King James, the greatest translation in the history of man uses the word, "evil". I'll stick with evil.
That is the system we live in, Reward and Punishment.
Regards Tony
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King James, the greatest translation in the history of man uses the word, "evil". I'll stick with evil.
Fears brain-swelling Nipah virus with up to 75% death rate 'may become next pandemic'Surely he will save you
Matthew Dresch
11 hrs ago
Scientists are worried about the brain-swelling Nipah disease, which has a death rate of up to 75%, potentially becoming the next 'big' virus.
The fruit bat-borne disease has sparked fears among experts as it is high rate of mutation and is extremely deadly.
Vomiting, seizures and brain swelling are some of the symptoms of the virus, which first jumped from pigs to farmers in Malaysia in 1999.
The mortality rate of Nipah ranges between 40 to 75%, far higher than the 1% rate for coronavirus, according to the World Health Organisation.
The body named the disease as one of 16 priority pathogens that need to be researched due to their potential to spark an epidemic, The Sun reports.
A total of 260 viruses have been epidemic potential, experts found.
Nipah is particularly worrying as it has high rate of mutation and an incubation period of up to 45 days, meaning a person could spread it for more than a month before falling sick.
Scientists are worried that the next pandemic could be far worse than the coronavirus crisis.
Fears brain-swelling Nipah virus with up to 75% death rate 'may become next pandemic'
from the fowler’s snare
and from the deadly pestilence.
He will cover you with his feathers,
and under his wings you will find refuge;
his faithfulness will be your shield and rampart.
You will not fear the terror of night,
nor the arrow that flies by day,
nor the pestilence that stalks in the darkness,
nor the plague that destroys at midday.
Peaceful Sabbath.
IF God "brought the corona virus" to us, then God also brought us everything that we love most in the world. Would you trade away the latter to rid yourself of the former? Would you trade away your life just to avoid death?
Then stop complaining.
COVID spreading around the entire world doesn't compute in my mind as being a result of man rebelling against God. The two just seem mutually exclusively.The facts are is that we rebel against God, which in turn is rebelling against the entire system of creation we are part of.
Why would we think we can show disobedience against a perfect balanced system and not think there will be consequences?
Regards Tony
I don't get it. I read a lot of COVID long haulers stories of ongoing suffering and misery on several forums (people whose symptoms mild and severe linger months possibly years after finally testing negative). Many to most ask for prayers to get over it and a few who praise God when they do--only to fall ill against weeks or months later in many cases.
What I don't get is the Bible says this:
I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things. Isaiah 45:7
Instead of praising God we should be holding Him responsible for all the misery and death Coronavirus is doing to us. He tells us in no uncertain words He's the one who created this monstrous evil we have labeled Coronavirus.
Now before you throw "Bad translation" at me you should know that this is the King James, widely regarded as the most perfect translation ever done. Many Christians regard it as the authoritative word of God straight from God's mouth.
So God brings something as evil as Coronavirus on us and people are praising Him for it. Sort of like when someone kicks you, you say, "I like that. Do it again."
I just don't get the logic--or illogic of it, that's a better word.
COVID spreading around the entire world doesn't compute in my mind as being a result of man rebelling against God. The two just seem mutually exclusively.
Looks like God is just getting started. Buckle up, kiddies. It's going to be a bumpy ride.
COVID spreading around the entire world doesn't compute in my mind as being a result of man rebelling against God. The two just seem mutually exclusively.
I does in my mind.
The fact that it DOES include the entire world is one of the indicators.
Think of the MERS and the Zika and the original sars covid viruses that didn't make it around the world.
On another thread here in 2019, I was saying something big had to begin, had to become evident in the "full veiw of mankind" in specifically January 2020.
Because I see this as the time for it to happen.
The heptads from Daniel 9 are playing out again in modern times, like they did from 457 BC.
The timing of 7 weeks and 62 weeks are too peculiar for them to occur by random chance.
Sunset 5:54PM.
Well, I think when people mean god, they mean the source that started things in motion and that "source" keeps us going and alive. It doesn't create illnesses. The body is conditioned to age, get sick, and die. If we have a medical condition that doesn't have symptoms or the symptoms aren't and will not deter our lives then medical professionals wouldn't think of it as an issue-just as a dormant tumor, for example. It's just what the body does.
If they believe god is an entity like Casper that like the Olympian gods came outside in the universe and shaped the moon and stars and earth, then I'm at a loss as you are.
Whether in the form of evil or calamity when we look at Scripture in context we can see that 'evil ' is Not always synonymous with wrong doing.King James, the greatest translation in the history of man uses the word, "evil". I'll stick with evil.
Think about this:You think we're going into the 7-year tribulation?
You think we're going into the 7-year tribulation?
Let's see how serious Covid-19 proved to be:Looks like God is just getting started. Buckle up, kiddies. It's going to be a bumpy ride.
I don't get it. I read a lot of COVID long haulers stories of ongoing suffering and misery on several forums (people whose symptoms mild and severe linger months possibly years after finally testing negative). Many to most ask for prayers to get over it and a few who praise God when they do--only to fall ill against weeks or months later in many cases.
What I don't get is the Bible says this:
I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things. Isaiah 45:7
Instead of praising God we should be holding Him responsible for all the misery and death Coronavirus is doing to us. He tells us in no uncertain words He's the one who created this monstrous evil we have labeled Coronavirus.
Now before you throw "Bad translation" at me you should know that this is the King James, widely regarded as the most perfect translation ever done. Many Christians regard it as the authoritative word of God straight from God's mouth.
So God brings something as evil as Coronavirus on us and people are praising Him for it. Sort of like when someone kicks you, you say, "I like that. Do it again."
I just don't get the logic--or illogic of it, that's a better word.
"They were looking intently up into the sky as he was going, when suddenly two men dressed in white stood beside them. “Men of Galilee,” they said, “why do you stand here looking into the sky? This same Jesus, who has been taken from you into heaven, will come back in the same way you have seen him go into heaven.”
Is this Being a thinking person or just a force that keeps the universe in order. I don't know. COVID just seems so wicked and the Bible says God is the author of evil so I just put 2 and 2 together.
I believe life is a test, like Job's. The Lord wants us to decide what we will do in various circumstances. There must be evil in the world to do this. Job said "shall we accept good from God and not trouble?" (Job 2:10)
In the next life God will make everything right. In this life we need to decide who we want to become.
By the time Isaiah is written, Yahweh has become the ONLY god. Earlier [he] was merely said to be pre-eminent (eg "no other gods before me").I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things. Isaiah 45:7