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AMPLIFIED 2015 | 2 Timothy 3:16 All Scripture is God-breathed [given by divine inspiration] and is profitable for instruction, for conviction [of sin], for correction [of error and restoration to obedience], for training in righteousness [learning to live in conformity to God's will, both publicly and privately--behaving honorably with personal integrity and moral courage]; |
Subject: God allowing things in our lives |
Bible Note: Dear Miller, Regarding God's use of Satan: I don't understand the problem. I believe I asserted fairly clearly that God makes use of secondary causes. If not in a post to you, then to others (see, for example, most recently in post #193535). God actively makes use of "secondary causes" in working out His eternal purpose. Those secondary causes include the actions of men (both lost and saved), angels (both fallen and elect), nations, nature, etc. Your "proof" is rooted in a logical fallacy called a false dilemma. All truth originates in God. He grants men the knowledge necessary to minister to the sick (Proverbs 2:6). It would be sinful not to make use of these provisions. All healing, ultimately, comes from God. So, if you believe that God never explicitly sends disease: Who does it say brought the plagues upon Egypt in Exodus 11:1, or leprosy on Miriam in Numbers 12, or Uzziah in 2 Chronicles 26:20, or the diseases upon the Israelites in Numbers 11:33, 2 Samuel 24:15, or 2 Chronicles 21:15, or Herod in Acts 12:23? Who does it say will will bring disease to His people in Leviticus 26:21 and Deuteronomy 28:61? What was the source of Paul's thorn in the flesh (2 Corinthians 12:7)? God is not one who is benign, yet helpless. He is not a Plan B kind of God. He is not a God based in wishful thinking. No... He is fully sovereign. Plans formed long ago are carried out in perfect faithfulness. Nothing can thwart His eternal purpose, and He leaves nothing to chance. Even as I type, my father is dying of cancer. By God's grace, he is honoring the Lord moment by moment in the few days that he has remaining. My father is entirely in the wonderfully loving, wise, holy, and powerful hands of the Lord. Thus, our hope is a confident expectation of the certitude that He will fulfill His every promise. In Him, Doc |