Random Questions; Bible-based answers
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Well, you mentioned free will, so let me use the tulipist-MFWer debate as an example.
Why did God not clearly say through Jesus and Paul that:
John 10:27-29 – being “unsnatchable” does not disallow a person from choosing to jump out of the “Father’s hand”. Also, in JN 6:37 “never drive away” does not mean a person cannot go away, and in JN 6:39 “I shall lose none” may refer to those who persevere or do not stray, who stand firm, who endure, who hold firmly, etc.
Rom. 8:38-39 – “anything else” may refer to powers other than one’s own will.
1Cor 1:8, 10:12 & 15:58 - These verses indicate that standing firm involves a believer cooperating with the way Jesus provides.
2Cor 1:20-24 - This indicates that the way God provides for standing firm is for believers to persevere in cooperating with the HS.
Eph. 1:11-14 – What is “predestined” is God’s plan to choose or elect anyone who desires to be “in him” or to satisfy GRFS. Thus, being “marked in him with a seal” does not abrogate moral free will (cf. 2Pet. 1:10f).
1 John 2:19 – when jibed with verse 24 must mean that those who repudiate their Faith do not eternally “belong”.
Psalm 135:6 – in light of “volitional verses” (such as Deut. 30:19 & Matt. 23:37) means that God “pleases” to permit limited free will.
Pro. 21:1 – in order not to make God responsible for the sins cited in the rest of the chapter must mean that the “king’s heart” or will is choosing to cooperate with the Lord’s “hand” or directions.
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This post is also applicable to those who blithely claim they let God's word speak without opining about it.
We all interpret what the Bible says, and the context of any single verse is every other verse in Scripture,
because Truth is One. Hence the need to learn the entire revelation, connecting every dot ideally,
which is a life-long endeavor--although a child of about eight can learn the essential Gospel of salvation.
What is sad to me, is whatever GOD say democrats do the opposite.
They go against GOD'S word, our constitution and our laws.
Putting drag queens in our schools to get those little minds, I sure would not want to be them.
Because of their actions I refer to them as the party of demons.
I use the "party" meaning the leaders, because I don't what people to think those who vote for them are demon like. They are more like zombies.
They may be just following blindly what other are telling them.
No difference between following men on a so called news channel where all of the information is twisted or someone following men and not JESUS and HIS word alone.
Aah, but the loving God created hell, so consider this explanation:
God could not force people to return His love without abrogating their humanity. If God were to zap ungodly souls, it would be tantamount to forcing conversions at gunpoint, which would not be free and genuine. If God were to prevent people from behaving hatefully, then He would need to prevent them from thinking evilly, which would make human souls programmed automatons.
MFW only exists when there is the possibility of choosing between two qualitatively opposite moral options that we call good and evil. These options are opposites because of essentially different consequences for choosing them. Choosing good results in blessing, life and heaven; and choosing evil results in cursing, death and hell (Deut. 30:19). This is why hell as well as heaven exists. It is the just consequence for choosing evil rather than God. The Spirit of God is good: love, peace and joy (Gal. 5:22-23). Therefore, whoever rejects the Lord is spiritually separated from Him (Isa. 59:2) and thereby chooses the evil or satanic spirit of hatred, strife and misery and reaps the just consequence called “hell” in the afterlife (Gal. 6:7-9, Heb. 9:27-28).
God created theoretical evil or the possibility of rejecting Him as an option that actualizes MFW/free human personality. As such it is necessary and even good (Gen. 1:31). Of course, it was wrong for Satan (1John 3:8) and humanity (Rom. 5:12) to make evil actual by choosing to Sin or reject Faith in God’s Lordship. The first people to choose the evil option were named Adam and Eve (Gen. 3:6). Sin: ignoring God/God’s Word.
God loves a cheerful giver (2Cor. 9:7), which means He desires people to cooperate with Him happily because of love and gratitude for His grace rather than to cower before Him because of fear of hell. Love must be evoked; it cannot be coerced. And again, when souls sin or do NOT choose to love God freely, it is perfectly just (loving and logical) for them to reap the appropriate consequence (Gal. 6:7-9) or hell.
Such evil people punish/torture themselves by experiencing delayed karma, just as those who experience appropriate justice during this earthly existence also punish themselves or reap what they have sown and send themselves to jail. This view makes souls responsible for breaking the rules rather than blaming evil on the judges (or Judge) who enforce the rules. The purpose of earthly punishment is to promote repentance, but the reason for retribution in hell is to attain justice. It is difficult to imagine, but somehow even someone as evil as Hitler will receive perfect justice, perhaps experiencing the agony of the millions of deaths he caused in accordance with the principal of “eye for eye” (MT 5:38), after which their souls are destroyed forever (per John 17:12, Rom. 9:22, Gal. 6:8, Phil. 3:19, 2Thes. 1:9, 2Pet. 3:7 & Rev. 20:13-14).
Thus, hell is an expression of God's love for justice.
Yes, God does not desire for anyone to reject His salvation to heaven and thus deserve to experience His justice in hell.
This desire expresses His love. God does not "have" to obey anything, although He promises never to stop loving humanity.
