The Scriptures reveal that there are situations in which God chooses not to foreknow the outcome. Just before the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, he declared: I am quite determined to go down that I may see whether they act altogether according to the outcry over it that has come to me, and...
The argument that Gods not foreknowing all future events and circumstances in full detail would evidence imperfection on his part is, in reality, an arbitrary view of perfection. Perfection, correctly defined, does not demand such an absolute, all-embracing extension, inasmuch as the perfection...
Yes. God purposed that Adam and Eve and their children make the whole earth a paradise. He did not intend that humans grow old and die; nor did he want mankind to harm the environment. However, because of the poor choices made by our first parents, we have inherited sin and death. (Genesis...
God has given us the gift of free will, so we can make our own choices about how we will live. He wants us to make the right choices, and his Word, the Bible, tells us how we can do that. Consider the words of Moses, as found in Deuteronomy chapter 30.
Is it difficult to know what God requires...
Gen. 2:16, 17: God also laid this command upon the man: From every tree of the garden you may eat to satisfaction. But as for the tree of the knowledge of good and bad you must not eat from it, for in the day you eat from it you will positively die. (It was not Gods original purpose for man...
We have brought about most of the problems on the earth.
This is not what Yahweh intended, or purposes for the future.
Deuteronomy 32:4-5
4 The Rock, perfect is his activity,
For all his ways are justice.
A God of faithfulness, with whom there is no injustice;
Righteous and upright is he.
5...
Hi shinydarkrai94,
The word hell is found in many Bible translations. In the same verses other translations read the grave, the world of the dead, and so forth. Other Bibles simply transliterate the original-language words that are sometimes rendered hell; that is, they express them...
Gen. 1:26: God went on to say: Let us make man in our image, according to our likeness, and let them have in subjection the fish of the sea and the flying creatures of the heavens and the domestic animals and all the earth and every moving animal that is moving upon the earth. (So, Gods...
Yes, Psalm 37:29 "The upright will have the earth for their heritage, and will go on living there for ever".
This verse makes it clear that God's basic purpose regarding the earth and mankind has not changed.
In time God sent his Son to die on behalf of mankind so that those who would put faith...
It was not Gods original purpose for man someday to die. He warned Adam that he would die if he ate from the tree of Knowledge. Genesis 3:19 tells us that he returned to the dust that he was made from.
Some may feel that these words were not fulfilled because all of Jesus disciples who were present when he said those words died before the establishment of Gods Kingdom in the heavens. The Interpreters Bible even says of this verse: The prediction was not fulfilled, and later Christians...
The New Encyclopædia Britannica says: Neither the word Trinity, nor the explicit doctrine as such, appears in the New Testament, nor did Jesus and his followers intend to contradict the Shema in the Old Testament: Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord (Deut. 6:4). . . . The doctrine...
The fame and dread of the Nephilim, it appears, gave rise to many mythologies of heathen people who, after the confusion of languages at Babel, were scattered throughout the earth. Though the historical forms of the Genesis account were greatly distorted and embellished, there was a remarkable...
Definition: In the Bible, soul is translated from the Hebrew ne′phesh and the Greek psy·khe′. Bible usage shows the soul to be a person or an animal or the life that a person or an animal enjoys. To many persons, however, soul means the immaterial or spirit part of a human being...
According to Roman Catholic teaching, saints are those who died and are now with Christ in heaven and who have been given recognition by the Church for outstanding holiness and virtue. The Tridentine profession of faith states that the saints are to be invoked as intercessors with God and that...