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4:37 is not what is said in Isaiah 45:7
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I believe at the end of time whether a person is in the new heaven/new earth or the lake of fire. There is no more free will. Because our free will has already been exercised in our choices to follow God or not. So by the time your with God or in the lake of fire, your free will choice has already been expended, as you've already reached your destination
Analogy: if theres 2 doors, and you pick the left one. Once your in there you no longer have the choice anymore. As its already expended.
At the beginning of time you have the choice to choose your destination.At the end of time you have reached the destination.
What dumb question, that woman is from the same person who often asked within her conscience that , what if Satan is the real good guy that's why these people put up such wild questions
So one question that I have struggled to answer for myself and others…if God has the ability to have us be sinless in heaven and still have free will, why didn't He create us like that to begin with? Meaning, why weren't Adam and Eve created that way? Since heaven will be perfection (no more tears, pain, etc…) why not create us that way to begin with? The answer is always right there in my brain, I can just never articulate it. Thoughts?
Dude that boat analogy was maybe the best I’ve heard
I'm not understanding why his first response to her was "Was that kid a demon?!" Why did he say that and why was it comical to him. So weird
My dear
God created the mankind, giving them free will and the freedom to choose between one decission or the opposite, between good and evil.
There is up because there is down, there is left because there is right, there is good because there is bad.
God also said..
"Foolish and unlearned questions avoid for they do gender strife."
We don't know all the answers, God is Almighty!
Satan the angel never fell from heaven no angel ever fell from heaven nor is Lucifer satan Lucifer is a city in Babylon a people ……. When it’s saying satan fell from heaven it’s saying the spirit of satan … also the Bible clearly says God creates good and evil. Satan can only do what God tells him to do just like any other angel.
The bible says God created everything.
Can someone please explain to me how the second answer is an answer at all? I accept Christ as my savior, but what Frank said doesn't answer anything. It dismisses the question with a hand waive. He answers by saying you don't blame a parent for the sins of their children. You ABSOLUTELY do if the parent had knowledge of what the child would do. If I were God, and I had a son and I KNOW (remember, I am omniscient) my son will kill, given access to a gun, and I leave a gun unattended in our home, I am complicit. If God is omniscient, he KNOWS, and would thereby be partly culpable.
Now, I will say this, he said in his first answer that choice requires a "distance". Why does choice require a distance? I agree with this but if we assume God is all powerful in the sense that he has no limits then why does it? WHY does distance come into play for there to be a choice? Either God has a limit, or he does not. If God is all powerful in a limitless sense, Choice only requires distance since God demands it.
I have my own answers for these questions, but I know they are unorthodox, how would an orthodox view allow this scenario? I guess the simple version of this idea is that, how is God not responsible for evil, if he created all the means for it to exist. He has no limits (in traditional thinking), knows what will happen, has no needs (he is self-sufficient, existing in a state of love) and yet, he does it anyway. In what way can it be claimed he ISN'T responsible. If our free will CAME from him, then he CAUSED us to be.
Are you even listening to yourself Frank? What makes you think you’re an expert? I really wish you people would listen to your own bs. The second question is totally on point. And the answer is pure bullshit.
Salvation is transformation. 'So that He may have mercy on ALL.' He WILL have us – transformation is a more or less painful acquiescence to the casting of all in us that is Not God – that we allowed in our abject ignorance. And good riddance
Free will baby it is absolute. You have a choice. Genesis 6:5 states God regretted making man because he was evil all the time. So that is absolute free will
The tradition I was taught is that Lucifer rebelled when the angels were shown that and aspect of God, that they'd have to worship, was born of humans. This caused Lucifer to renounce God, in turn God renounced Lucifer and cast him and his other rebellious angels, from heaven. Once cast from heaven Lucifer wasted no time convincing the first woman that humans could be as God if they disobeyed God's commandments.
The first christians were Catholic. Google John Paul II was the antichrist and Benedict XVI was the false prophet!! It's suppressed Catholic teaching that the antichrist would be a pope.
God bless and pray for all virtues – humility, charity, detachment, purity, wisdom, contrition, mortification, perseverance, conversion of sinñers, a desire to do the will of God, a desire to go to heaven, a desire for the Holy Spirit, a love for Mary the Mother of God, and perseverance in the faith with a place in heaven in the next life.❤
For me Blake hits on something that's hard for me too, in that YES there is a savior, and YES God also created the potential for sin, but God also knew that the Fall would happen, he knew it all, so why do it?
Why are we in this mess to begin with?
God new the Fall would happen yes or no?
There are two very different paths from that starting point. If he knew, then we are here knowing that most of us would fall short of recognizing the savior and be punished for that. The alternative is that he didn't know, and he wishes we'd see the savior. Which would mean that God is linear and doesn't see the whole picture, which is impossible.
It's now a scientific fact , every single thought we have , every action is decided upon subconsciously like quarter to half second prior which is massive. They've done these experiments for 20 years. The reason you don't hear much about this , it would literally mean nobody is responsible for any action. This science is only argument banned from the courtroom
As a father, it seems that humans are inherently selfish and mean. I'm raising my son to be a man of principle, but it's a struggle when his natural instincts seem sinful and selfish. If there is a God, it probably thinks it hilarious that we would think that he would care about us. He is probably entertained by our suffering, wars, and torture we inflict on ourselves. Humans are the only known species in the universe to destroy their own environment, not just for ourselves but all other living creatures around us. Are we not a plague?
These questions are what is categorized as unreasonable, ignorant, and irrational queries.
I'm not an evangelist neither am I a pastor. I am a theologian and an apologist.
That said, I would simply suggest to these youngsters they ought to be humble God seekers instead of lazy, slothful people who argue and demand fast and easy answers.
Consider this historical truth:
Jesus Christ, the incarnate God who came to this planet earth so that people might know God. How was He received? They rejected Him, tortured Him and murdered Him!
To this day, this instant, they are still mocking Him, rejecting Him, hating Him!
These people are on their way to perdition!