What is there NOT to learn is the real question. God does not mind you knowing how he does things or how he makes things or how he runs things. Now we see as through a darkened glass but then we will know fully. In an instant? Maybe. I tend to think othewise.
God is truth, and there are so...
God's weapon is his mouth! His words can create or destroy.
He sharpens his sword against hard hearts and he plunges his sword into soft hearts to cut out whatever worldy cancer he finds there.
Even though God is the prince of peace, his words are received either as a blow or as a cure. And...
If harsh seasons and limited resources, disease, droughts and famines could keep you out of heaven, Jesus would have said so. Its the drought in the heart that amplifies the thirst. 'If anyone is thirsty let him come to me'. Its the diseased in heart that he came to save 'I did not come for the...
Is there anywhere on this planet that the wind does not blow? There isnt. Jesus said the wind blows wherever it will, you dont know where it comes from or where it is going, so it is with everyone that is born again. The wind can reach every culture every nation every tongue.
If an infant...
Boring? Not at all! Imagine the greatest feeling of joy you can ever have on earth, then imagine it amplified a million times......imagine heaven. Not a single boring moment. God is so stupendously glorious that our mouths will hang open for at least the first few eons trying to absorb all that...
Now see if you are not managing to like God now where do you imagine he would be compelled to put you when this world is destroyed? On his lap, so that you can be tortured by his personhood everyday?:shrug:
What is wrong here is your view of God. All men persue happiness. God knows this...
It should be a crime to want to be miserable for all eternity. But somehow God looks unjust to give people what they want. And they dont want him.
God is not going to drag anybody by the hair into heaven.
This world is his and everything in it. It is going to be destroyed. When its gone so...
Perhaps we ought to say a good parent would be God, instead of saying God ought to be what I consider to be a good parent?
Did you forget the verse that says 'while we were still his enemies God died for us'?
Its that hard to believe in Jesus? A man who laid down his life for you?
And...
Jesus fullfilled the righteous requirement of the law. He loved his father with every fibre of his being. That is the greatest commandment and all other laws hanged on that one. Hence he never needed to make a sacrifice. He was without sin and there was no deceit in his mouth. He never needed to...
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I had to smile when I read this.:D I would certainly not convince someone like Paul that this 'religion pill' was just working cause he thought it was working. As Paul said he and the apostels had become the scum of the earth. If he thought religion is like the placebo effect he...
If God did not banished them out of the garden they would have eaten of the tree of life after eating of the tree of knowledge of good and evil and would have been immortalized in a fallen state. To banish them was better than to let them (mankind) be forever ruined.
God bless
Heneni
Yes God certainly did choose Israel to make a name for himself or if you will to 'reveal His glory'. He says so here too.....
1 Chronicles 17:21 And who is like your people Israel--the one nation on earth whose God went out to redeem a people for himself, and TO MAKE A NAME FOR YOURSELF...
I appologise if somebody has already said this, forgive me i didnt feel up to reading through 151 pages of stuff.:p
If I wanted to prove who i was god, there would be no point in me going around saying 'im god'. I would have no authority to do such a thing. And only the nut jobs would believe...
God does whatever he pleases and is pleased with whatever he does. God does not have a moral code. Moral codes are lists of stuff that is right and wrong, good and bad, what to do what not to do. Its similar to a law...God does not need a law...laws are made because there are LAWLESS folk...
Now now...before we stone god for putting a loaded gun in the garden lets think about this.
God made adam and eve..would probably have been happy with just the two of them, and probably was...then satan interferred and now god is happy to have MILLIONS of sons and daughters....good plan...
Nobody minus god.
Mankinds moral code is fluid. It changes with the times and the seasons. A few years ago it would have been immoral to walk around with a bikini. And in some cultures it still is (Saudi Muslims). So which society is right? Yes mankinds moral code can not be trusted. Cause...