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Should we ever stop asking?
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Is it not that they are yet not readied for the rule of love and the kingdom of God not readied yet to receive billions of gentiles [heathen] ?
Are the few kings and priests required not readied first [Rev 5:10, Matt 7:14, Rev 7:3-8] for their later perfect service in salvation to countless billions of heathen of all nations [Rev 7:9-10] who go through destruction in death first , for sin in this world [1 Cor 5:5 ,Matt 7:13, Rom 6:23, Rom 6;7] ?
Is it not rather wonderful how, with great power of His truth and love, God deals eventually comprehensively with all evil through Jesus Christ in just three phases of His written plan , whilst mankind simply cannot achieve peace, love, happiness ,equality,justice, for all with all our technology and supposed 'progress'... ?
... Is not the main 'problem' [that God solves in stages for us] that: all money, and thus what most men think is power, is accumulated into the hands of the most evil few who thus think the run this world , at otherwise-theoretically-endless loss to many ?
Is this not how men forget to love , as their hearts and consciences require of them to do ,and God commands through Jesus Christ , but expecting few to agree wholly [and at great personal sacrifice in persecution , baptism of trial by fire - Matthew 3:11, 1 Peter 1:7] as yet ?
How many can one then expect to stop and listen only to God , not men, in this world ?
Who does one want then to taech one, God or man ?
Is God's word enough ?
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Are the few kings and priests required not readied first [Rev 5:10, Matt 7:14, Rev 7:3-8] for their later perfect service in salvation to countless billions of heathen of all nations [Rev 7:9-10] who go through destruction in death first , for sin in this world [1 Cor 5:5 ,Matt 7:13, Rom 6:23, Rom 6;7] ?
Is it not rather wonderful how, with great power of His truth and love, God deals eventually comprehensively with all evil through Jesus Christ in just three phases of His written plan , whilst mankind simply cannot achieve peace, love, happiness ,equality,justice, for all with all our technology and supposed 'progress'... ?
... Is not the main 'problem' [that God solves in stages for us] that: all money, and thus what most men think is power, is accumulated into the hands of the most evil few who thus think the run this world , at otherwise-theoretically-endless loss to many ?
Is this not how men forget to love , as their hearts and consciences require of them to do ,and God commands through Jesus Christ , but expecting few to agree wholly [and at great personal sacrifice in persecution , baptism of trial by fire - Matthew 3:11, 1 Peter 1:7] as yet ?
How many can one then expect to stop and listen only to God , not men, in this world ?
How many are later saved , who go by the broad way of all but these few ?
Is this not what God says then, and rather different than what divided mass religion teaches at this time?
Who does one want then to taech one, God or man ?
Is God's word enough ?
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Are not questions more interesting than answers... because one cannot be dogmatic in a question ... so it is always open ?
Is that not the very spirit of this thread, open-ness by questioning alone ... ?
Is that not the very spirit of this thread, open-ness by questioning alone ... ?
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Does it seem to everyone else that everyone stopped asking questions , but they still disagree with each other [and thus, at least most people , with God] ?
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I thought you meant by the title: should we ever stop asking God for what we really want.
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Are all questions not ultimately asked of God ?
Is there anyone but God who can give us what we truly want? [as distinct from what for a while we may get conned into thinking that we want?]
[1 Thessalonians 4:9 But as touching brotherly love ye need not that I write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another.]
Is love [agape] not what we all most deeply want and desire to give ,and God the only one who can re-educate us to understand that this is what we want and need ?
Is there anyone but God who can give us what we truly want? [as distinct from what for a while we may get conned into thinking that we want?]
[1 Thessalonians 4:9 But as touching brotherly love ye need not that I write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another.]
Is love [agape] not what we all most deeply want and desire to give ,and God the only one who can re-educate us to understand that this is what we want and need ?
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Perhaps consider how few will renew their mind in this generation under the new covenant of grace [Jer 31:31-34, Matt 7:14, Rev 7:3-8] and why so few are required yet by God ?
Why so many have to wait until much later? [Rev 7:9-10]
Why so many have to wait until much later? [Rev 7:9-10]
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Do people not still get 'disappeared' in this world , even on a supposedly 'christian' site [even for referring to the scriptures that disprove core beliefs of modern creedal religionism] ?
Are folks not disenfranchised by imaginary powers wielded by fools who wish to deny there is but One Truth, not the many proposed by men in frocks and their secular masters ... ?
Was this thread not conceived to be a way of expressing the truth without any possibility of dogmatism ?
Do most men prefer the uncomfortable truth about life or the soothsayings of the ungodly who run our institutions as companies for 'profit' measured b empty promises [on bits of paper and in machines, supported by corrupted laws of state and diverse creeds of men] ?
Can there be more than one Truth of God consistent with all scripture ?
Who truly seeks diligently the Truth from the Source alone ?
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