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1 | No Joyce Meyer?????????????????? | Acts 17:11 | Reformer Joe | 72071 | ||
You wrote: "As the world of science teaches, for every action there is an equal but opposite reaction. Though this is in referance to the natural world, the same holds true for the spiritual realm. For sin there is atonement. For Heaven (an eternity with God) there is Hell (eternity with out God). For faith we have fear." Not one of these is an example of the scientific principle that you mention. Hell is not a necessary reaction to heaven. Atonement is not a necessary reaction to sin (just ask those in hell whose sins are not atoned for). And fear is not a necessary reaction to faith. You also wrote: "Faith activates God, however fear activates the devil." The creation "activates" the Creator? And all along I though He was in charge! The Bible tells us that you are wrong about us "activating" God: 'Why should the nations say, "Where, now, is their God?" But our God is in the heavens; He does whatever He pleases.' --Psalm 115:2-3 Job himself understood this as well, while God is giving him a little four-chapter lesson on Who is in charge (Job 38-41): "Behold, I am insignificant; what can I reply to You? I lay my hand on my mouth."--Job 40:4 Wouldn't it be nice if we often laid our hands on our own mouths? We activate God?!? I fear Him far to much to ever think such an insolent thing. You also wrote: "The other fact that people miss is that God didn't CAUSE Job to suffer, he ALLOWED it." I don't think anyone has said anything to the contrary. "If we keep reading you'll see that it was during one of his sons' feasts that messengers came telling Job of what was happening to him. Why is this? Because that was when Job was afraid." What verse shows us that Job was afraid? Methinks you are making stuff up. "Fear gives Satan the legal right to carry out the acts which you are afraid of just like faith gives God the right to carry out what we have faith for." Please show us the verse which says that fear gives Satan a legal right to do something. And then repent for insisting that human beings EVER have the power to give or withhold rights from the omnipotent, holy, sovereign Creator God of the universe. He is the one who owns everything, and any attempt or declaration to be God's god will be met with nothing but His just wrath. The fact that someone can call oneself a Christian and at the same time claim to have control over God is a clear sign of why reformation is so desperately needed in the 21st-century church. --Joe! |
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2 | No Joyce Meyer?????????????????? | Acts 17:11 | CDBJ | 72074 | ||
Hi Joe, I liked your post but that last part, in my estimation, could use a little emphasis in the right direction. The fact that someone can call oneself a Christian and at the same time claim to have control over God is a clear sign of why reformation is so desperately needed in the 21st-century church. Calling oneself a Christian doesn’t necessarily make it so, and I think what is needed in the 21st. century is the same thing that has been needed in every century, and that is a personal relationship with the person of Jesus Christ, which carries with it an attitude adjustment. Nice post, CDBJ |
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3 | No Joyce Meyer?????????????????? | Acts 17:11 | Reformer Joe | 72076 | ||
"Calling oneself a Christian doesn?t necessarily make it so..." My point exactly. "...and I think what is needed in the 21st. century is the same thing that has been needed in every century, and that is a personal relationship with the person of Jesus Christ, which carries with it an attitude adjustment." That is what it looks like at the individual level, and collectively among God's people that is what we call reformation and revival. It is true that it is needed in every century. Luther said the church should always be "semper reformanda" -- always reforming -- because our tendency is to wander away from the truth. As God's people, we must constantly return to the gospel of of the grace of God, because the "idol factories" we call our hearts are constantly prone to water down, minimize, or distort the truth. And for the church's neglect in doing this, I believe that we are in serious danger of facing God's judgment. Jesus Christ has "removed His lampstand" in the past for far less than some of what I see on the landscape of American Christendom. Very soon, we are going to see one of two things here in the United States: collective repentance or the rod. --Joe! |
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