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You believe God controls everything, right? Even the choosing of who will be saved and who will not, correct. You believe that He is the creator of all, right?
Then why did He repeatedly visit punishment upon them for their failure to obey when He full well knew that they couldn’t? Would it not be cruel of me to set standards that my children cannot keep and then punish them for not keeping them?
God does require perfection from them. Absolute perfection even as the father is perfect. But, he also offers that perfection to all those who believe in him. It is not a question as to whether God imputes righteousness to those who believe in him but it is a question of whether or not he pre-chooses certain people to receive that perfection While others are left in their sin and punished for committing deeds they cannot help but commit.
If Satan is God’s devil then all the evil devil does and all the pain and suffering and sorrow that he puts up on this earth also belongs to God. In essence this doctrine teaches that God is the author of evil as well as good.
He did not, because they could not. But he did give them free will choice to accept and believe in Jesus Christ who is eternal life.
How is creating a sinful planet with pain and suffering bringing him glory? What glory does he get for plunging the world into sin and then choosing a few out of it too put irresistible grace upon.
Not if you listen carefully to what I’m saying. It is only God’s power that saves any of us for we cannot save ourselves. Once Adam and Eve made the choice to step out of God’s lifestream, we were all dead. We were dead at birth. But God made us alive when we were yet dead. There is no question that that is what the Bible teaches. Where a part ways with John Calvin is his teaching that this was then forced upon us by an irresistible grace.
It’s not a horrible way to think about God’s plan for his unchosen ones. The ones that he created with his own word and yet left in their misery and squalor to suffer eternal destruction at his hands for not obeying his impossible to keep laws.
Of course not. If God is all knowing then he knew from the very beginning who would accept it and who wouldn’t. But that fact did not stop him from giving his grace to all. I think Judas is a good example. Jesus knew from the beginning that he was a devil but he did not treat him any differently than any of the others. He received the same call the same grace the same teachings. I am sure that that is the way God deals for Humanity.
God is love. Many people like to say he is justice also, but that is trying to separate something that is inseparable. There is no justice without love and there is no love without justice. they are part and parcel of each other.
1 John 2:2
1 Timothy 2:4
This is simply rationalizing scripture.
But to his creation it does.
Are you suggesting that God was surprised at how bad things had gotten? In fact, so surprised that he had to repent for creating them? That doesn’t sound all-knowing to me.Huh? The Spirit hardened the proud, and softened the humble?Do you know what original sin is? everyone is born dead spiritually. None seek God, not even one, we have all gone astray from birth. the fall was so radical that scripture says God repented and was sorry for creating man. And there was only one man who was born sinless.
As far as God goes, there is no man born seeking God, all are arrogant, proud God haters.
If there were no humble people then who is James talking about in chapter 4 verse 6?
I have no power to give anyone.
Unless they didn’t want to. Salvation is light. It is coming into the light and becoming children of light. But some people love darkness more than light and this is what the verdict is based on. They do not want to give up their evil deeds. And God honors their desires and gives them over to their darkness.
It is a gift and the gift is offered. Something that we must take is not considered a gift.
