laughable really, really that making God look stupid, but more than likely doing what a lot of people do m, putting God inside a box.
The only thing I have some element of concern over is whether the person still has to to choose after they've been enabled.
Which would then fall into empowering grace, if once they've been enabled they then don't have to choose, does it fall into irresistible grace, I get confused over that idea it stuck in my head long ago.
theres a consistency about certain things between man and god from the beginning to the end based upon how mankind is designed by God to function and live
“And the
LORD God commanded the man, saying,
Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: ( freedom )
but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: ( choice )
for in the day that thou eatest thereof
thou shalt surely die.”( consequence )
Genesis 2:16-17 KJV
the first man ever born after they sinned and came to know good and evil
“Then the Lord said to Cain, “Why are you angry? Why is your face downcast?
If you do what is right, will you not be accepted?
But if you do not do what is right,
sin is crouching at your door; it desires to have you, but
you must rule over it.””
Genesis 4:6-7 NIV
Now we see man is in a conflict caught between good and evil. But still there’s an option and results of each choice and action.
Then hundreds of years after when the law eventually came to the newly formed children of Israel still they are in the same old boat of choice and consequence
“
See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil; in that I command thee this day to love the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments, that thou mayest live and multiply: and the LORD thy God shall bless thee in the land whither thou goest to possess it.
But if thine heart turn away, so that thou wilt not hear, but shalt be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them;
I denounce unto you this day, that ye shall surely perish, and that ye shall not prolong your days upon the land, whither thou passest over Jordan to go to possess it.
I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that
I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:”
Deuteronomy 30:15-19
then long after we still see the same principle of the same option
“Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter:
Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.
For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.”
Ecclesiastes 12:13-14 KJV
Throughout the ot prophets he calls israel to repentance and warns what will happen if they don’t repent of serving other gods . and Still when Jesus came same principles
“Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice, and shall come forth;
they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life;
and
they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation.”
John 5:28-29 KJV
Still after Jesus ascended to heaven same thing cain was told in different words ….”
If you do what is right, will you not be accepted? “
“Then Peter opened his mouth, and said,
Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons: but in every nation he that feareth him, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him.”
Acts 10:34-35 KJV
Paul’s epistles still hold the same
“For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that
every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or evil . Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men; but we are made manifest unto God; and I trust also are made manifest in your consciences.”
2 Corinthians 5:10-11 KJV
“
God “will repay each person according to what they have done.”
To
those who by persistence in doing good seek glory, honor and immortality,
he will give eternal life.
But
for those who are self-seeking and who reject the truth and follow evil, there will be wrath and anger……. For
God does not show favoritism.”
Romans 2:6-8, 11 NIV
All the way to Christs final statements in the Bible
“And, behold, I come quickly; and
my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.”
Revelation 22:12-13
My question is did God make cain unable To do good and be accepted ? Or did cain choose the evil when he was faced with his choice ?
did god create us wrong that we can’t do what he commands us to do ? Or do we corrupt our own selves by choosing the evil set before us along with life ?
“I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:”
Deuteronomy 30:19 KJV
“And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to
every creature. He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; ( life and blessing )
but
he that believeth not shall be damned.”( death and cursing )
Mark 16:15-16
It seems god has always made us able but we continually rebel against him because of the evil we partake of in the world . It’s confusing when we begin with the proposition we’re incapable that sort of puts the owness for our failures on our creator I believe Adam , cain , and so on we’re all capable but also corrupt by the evil they partook of continually in the world
