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1 | How can God let us go through pain? | 1 Pet 2:24 | Reformer Joe | 43405 | ||
You wrote: "What I am saying-is that God the Father delegated running of things here on earth-to Jesus! And that Jesus delegated running of things here on earth-TO US! So, who is supposed to be running things here on Earth? WE ARE!" And this is the blasphemous result of getting God all wrong. We suddenly become "little Jesuses" who are no different at all from the Son of God. We are Christ's ambassadors, his empowered representatives. However, Christ is still the ACTING head of the church (Ephesians 1:25, 5:23; Colossians 1:18): "Let no one keep defrauding you of your prize by delighting in self-abasement and the worship of the angels, taking his stand on visions he has seen, inflated without cause by his fleshly mind, and not holding fast to the head, from whom the entire body, being supplied and held together by the joints and ligaments, grows with a growth which is from God." --Colossians 2:18-19 Listen, I know from your profile that you claim to have been a Christian for less than two years. Do you really think that in such a short time you have mastered the truth regarding God, that you have it all figured out? I have been a Christian for two decades, and after years and years of study I still have so much to learn about God. However, I do know from what I have been taught through the BIBLE is that suffering is not a mistake, it is not something beyond the control of a weak and impotent God, and that it is something that the apostles rejoiced in and we are commanded to endure. You may close your Bible, lock it up in a safe, cover your ears, close your eyes, and repeat, "I do not believe in the 'suffering doctrine'" all that you like. It will not change for one second what the TRUTH about God is, and the God you are claiming to worship is NOT the true and living God as revealed in the Scriptures. What you are guilty of is idolatry, and do not think for one moment that God will not hold you accountable for rejecting His revelation in favor of a made-up "God." --Joe! |
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2 | How can God let us go through pain? | 1 Pet 2:24 | Hank | 43410 | ||
Excellent series of posts, Joe, in which you allowed the Bible to speak its eternal truth plainly and forcefully about the nature of the sovereign and transcendent God. Having been a Christian for more than five decades, I have seen not only the brands of error being dispensed by electronic media charlatans of our day -- the Brother Bennies and the Sister Joyces -- but I have also seen the seen error, by a different name perhaps but error just the same, being promulgated in a by-gone time in tent meetings and sawdust revivals. We called them the Elmer Gantrys back then. It is painfully obvious to me that the thirst for a feel-good, non-biblical burlesque version of pseudo-Christianity that existed five decades ago exists still. The itching ears of yesteryear that gave audience to false teaching continue to itch still. The need to preach the word was a crying need then and is a crying need still. Joe, the things you have said in this series of posts may fall into disfavor and be called merely your spin or opinion, or your faulty interpretation or your own pet doctrine that somehow is viewed as being under the private ownership of apologistics such as we whose aim it is to direct the searchlight of the truth of God's word to expose the error of man's opinion. In this endeavor I consider this series of your posts a noteworthy monument. --Hank | ||||||
3 | How can God let us go through pain? | 1 Pet 2:24 | Hank | 43412 | ||
Lest somone may not understand my meaning in the previous post, _apologistics_ should read _apologists_ and for that error I apologize. --Hank | ||||||