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Results from: Answered Bible Questions, Answers, Unanswered Bible Questions, Notes Author: GoatFeathers Ordered by Date |
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1 | I'm not sure this is applicable | Rom 9:20 | GoatFeathers | 57027 | ||
You can give God an ultimatum until you are blue in the face. The real question is will God respond. From what I have seen, God will respond, but only if we are willing to deal with every card in the deck. God doesn't want half measures. What's the point of you quitting smoking if the rest of your life is still a wreck? If you are willing to turn over your whole life, then I think God is willing to listen to ultimatums. I'm not just pulling this out of the blue. In Gen 28, Jacob has left his house and recieves a vision from the Lord. Then he makes a vow (but it reads a lot like an ultimatum) "If God will be with me and will keep me in this way that I go and will give me food to eat and clothing to wear, So that I may come again to my father's house in peace, then the Lord shall be my God" This isn't like the drunk's prayer of "God, get me out of this situation and I'll never drink again." This is a true, "God if you will take care of me, I will worship you and no one else." That is the kind of deal that God can accept. |
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2 | Is God selfish? | Rom 9:20 | GoatFeathers | 53836 | ||
CURIOUS asked Would we not be better off if we wouldn't even created at all? This question has been ask a lot of different times, by different people, in different ways. "If God is good, why is there evil in the world?" "If God is good why do people suffer?" and so on. First, let me say that Cyclist was dead on in his answer. For us to even have the audacity to ask God this question is an affront to his very nature. But, that he lets us ask it all the same shows his love for us even more. Let me offer these verses to help answer the question: 2 Corinthians 1:3 Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, 4 who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves have received from God. 5 For just as the sufferings of Christ flow over into our lives, so also through Christ our comfort overflows. 6 If we are distressed, it is for your comfort and salvation; if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which produces in you patient endurance of the same sufferings we suffer. 7 And our hope for you is firm, because we know that just as you share in our sufferings, so also you share in our comfort. 8 We do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, about the hardships we suffered in the province of Asia. We were under great pressure, far beyond our ability to endure, so that we despaired even of life. 9 Indeed, in our hearts we felt the sentence of death. But this happened that we might not rely on ourselves but on God, who raises the dead. 10 He has delivered us from such a deadly peril, and he will deliver us. On him we have set our hope that he will continue to deliver us, 11 as you help us by your prayers. Then many will give thanks on our behalf for the gracious favor granted us in answer to the prayers of many. And Romans 8:15 For you did not receive a spirit that makes you a slave again to fear, but you received the Spirit of sonship. And by him we cry, "Abba, Father." 16 The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God's children. 17 Now if we are children, then we are heirs--heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ, if indeed we share in his sufferings in order that we may also share in his glory. 18 I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us. 19 The creation waits in eager expectation for the sons of God to be revealed. 20 For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope 21 that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the glorious freedom of the children of God. 22 We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time. 23 Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies. 24 For in this hope we were saved. But hope that is seen is no hope at all. Who hopes for what he already has? 25 But if we hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently. 26 In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groans that words cannot express. 27 And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints in accordance with God's will. 28 And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose. 29 For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the likeness of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers. 30 And those he predestined, he also called; those he called, he also justified; those he justified, he also glorified. I know that this is a bit long, but frankly when I start reading Paul I don't know where to stop. ;) But seriously, look at what he is saying. We undergo hardship that we may know the comfort of God. How would we know God's comfort except that we first know what hardship was? How can we comfort others except that God first comfort us? But also we complain of our suffering, for that is all we have known. That is why we must renew our minds so that we may know the will of God. To understand that suffering is not all there is, but that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us. But we don't have that glory now so that we may have hope. Hope that is seen is no hope at all. Who hopes for what he already has? Look at what our suffering God is using to build into us, comfort, glory, and hope! Now we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him. What more to this can we say? To live is Christ and to die is gain! |
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3 | Are God, Jesus, and Holy Spirit one? | 1 Thess 5:23 | GoatFeathers | 53827 | ||
You are correct in that you will not find anywhere in the Bible that mentions the Trinity by name. However, just because it's not in the Bible doesn't mean that it's wrong. This thinking was developed by godly men who read the Bible and prayerfully came to this conclusion. God allows us to work out a lot of things for ourselves while still under his guidance. For example, no where in the Bible will you find a list of the books that should be included in the Bible. This was worked out by a group of men who prayed and fasted to seek out the will of God in this manner. Also, the idea that God is a trinity is not that hard to understand when you realize that every person is also a trinity. 1 Thessalonians 5:23 says "Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you entirely; and may your spirit and soul and body be preserved complete, without blame at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ." See, we have a spirit, a soul, and a body. Now we know that we were made in the image of God. While we could do a whole book on what it means to be made in the image of God (and it has been done) if we take a short look at it, we can see that each part in our earthly trinity lines up with part of God's holy trinity. Our spirit to God's Holy Spirit (John 4:24 "God is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.") our soul to God the Father (Romans 12:2 "And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect.") and our body to Jesus the Son (Romans 12:5 "so we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another.") Finally, let me just say "don't take my word for it". Read your Bible (which it sounds like you have already done), pray, ask for the counsil of other christians that you trust, and don't freak out about it. God loves you, and he would not have you stay ignorant in this matter. God will show his truth to you if you really seek him. |
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