Isaiah 45:7 I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.
There is a partnership with God and Creation that allows for both predestination and freewill to be correct. God can no more be blamed for everything then it can be said he has no influence at all. The hardening and opening of hearts and sometimes ideas that come to us are the mysterious way in which he moves.
So if God is the ultimate authority, creating good and evil, all the more reason to fear him. Do you want to end in a burning lake?
Do you presume, with limited knowledge, to know better then God?
He knows the hearts of people and he works with the cultures of the time. The hearts and cultures of the old testament were harsh and severe, though God received more fear and respect as well.
And if one day reincarnation can be proven to exist in the Bible, then there is an unseen angle onto what someone deserves to have happen because of previous lifetimes. We do not know, and we cannot say.
But the bitterness between you and God can dissolve if you will humble yourself. If God will accept a sinner through Christ's atoning blood, then will you accept an almighty God that does what he deems righteous, though you question it?
Lastly, what western culture calls God's judgment the easterners call Karma. If you don't forgive others you can't be forgiven. Judge not lest ye be judged for the in the way you judge others you will be judged according to the same. In other words, what you do and think comes back to you.
Therefore, to understand some seemingly evil calamity in the old testament, you have to know the hearts of men, the culture of the times, the perceptions of God by which he works with us in different and unique ways.
Severity has been demonstrated, but in the new covenant God is even more merciful, more forgiving, and wishes for us to walk in the spirit of love, not by mere observance to law for the sake of lawfulness.
He that has not the law, perishes without the law. He that is under the law, is judged by the law and must fulfill all of it. He that follows the law without knowing it is a law onto himself. In the hearts of gentiles God's law is written.
Lastly, many people did think Yahweh was a bloodthirsty monster back then. They are called serpent gnostics, or mystery babylon. http://jesus-messiah.com/w-preach/wp-nt-17.html
they worshipped eve as harlot and mother of life and the serpent they thought was the good god, and called Yahweh the bad God.
There is a partnership with God and Creation that allows for both predestination and freewill to be correct. God can no more be blamed for everything then it can be said he has no influence at all. The hardening and opening of hearts and sometimes ideas that come to us are the mysterious way in which he moves.
So if God is the ultimate authority, creating good and evil, all the more reason to fear him. Do you want to end in a burning lake?
Do you presume, with limited knowledge, to know better then God?
He knows the hearts of people and he works with the cultures of the time. The hearts and cultures of the old testament were harsh and severe, though God received more fear and respect as well.
And if one day reincarnation can be proven to exist in the Bible, then there is an unseen angle onto what someone deserves to have happen because of previous lifetimes. We do not know, and we cannot say.
But the bitterness between you and God can dissolve if you will humble yourself. If God will accept a sinner through Christ's atoning blood, then will you accept an almighty God that does what he deems righteous, though you question it?
Lastly, what western culture calls God's judgment the easterners call Karma. If you don't forgive others you can't be forgiven. Judge not lest ye be judged for the in the way you judge others you will be judged according to the same. In other words, what you do and think comes back to you.
Therefore, to understand some seemingly evil calamity in the old testament, you have to know the hearts of men, the culture of the times, the perceptions of God by which he works with us in different and unique ways.
Severity has been demonstrated, but in the new covenant God is even more merciful, more forgiving, and wishes for us to walk in the spirit of love, not by mere observance to law for the sake of lawfulness.
He that has not the law, perishes without the law. He that is under the law, is judged by the law and must fulfill all of it. He that follows the law without knowing it is a law onto himself. In the hearts of gentiles God's law is written.
Lastly, many people did think Yahweh was a bloodthirsty monster back then. They are called serpent gnostics, or mystery babylon. http://jesus-messiah.com/w-preach/wp-nt-17.html
they worshipped eve as harlot and mother of life and the serpent they thought was the good god, and called Yahweh the bad God.
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