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NASB | Deuteronomy 32:4 "The Rock! His work is perfect, For all His ways are just; A God of faithfulness and without injustice, Righteous and upright is He. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Deuteronomy 32:4 "The Rock! His work is perfect, For all His ways are just; A God of faithfulness without iniquity (injustice), Just and upright is He. |
Bible Question:
Dear Mark, You say that God wants everyone to be saved, so if someone rejects God, it's not because God wanted them to. That goes in direct oposition to what I read in Job 14:5, "Since his days are determined, the number of months is with You; You have apointed his limits, so that he cannot pass." In Psalm 139:16, "Your eyes saw my substance, being yet unformed. And in Your book they were all written, the days fashioned for me, when as yet there were none of them." And in 1 Peter 2:8, it is clear that those who stumble because they disobey also were destined to do it. From the foundation of the world, the book of life was written before time began and those whose names where not written in the book of life were cast into the lake of fire is revealed in Rev 17:8 and 20:15. This is as clear as it can get. God has declared, "The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord," Psalm 37:23. "just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world," Eph 1:4. How can you say that God wants everyone to be saved when you know that is not how He planned it. If God did give everyone a choice as you say, why do you think He created some with the skill and intelligence to choose the right path, while not giving those abilities to others? This is not a case of which came first, the chicken or the egg. God created the chicken and He created the egg. God created all peoples giving each and everyone their own level of understanding to make right or wrong choices. It dosen't make sense that a loving, just and merciful creator would create human beings just so that one day He could burn trillions of them in the lake of fire for the rest of eternity. By the way, what kind of justice is eternal punishment? What happened to the devine concept of "an eye for an eye?" Thank you in helping me find the truth. Pukalanian |
Bible Answer: The Bible does not teach that we are predestined to one fate or the other this goes against God giving man free will to chose his destiny. Ephesians 1:4 does not teach individual election but rather class election. The key phrase in the Ephesian verse is "in Him." It was not the case that God chose certain individuals to be either saved or lost; rather, the Lord foreordained that a certain class of persons would be saved. What sort of class? Those who submit to heaven's divine plan of redemption, which in this dispensation, involves obeying Jesus the Christ (Hebrews 5:8,9), and entering into that relationship that is described as being "in Him" (cf. Galatians 3:26,27). |