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<blockquote data-quote="JohnRabbit" data-source="post: 71552316" data-attributes="member: 239234"><p><span style="color: #5900b3">we have a finite existence. so it is hard for us to comprehend something like that because God has a different type of existence than we do. God is not flesh and blood like you and me, He is a Spirit.</span></p><p><span style="color: #5900b3"></span></p><p><span style="color: #5900b3">we're not sure what that is, even. the five senses can't even detect spirit. that's one reason God doesn't' seem real to people. we do know that we have form of God, so in that way we know what He is shaped like.</span></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #5900b3">understood.</span></p><p><span style="color: #5900b3"></span></p><p><span style="color: #5900b3">they say the earth is around 4.5 billion years old and the bible can only be traced back 6,000 years or so. read the first two verses of genesis 1 and i think we can find some answers there.</span></p><p></p><p><strong>Genesis 1:1-2(NKJV) </strong></p><p><strong>1</strong>In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. <span style="color: #5900b3">(don't know how long ago this was)</span></p><p><strong>2</strong>The earth was without form, and void; and darkness <em>was</em> on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.</p><p></p><p><span style="color: #5900b3">there was time in between verse 1 and 2 and that may have been 4 billion years or so ago. it would eat up to much real estate in this post to give the detail explanation but there is one.</span></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #5900b3">God is reproducing Himself through man and earth is the "test bed". after that those in the kingdom to come could be given like their own galaxy and things. the potential is enormous for man. God has great thing in store for those who love Him. that' why we were created in His image, only in the physical sense. and the creation of man is <strong>not</strong> complete!</span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #5900b3">God did not create robots. He created sentient beings. He's has life and He has life to give. and He wanted to create beings who would enjoy their own individualism and at that would allow the created being to make his own choices. you see that now, you have the right to do anything you want and God won't hinder you.</span></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #5900b3">that comes to completing part of man being created. man has to develop character, IOWs, man must have time and experience to do so. the suffering is allowed to show us what it is like to live apart from Him. it's hard for Him to see what we do on this earth - see john 3:16. but He has a plan for it all.</span></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #5900b3">God was willing to show man everything, but it was man who turned from God, hence, God stepped back and essentially said to man "go on, with yo bad self".</span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #5900b3">again, through reading the early genesis account, it seems that the only people on earth who would listen to God back then were the ancestors of the israelites.</span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #5900b3">He won't! God is love and if one doesn't want to roll with God they will just be dead for all eternity. death by fire. this is done so that one won't have to be miserable forever.</span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #5900b3">there are prophesies that are still in place that have to happen and then He WILL return.</span></p><p><span style="color: #5900b3"></span></p><p><span style="color: #5900b3">because he can't help himself. angels, and that's what satan is, are spirit beings and they look nothing like God or man. they were created before man, but they too needed time to form character. but once their character was formed it cannot change. their charcter is set forever and those where on "the other side of the fence" when it set it cannot change now. some stayed loyal to God and some are on the side of the fence with satan. so satan feeds his selfishness even though he knows.</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="JohnRabbit, post: 71552316, member: 239234"] [COLOR=#5900b3]we have a finite existence. so it is hard for us to comprehend something like that because God has a different type of existence than we do. God is not flesh and blood like you and me, He is a Spirit. we're not sure what that is, even. the five senses can't even detect spirit. that's one reason God doesn't' seem real to people. we do know that we have form of God, so in that way we know what He is shaped like.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#5900b3]understood. they say the earth is around 4.5 billion years old and the bible can only be traced back 6,000 years or so. read the first two verses of genesis 1 and i think we can find some answers there.[/COLOR] [B]Genesis 1:1-2(NKJV) 1[/B]In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. [COLOR=#5900b3](don't know how long ago this was)[/COLOR] [B]2[/B]The earth was without form, and void; and darkness [I]was[/I] on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. [COLOR=#5900b3]there was time in between verse 1 and 2 and that may have been 4 billion years or so ago. it would eat up to much real estate in this post to give the detail explanation but there is one.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#5900b3]God is reproducing Himself through man and earth is the "test bed". after that those in the kingdom to come could be given like their own galaxy and things. the potential is enormous for man. God has great thing in store for those who love Him. that' why we were created in His image, only in the physical sense. and the creation of man is [B]not[/B] complete![/COLOR] [COLOR=#5900b3]God did not create robots. He created sentient beings. He's has life and He has life to give. and He wanted to create beings who would enjoy their own individualism and at that would allow the created being to make his own choices. you see that now, you have the right to do anything you want and God won't hinder you.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#5900b3]that comes to completing part of man being created. man has to develop character, IOWs, man must have time and experience to do so. the suffering is allowed to show us what it is like to live apart from Him. it's hard for Him to see what we do on this earth - see john 3:16. but He has a plan for it all.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#5900b3]God was willing to show man everything, but it was man who turned from God, hence, God stepped back and essentially said to man "go on, with yo bad self".[/COLOR] [COLOR=#5900b3]again, through reading the early genesis account, it seems that the only people on earth who would listen to God back then were the ancestors of the israelites.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#5900b3]He won't! God is love and if one doesn't want to roll with God they will just be dead for all eternity. death by fire. this is done so that one won't have to be miserable forever.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#5900b3]there are prophesies that are still in place that have to happen and then He WILL return.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#5900b3] because he can't help himself. angels, and that's what satan is, are spirit beings and they look nothing like God or man. they were created before man, but they too needed time to form character. but once their character was formed it cannot change. their charcter is set forever and those where on "the other side of the fence" when it set it cannot change now. some stayed loyal to God and some are on the side of the fence with satan. so satan feeds his selfishness even though he knows.[/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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