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NASB | Galatians 2:17 "But if, while seeking to be justified in Christ, we ourselves have also been found sinners, is Christ then a minister of sin? May it never be! |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Galatians 2:17 "But if, while we seek to be justified in Christ [by faith], we ourselves are found to be sinners, does that make Christ an advocate or promoter of our sin? Certainly not! |
Subject: But aren't they mutually exclusive? |
Bible Note: Norrie: It is a leap in logic to say that because God ordains everything that happens, that he allows evil to exist just to punish individuals. Hopw do you explain Job? Was it not God's plan for all of that to happen to him (notice, who points Satan in Job's direction in chapter 1?)? Did Job do something to deserve the evil that befell him? Nope, the text makes that perfectly clear as well. Therefore, we have God pointing out Job, knowing exactly how Satan would react (since God is omniscient), and using the entire incident to glorify Himself. This is the God who is. As far as Hitler: when did God know that Hitler would commit the atrocities that he did? Who brought Hitler into existence? Who allowed him to gain the power that he did, knowing all along the evil in Hitler's heart? Who allowed Hitler to build the concentration camps? Who allowed him to kill as many as he did before being stopped? And the most important question: did any of the Holocaust take God by surprise in the slightest? And, lastly, what do you make of verses like these? Remember the former things long past, For I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is no one like Me, Declaring the end from the beginning, And from ancient times things which have not been done, Saying, 'My purpose will be established, And I will accomplish all My good pleasure'; Calling a bird of prey from the east, The man of My purpose from a far country. Truly I have spoken; truly I will bring it to pass. I have planned it, surely I will do it. --Isaiah 46:9-11 Again, the question isn't whether you SEE God doing it. The question is whether that is the God as revealed in the whole counsel of the Bible. Thanks! --Joe! |