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Results from: Answers On or After: Thu 12/31/70 Author: TRAW6 Ordered by Date |
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1 | "just" consequences? | Gen 3:1 | TRAW6 | 50819 | ||
First let me respond by saying that God doesn't have any enemy's because nothing and noone is on God's level. He is omnipotent(all-powerful). The Devil and his angels have limited power; both in what they are able to do and in the length of time they have to do it in. Secondly, when Adam and Eve ate of the fruit of the garden from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil - we were all brought into this "war", because Adam through his disobedience to God's direct command of "not to eat of the tree", gave over his rights to the earth, thus by one man sin entered into the world because Adam was carrying the 'seed' of all humanity in him. And lastly God in order to keep us(mankind) from being left in that perpetual state of "lostness" (Gen. 3:22-24) has done everything possible to help us; even to the point of giving the life of His only Son to die a horrible torturous death on a cross to reconcile a lost world back to an all loving God and Creator. As for any suffering that the world may endure it is because "the thief comes but to steal, kill and destroy"' but "every good and perfect gift comes down from the Father of Lights in whom there is no shadow of turning. In other words God does not cause anything that steals from you, kills you or destroys you. We all must be educated properly in order to know where to lay the blame. The Bible says in quoting God speaking, "My people suffer for lack of knowledge". If we knew more of the truth - we wouldn't suffer under the lies that our enemy feeds us. The word "just" means that for all of God's love and mercy and grace and long-suffering He is equally balanced to give justice for the Devil and demons as well as for the evil in men's heart's. Man is born under sin and in a perpetual state of sin - it is the blood of Jesus and only the pure and unblemished blood of an all loving God that can wash the human heart clean. | ||||||