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1 | Can We Put God in the Dock? | Bible general Archive 1 | Hank | 65333 | ||
Here is a statement from Post No. 65304: "God is now obligated." Can anyone justfy this statement by citing Scripture? Wherein does Scripture teach that we sinful human beings have the authority, the power, or the right to put God in the dock, to place, by any act of our will, the sovereign Lord under obligation of any kind? --Hank | ||||||
2 | Can We Put God in the Dock? | Bible general Archive 1 | mbooker | 65334 | ||
I will worship toward thy holy temple, and praise thy name for thy lovingkindness and for thy truth: for thou hast magnified thy word above all thy name. Ps 138:2 God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good? Num 23:19 In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began; Titus 1:2 Remember this, and shew yourselves men: bring it again to mind, O ye transgressors. Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me, Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure: Calling a ravenous bird from the east, the man that executeth my counsel from a far country: yea, I have spoken it, I will also bring it to pass; I have purposed it, I will also do it. Is 46:8-11 From my current understanding, I would not say God is obligated to man. But I will say that God is obligated to his Word. An encounter that Moses had with God also leads me to believe that God is obligated to his Word. And the LORD said unto Moses, Go, get thee down; for thy people, which thou broughtest out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves: They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them: they have made them a molten calf, and have worshipped it, and have sacrificed thereunto, and said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which have brought thee up out of the land of Egypt. And the LORD said unto Moses, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people: Now therefore let me alone, that my wrath may wax hot against them, and that I may consume them: and I will make of thee a great nation. And Moses besought the LORD his God, and said, LORD, why doth thy wrath wax hot against thy people, which thou hast brought forth out of the land of Egypt with great power, and with a mighty hand? Wherefore should the Egyptians speak, and say, For mischief did he bring them out, to slay them in the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth? Turn from thy fierce wrath, and repent of this evil against thy people. Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, thy servants, to whom thou swarest by thine own self, and saidst unto them, I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have spoken of will I give unto your seed, and they shall inherit it for ever. And the LORD repented of the evil which he thought to do unto his people. Ex 32:7-14 Wherefore should the Egyptians speak, and say, For mischief did he bring them out, to slay them in the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth? Turn from thy fierce wrath, and repent of this evil against thy people. v12 Here, it appears as if Moses is questioning God, then telling God what to do but… Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, thy servants, to whom thou swarest by thine own self, and saidst unto them, I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have spoken of will I give unto your seed, and they shall inherit it for ever. v13 Here, we see the promise that God had spoken to Abraham, Isaac, and Israel. Since God said ‘I have spoken it, I will also bring it to pass; I have purposed it, I will also do it’, I am lead to believe that God was not obligated to Moses but he was obligated to his spoken word. I do realize that saying ‘God is obligated…’ can and does sound quite pompous to some, so I will say it this way: This is the confidence that I have in Him: God, who cannot lie, will do what He says and will bring to pass what He purposes. |
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