Subject: How did sin originate |
Bible Note: What do you mean by "all-loving"? What Scripture are you using to support that God is "all-loving"? Are you saying God is not all loving? That God shows partiality? John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. (Who does that exclude?) If God is "all-loving" in the way that you seem to be defining it, why didn't he give EVERYONE a chance to build an ark? My Answer: Gen. 6:3 And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also [is] flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years. God was longsuffering and patient with the ungodly in the days of Noah. Noah was a preacher of righteousness. The peoples hearts became hardened. But God gave them 120 years to repent under the preaching of Noah to repent, and they did not. God is not at fault here for the failure of men. God never coerces repentance. God never twists an individuals arm to repent, He convicts them and persuades them, but the act of repentance is something the sinner must do. 2 Pet. 3:9 THE LORD IS not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is LONGSUFFERING to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. Why didn't he choose the whole world instead of on particular people group out of all the nations in the world to be the recipients of His covenant and His favor? My Answer: The recipients of God's favor are those who by grace through faith receive the gift of salvation which is freely offered. The OT saints received and embraced Christ through faith the same as NT saints. God's way of salvation has not changed over the years. Abraham was saved by faith, and we too are saved by exercising faith in Christ. 1 John 2:2 And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for [the sins of] the whole world. In the animal sacrifices the OT saints looked forward to the day that the spotless, sinless lamb of God would be the perfect sacrifice for their sins. Today we look back to the same Lamb of God, who died to pay the penalty for the sins of all who ever lived. But only those who by faith embrace and receive Christ and His finished work at Calvary are the recipients of eternal life. Why did God tell the Israelites to completely blot out everyone who lived in Canaan rather than to evangelize them? Answer: The various reasons for this is probably because God in His foreknowledge, and omniscience knew that the heathen people would not be receptive to the gospel. And to allow them to live among God's people who were to possess the land would mean that over time the pagan people would turn Israel away from the Lord. Why did God raise up nations to judge rebellious Israel, only for those nations to be utterly destroyed? My Answer: God raised up nations, kingdoms, and kings as means of discipline against as you yourself state "rebellious Israel" or disobedient Israel, which ever wording you choose. It is because God loves His people and a loving Father disciplines His children with love. Scripture says: Heb 12:5 And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him: 6 For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth. 7 If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not? 8 But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons. Why does God allow for heathens to be born, live, and die without EVER hearing the gospel or even the name of Jesus Christ? Answer: Since the fall in the garden, everyone born since, is born heathen, including you and I. We were not born saved. As to to the second part of this question I don't agree with that statement. (look at the following scripture) Rom. 1:20 For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, [even] his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse: Rom. 1:28 And even as they did not like to retain God in [their] knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient; Rom. 1:32 Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them. God can be know through observing His creation. But all will be without excuse on judgement day. They won't be able to say: "God you never reveal the reality of your existence to me. They will have no excuse. In short, where do you get the idea that "God loves everyone equally"? My Answer: does God show partiality? Can you disprove, with scripture anything I've sated in my last 2 replys? |