lord God with these type of questions, but since they asked it of me, it is my duty as a Christian to engage and offer a witness. So secondly I would tell this person that God desires us to seek him with all of our hearts and then we will find Him, and that a requirement of our righteousness is to believe God, as he told Abraham, because you believed in me I account it unto you as righteousness. So why would God "prove Himself" or allow anyone else to prove God exists, when that (faith) is what God has chosen as a vehicle to come unto Him by. W can only give our witness of God in our lives. Each person has to come to God through faith.What would you say if someone asked you to prove that God is good?
It has nothing to do with "peer pressure" and I don't even know where you got that idea from what I said.
Jesus is the one who said, "Moses permitted you to divorce your wives because your hearts were hard."
And it was Jesus who told the parable in which He said,"....To one he gave five talents,to another two, to another one, to each according to his ability."
God certainly did make His demands and requirements with consideration to what those people were actually capable of doing.
God made everything that is, and called it very good in Genesis. Jesus asked rhetorically, : ''Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.'' implying that bad does not come from good.
Yes! Isn't it interesting how he used the word "cannot" in that passage? Almost as though the nature of something is uncontrollable?
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