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I see man as a being created by God to respond to Gods will, not be dominated by it.
Eggzactly! Give the man a cigar!Why did God create Satan to rebel against Him? So that God could prove something?
LOL. This shows why you are like Eve in the Garden of Eden. Declaring that you will NOT be dominated by God's will and so even YOU want to be the one who eats of the tree of good and evil and to govern your own will. Sorry, even your thinking this way is governed by God!
"I want my free will!"
Proverbs 16:4 The LORD has made all for Himself, Yes, even the wicked for the day of doom.
I believe GodsElect has found many of the appropriate scriptures to refute your claims as stated above I just pray you are able to grasp the truth of the scriptures posted for you. So I would like to add these thoughts and verses.So the hooker, the man who kills her, the adulter and the family he destroys, the child molester and the Columbine killers are all acting exactly the way God would have it. Sorry,.
Even the evil which Josephs brothers sinned against him was ordained for the good of Gods purposes and His people. Even the evil that was perpetrated against Abraham and his whole household after they all came to Egypt was for a greater good to be freed from under the tyranny of the Pharaoh, so that Gods chosen people Israel would call out to Him and for the destruction of Pharaoh in the Red Sea. And this process still continues to this day evil for good all ordained for Gods greater and eternal purpose for the sake of His Son, His people and His kingdom not mans.I don't see God as appointing every evil deed that we do
So I see you are learning the standard Arminian teachings, but the bible saysBesides, saying that everything that happens is Gods will would have to mean that God and Satan are one. God sets up all the evil so Satan would be just a name for Gods dark side.
Thank you for your concern about my salvation but you need not worry. Jesus is my Lord and Saviour. My faith is in Him and He has saved me just as He has you.BOXMAKER, I dont know if you care to read this, but I pray this will help.
Nahum 1:2-9 God is jealous, and the LORD avenges; The LORD avenges and is furious. The LORD will take vengeance on His adversaries, And He reserves wrath for His enemies; 3 The LORD is slow to anger and great in power, And will not at all acquit the wicked. The LORD has His way In the whirlwind and in the storm, And the clouds are the dust of His feet. 4 He rebukes the sea and makes it dry, And dries up all the rivers. Bashan and Carmel wither, And the flower of Lebanon wilts. 5 The mountains quake before Him, The hills melt, And the earth heaves at His presence, Yes, the world and all who dwell in it. 6 Who can stand before His indignation? And who can endure the fierceness of His anger? His fury is poured out like fire, And the rocks are thrown down by Him. 7 The LORD is good, A stronghold in the day of trouble; And He knows those who trust in Him. (HIS WORD) 8 But with an overflowing flood He will make an utter end of its place, And darkness will pursue His enemies. 9 What do you conspire against the LORD? He will make an utter end of it. Affliction will not rise up a second time.
Isaiah 55:8-11 "For My thoughts are not your thoughts, Nor are your ways My ways," says the LORD. 9 "For as the heavens are higher than the earth, So are My ways higher than your ways, And My thoughts than your thoughts. 10 "For as the rain comes down, and the snow from heaven, And do not return there, But water the earth, And make it bring forth and bud, That it may give seed to the sower And bread to the eater, 11 So shall My word be that goes forth from My mouth; It shall not return to Me void, But it shall accomplish what I please, And it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it.
Isaiah 40:28 Have you not known? Have you not heard? The everlasting God, the LORD, The Creator of the ends of the earth, Neither faints nor is weary. His understanding is unsearchable.
BOXMAKER, We agree that there are many things hard to understand, but that which is revealed in scripture is what we must believe. Just because we dont understand, does not give us the right to call Gods word into question. Should we find supposed contradictions in scripture, would only mean that we are accusing God of being in error. We should rather be looking into our own hearts and realizing that we must be the ones in error and on our knees with great tears for our accusations against His holy truth, crying out for mercy and greater understanding least we find ourselves condemned for our handling the word deceitfully even unknowingly we are without excuse because God has given us His word for our learning not mans opinion. To call Gods word, His motives, His purposes, His power, His justice, His love for His plan into question really shows that a person does not really believe in the God of scripture, but prefers a god of their own making, thus making Him a mans puppet of imagination.
I believe GodsElect has found many of the appropriate scriptures to refute your claims as stated above I just pray you are able to grasp the truth of the scriptures posted for you. So I would like to add these thoughts and verses.
Remember when Joseph was sold into slavery into Egypt by his own brothers a wicked and sinful action, yes, Abraham was distraught for his whole life, because he loved Joseph. Yet Joseph became 2nd to the King of Egypt in time. Gen 50:19 Joseph said to them, Do not be afraid, for am I in the place of God? 20 But as for you, you meant evil against me; but God meant it for good, in order to bring it about as it is this day, to save many people alive. (Notice the text does not say all people).
