Sorry to have dallied, it is morning here now. Good morning in Jesus, Yeshua.
Our Father does not punish people,. All the evil of man since Jesus first came to us has been at the hands of man, while our Father allows it. Even so-called ddnatural disassters can be scientifically attributed to man but that is a very invo.ved conversastion which I do not wish to engage in.
Whan our Father chastizes a man or mankind, it can only be because of His love for us. I cannot blame Him that I have passed through a mountain of sorrows and pain in my life. Had people watched out for their neighbors people would not hungaser or be born with things like rickets and so many other avoicable so-called punishments.
When we believe God loves us, and after His giving us His Son to suffer and die for us, who cannot, we know anything in this age of darkness will pass away in the fire next time only to rebirth in God's glorious kingdom, and His glory.
I think love has to be a consistent thing. Don't you? Like take a human example. A guy who beats his wife. Yet, he tells her when he's over his rage that he loves her, and he won't do it again. And he even maybe gives her a gift to make up for breaking her face.
Is that love?
No, that's abuse! She should leave him, prosecute , file for divorce, and leave the state while he's incarcerated, and change her name so he doesn't come looking for her when he gets out.
Now, lets look at God in the same light of, I love you. God loves us. While all things that happen in this world happen while God watches. The good and the bad.
And some think the disasters that happen are God making things so bad that it will cause people to turn to him. But God knows everything there is to know, even that there will be people who live and die as unbelievers. So why would God cause, as some think, September 11th? Or this Corona virus? When being that he knows everything there is to know, is alpha and omega, beginning and the end, he also knows that there are people who will never turn to him.
And another thing. Why would they turn to him after that? Is it out of love? Or would it be out of fear? Turn to God so he doesn't let another September 11th happen again? Meaning, he let it happen so that people would convert to faith in him?
Is that conversion out of love? Or due to terrorism from a spiritual manipulative place?
For God to be Go as we're told he is, all love, God has to be better than the worst human.