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1 | Why does God love the world (us)? | Genesis | mbooker | 59408 | ||
Hi Brother John OK, I think I see where you are coming from but let me personalize it. 1. God predestined the Fall 2. If I sin/fall, God has predestined for me to sin/fall 3. While I sin for evil reasons, God however predestined me to sin for His end purpose Maybe I’m simplifying it, but what I seek to do is get understand of biblical principles then apply them to myself. And you may be right. Maybe we won’t fully understanding it this side of heaven but 1 Cor 2:15-16 caught my attention one day and propels me to search out and seek knowledge and understanding of my Father’s heart. “But the spiritual man tries all things [he examines, investigates, inquires into, questions, and discerns all things], yet is himself to be put on trial and judged by no one [he can read the meaning of everything, but no one can properly discern or appraise or get an insight into him]. For who has known or understood the mind (the counsels and purposes) of the Lord so as to guide and instruct Him and give Him knowledge? But we have the mind of Christ (the Messiah) and do hold the thoughts (feelings and purposes) of His heart” Abba Father bless… Meredith |
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2 | Why does God love the world (us)? | Genesis | Hank | 59414 | ||
Hello, Meredith. Being, as I am, a simple man with an honest but unsophisticated approach to semantics, it often occurs to me that more frequently perhaps than we realize, some of our problems with misunderstanding one another, especially in the areas of complex concepts such as predestination, lie in the usage of words such as this without having a clear, firm grasp of their exact meaning. Now this is not to accuse you of this practice -- not in the least -- but rather to ask you, and others who would care to, to define with as much precision as you can muster what you mean when you use the word predestination and, perhaps, its close cousin, the word election. And of course I would add the sine qua non that these definitions, to be valid, ought indeed to be in harmony with the contexts in which Scripture uses these words. --Hank | ||||||
3 | Why does God love the world (us)? | Genesis | mbooker | 59418 | ||
Hi Hank :) To be honest, I am not clear on all the ins and outs of predestination and election. In this post, I was expressing to John what I understood him to be saying. I was not saying I agreed with what I stated in the post, only that that was what I understood him to be saying. btw, I'm simple and unsophistcated too :). I'm just seeking to rightly understand scripture in my own simply way then live out scripture in my life so that I can be a living espistle. Abba Father bless you and keep you... Meredith |
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