Even the evil which Josephs brothers sinned against him was ordained for the good of Gods purposes and His people. Even the evil that was perpetrated against Abraham and his whole household after they all came to Egypt was for a greater good to be freed from under the tyranny of the Pharaoh, so that Gods chosen people Israel would call out to Him and for the destruction of Pharaoh in the Red Sea. And this process still continues to this day evil for good all ordained for Gods greater and eternal purpose for the sake of His Son, His people and His kingdom not mans.
Gods ways are not mans ways, His every action is good, mans ways are always for self.
So I see you are learning the standard Arminian teachings, but the bible says
36 Then the angel of the LORD went out, and killed in the camp of the Assyrians one hundred and eighty-five thousand; and when people arose early in the morning, there were the corpsesall dead.
1 Kings 22:21 Then a spirit came forward and stood before the LORD, and said, I will persuade him. 22 The LORD said to him, In what way? So he said, I will go out and be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. And the LORD said, You shall persuade him, and also prevail. Go out and do so. 23 Therefore look! The LORD has put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these prophets of yours, and the LORD has declared disaster against you.
I do expect youll come back with some other standard Arminian remark like Oh thats the God of the Old Testament. I pray youll understand the bible is all one testament of the triune God, Christ, and Holy Spirit, and is given for His children seeking the truth, not reading it for arguing against it. Is that what you do to your parents, try to find things to use against them?
I am concerned for your salvation and the things you are learning from the Arminian camp and pray you can see where you stand, at this time and if you were to die today.
1 And the word of the LORD came to me, saying, 2 Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel who prophesy, and say to those who prophesy out of their own heart, Hear the word of the LORD! 3 Thus says the Lord GOD: Woe to the foolish prophets, who follow their own spirit and have seen nothing! 4 O Israel, your prophets are like foxes in the deserts. 5 You have not gone up into the gaps to build a wall for the house of Israel to stand in battle on the day of the LORD. 6 They have envisioned futility and false divination, saying, Thus says the LORD! But the LORD has not sent them; yet they hope that the word may be confirmed. 7 Have you not seen a futile vision, and have you not spoken false divination? You say, The LORD says, but I have not spoken.
8 Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Because you have spoken nonsense and envisioned lies, therefore I am indeed against you, says the Lord GOD. 9 My hand will be against the prophets who envision futility and who divine lies; they shall not be in the assembly of My people, nor be written in the record of the house of Israel, nor shall they enter into the land of Israel. Then you shall know that I am the Lord GOD. 10 Because, indeed, because they have seduced My people, saying, Peace! when there is no peaceand one builds a wall, and they plaster it with untempered mortar 11 say to those who plaster it with untempered mortar, that it will fall.
I dont know if there is anything else we can do for you?
Sincerely, FreeInChrist2
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LOL. This shows why you are like Eve in the Garden of Eden. Declaring that you will NOT be dominated by God's will and so even YOU want to be the one who eats of the tree of good and evil and to govern your own will. Sorry, even your thinking this way is governed by God!
"I want my free will!"
Proverbs 16:4 The LORD has made all for Himself, Yes, even the wicked for the day of doom.
So things just happen that are out of God's control? Trials that come to Christians are not "punishment". Jesus took all our punishment upon Himself. They may be chastisement, or they may also be the means by which God increases our faith and teaches us patience and trust. We do not always understand the why, or even appreciate the trial, but scripture tells us to "count it all joy". And God is in control of it all.Cancer happened. We didn't choose it and God didn't send it upon my wife as some punishment for something.
In broad terms, the extreme Calvinist view is that God is control of every second of our lives. Everything we say, do, think and feel has been predestined. Every thing that happens to us, good or bad (from our point of view) was ordained by God. God handpicks each of us for heaven or hell since the beginning of time.
Would you want your God any other way??? But you dont even have a choice in that! He IS!For the Calvinist, God must be in control of everything or He just cannot be God.
Open Theists must have a God that allows free will or God just couldn’t be God.
We have only made God in the image of which His word Gives us, and has revealed Himself to us through His word, and All Things are created, exsist, and are sustained by His word.But it still seems we are guilty of making God in our own image and then swearing that it was the guidance of the Holy Spirit that revealed to us that our concept of God is right.
Do you see the irony?GodsElect said:God IS in controll of everything!!!! Always has been!
Would you want your God any other way??? But you dont even have a choice in that! He IS!Boxmaker said:For the Calvinist, God must be in control of everything or He just cannot be God.
Do you see the irony?
In broad terms, the extreme Calvinist view is that God is control of every second of our lives. Everything we say, do, think and feel has been predestined.
I posted a musing about how all of us are guilty of making God in our own image. We all assert that our truth is the only truth and we all have our proof texts, given to us by the Holy Spirit, to prove our point. GodsElect responded with a vigorus assertion that Calvinism is the only real truth and supported his assertion with several proof texts. His post was exactly in line with my post and it seems he never even paused to ponder what I said.Forgive me, but I don't see your irony. Please explain in more detail with scriptual proofs so that I may be enlightened.
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