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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 | Morant61 | 84602 | ||
Greetings Free Thinker! Thanks for your honesty and thoughfulness my friend. This is a very complex series of questions, with my possible perspectives. However, allow me to share my perspective. What was the alternative? God could avoid evil and it's consequences only by removing our ability to make choices. So, the only real alternative to the system in which we currently live is one in which we have no choice whatsoever. Would you prefer that system? I know that I wouldn't. Another possible perspective concerns the relative 'good' or 'evil' of suffering. Most automatically assume that suffering can only be evil. However, most of the great strides that I have personally made in life came as a result of some great suffering which I have had to endure. So, is suffering really all 'evil'? As far as proof goes, you mention Elijah and the fire from Heaven. However, are you aware that many of those who 'believed' on that day, later turned repeatedly back to false idols? Many of those who saw the miracles of Jesus never believed in Him. Why not? Proof isn't all it is made out to be! ;-) You also mentioned that God should do something to prove that He loves you. He did! He died on a cross for your sins! What more must He do? :-) If you would like to discuss this more fully and more personally, I can be reached at Morant62@hotmail.com. Please feel free to contact me my friend. Your Brother in Christ, Tim Moran |
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3 | cannot eat pork,seafood? | 1 Tim 4:3 | BradK | 84611 | ||
Free Thinker, I believe Tim Moran has spoken wisely in offering you his perspective:-) Please understand that we serve a God of Grace and Mercy! Consider Ephesians 2:1-5: "And you were dead in your trespasses and sins,in which you formerly walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, of the spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience.Among them we too all formerly lived in the lusts of our flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.But God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us,even when we were dead in our transgressions, made us alive together with Christ" Realize that "...God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us."(Rom.5:8) This is a God of love. He didn't wait for us to "clean our act up" or "get right" before we could merit His forgiveness! I see an even more loving truth, that of the following verse "Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from the wrath of God through Him" We stand justified before Him by His sovereign action! The issue of God being "fair" or "just" can best be commented on by scripture itself in Romans 9:14-23: "What shall we say then? There is no injustice with God, is there? May it never be! 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.” 16 So then it does not depend on the man who wills or the man who runs, but on God who has mercy. 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.” 18 So then He has mercy on whom He desires, and He hardens whom He desires. 19 You will say to me then, “Why does He still find fault? For who resists His will?” 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? 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? 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? 23 And He did so to make known the riches of His glory upon vessels of mercy, which He prepared beforehand for glory" May this add to your understanding and be a blessing to you, my friend. Speaking The Truth In Love, BradK |
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