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1 | cannot eat pork,seafood? | 1 Tim 4:3 | FreeThinker | 84600 | ||
Thank you Tim! I didn't look close to the timeline. That makes a lot of sense. On the second point, I still have many questions. Such as: If God knows everything ahead of time, wouldn't have been better that I didn't exist since I no longer believe and therefore damned to hell? What would he do that? He would have known that I would find fault with his book and a host of his followers. I don't say this to be mean! I am very grateful for your enlightening information that you gave to me on the first question! But I do find fault with a god that knows everything and still allows things to happen. He, by your account, knew that Adam and Eve would fail and that Ham would fail after the flood. We own our evil ways to the first two humans that ever existed? And the to Ham that continued it after the world was nearly wiped clean? I never stood a chance! And the only thing that I get told is that be faith I can be saved. Faith!?! No proof? When I was learning math, the teacher had to prove that 4x equals 8 so therefore x equals 2. I didn’t just go on faith. And god knowing all would have realized that, I for one, need proof. If he is truly loving and caring and wants me to have an afterlife in heaven, then he would have proved it to me somehow. The last time god was seen was 2000 years ago! No one has seen him since. My son has faith that I will come home every night after work, why? Because I have proven it to him time and time again. Problems for me: Exodus 21 owning people! I get told that this was OK for the times, but not now. The old testament is not as important as the new. Matthew 5 45 That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust. Why? Luke 14:26 If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple. This is in discussion on this board right now. Many are giving good spins on it so that it does not sound so bad. So my point to all of this is simply, god knew me, and how he made me, why would he let that happen. If he knew all the problems that creating lucifer would cause, why did he do it? If you say that without knowing evil, how would you know good. Well I don’t know what it is like being antimatter either. I don’t know what it is like being female. So that just doesn’t answer the question. One story in the bible, 1 Kings 18, gives a great story about Elijah who built an altar to god to prove to the follower a baal that god was true and baal was an idol. That is what I am waiting for. As soon as someone lights an altar with no earthly help on command, then I will believe. God obviously cared enough about the followers of baal to prove himself, does he not care enough about me? |
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2 | cannot eat pork,seafood? | 1 Tim 4:3 | Hank | 84639 | ||
Free Thinker: Scripture has answers to your questions and solutions to your problems, although they may not make you extremely happy. For example, "What shall we say then. Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid. For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion. So, then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that showeth mercy....Thou will say then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault? For who hath resisted his will? Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus? Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honor, and another unto dishonor? What if God, willing to show his wrath and to make his power known, endured with much long-suffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction; and that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy which he had before prepared unto glory, even us, whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles." (from Romans 9). Whether we like it or not, God is Sovereign. He does things His way and doesn't ask of man, "Is that all right with you, or do you have a better suggestion?" God made it clear to Job through a series of questions what his place was in the scheme of things. (Read Job 38 through 42). The Bible teaches God's people to pray to God. But the Bible never teaches man to question God or talk back to God. ..... On the subject of faith: Seeing is not believing. The Jewish leaders of Jesus' time on earth were, many of them, eyewitness to Jesus' signs and miracles, but they hated Him all the more and didn't believe. Some of them went so far as to accuse Him of performing His miracles by the power of Satan. So how does one believe? The Bible says that faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God. (Romans 10:17). --Hank | ||||||