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1 | Is God selfish? | Rom 9:20 | CURIOUS2 | 53797 | ||
Dear Elder I have a question which was posted by my younger sister and which I am also wanting to know the answer. I do love the Lord dearly but there are some honest questions that are in my heart and my sister's too. The question is why does God make Lucifer when He knows that Lucifer will sin against Him and consequently caused Adam and Eve to sin and the whole human race to suffer. Is not God selfish when His idea is to create human beings to fellowship with Him? I know He has done much in sacrificing His son for us, but look at the sufferings that are in the world right now. Would we not be better off if we wouldn't even created at all? Of course, you can say that the sufferings are created by Satan. But that will bring us back to the first question. Satan was created by God and God is omniscient! I eagerly await your answer. Sincerely |
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2 | Is God selfish? | Rom 9:20 | Cyclist | 53798 | ||
Greeting CURIOUS! This is the day that the Lord has made! I will rejoice and be glad in it! Please forgive me for this short answer but I've been very busy. Not that I could give the best answer to your question, there are others on this forum who I consider to be my elders and give very, very helpful answers, but, I noticed that an answer was not yet submitted to you. I don't know about you but I am kind of impatient and look for a quick answer, so, here you go. Verse 20 especially Rom 9:11 for though the twins were not yet born and had not done anything good or bad, so that God's purpose according to His choice would stand, not because of works but because of Him who calls, Rom 9:12 it was said to her, "THE OLDER WILL SERVE THE YOUNGER." Rom 9:13 Just as it is written, "JACOB I LOVED, BUT ESAU I HATED." Rom 9:14 What shall we say then? There is no injustice with God, is there? May it never be! Rom 9:15 For He says to Moses, "I WILL HAVE MERCY ON WHOM I HAVE MERCY, AND I WILL HAVE COMPASSION ON WHOM I HAVE COMPASSION." Rom 9:16 So then it does not depend on the man who wills or the man who runs, but on God who has mercy. Rom 9:17 For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, "FOR THIS VERY PURPOSE I RAISED YOU UP, TO DEMONSTRATE MY POWER IN YOU, AND THAT MY NAME MIGHT BE PROCLAIMED THROUGHOUT THE WHOLE EARTH." Rom 9:18 So then He has mercy on whom He desires, and He hardens whom He desires. Rom 9:19 You will say to me then, "Why does He still find fault? For who resists His will?" Rom 9:20 On the contrary, who are you, O man, who answers back to God? The thing molded will not say to the molder, "Why did you make me like this," will it? Rom 9:21 Or does not the potter have a right over the clay, to make from the same lump one vessel for honorable use and another for common use? Rom 9:22 What if God, although willing to demonstrate His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction? Rom 9:23 And He did so to make known the riches of His glory upon vessels of mercy, which He prepared beforehand for glory, Many blessings to you in Christ Jesus my Lord! Cyclist I will bless the Lord at all times! His praise shall continually be in my mouth! |
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3 | 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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4 | Is God selfish? | Rom 9:20 | CURIOUS2 | 53993 | ||
Dear GoatFeathers Thank you for your explanation. I have now gained understanding in my mind but do pray with me that the same will reach my heart. Sincerely |
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