The OT, unsafe, reveals both God's justice and humanity's brokenness. The NT reveals that God's final answer to sin was the cross, where justice and mercy met together!
it is God's judgment on thia Wicked cursed world and it shows the unbelieving People that they need a Saviour and that everything they worked for and all the STUFF they gathered in their lives and held in high esteem over God is fruitless and can be gone in an instance and who then do they rely on ----their life's gathering is just dust -----and they sit crying as their life vanishes before them ------
Truth, Mendalla, must produce love. Love must reflect truth.I've always liked the process approach myself. God's power isn't to change the world unilaterally, but to change the hearts of people to get them to change the world. God does this through lures, things that inspire us to do better and be better. So God's approach to disease isn't to miraculously make it all go away, it's to inspire compassionate, caring health professionals to care for those suffering and scientists to try to mitigate or eliminate disease through things like cures and vaccines. Why this limit on God's power? God wants free, loving people living in relationship with God and the universe, not robots controlled by God's every whim. God wants us to choose to be better, to choose to make a better world, not just shove it down our throats. Christ is a lure, but not the only one. In the end, anything that brings us closer to a caring, compassionate effort to make a better world pleases God, not believing the right thing or following the right religion.
And that's enough heresy for this thread today, I guess.
Christianity's claim, chansen, is that God's present even in the places where reason fails.
WHy do you see this as a contradiction? MAybe both are true.
And we're back to, "You can't possibly understand." The final refuge of scammers.
I don't see what Jaebius said as a contradiction -----I see it as him being confused as being confused as to first the scriptures he uses to prove that the Spirit opens the heart which he quotes wrong ----- for starters -----
this is the Scripture New International Version One of those listening was a woman from the city of Thyatira named Lydia, a dealer in purple cloth. She was a worshiper of God. The Lord opened her heart to respond to Paul’s message. |
Natural disasters, unsafe, remind us how much creation's groaning for redemption (Romans 8:22-23) and how desperately we need Christ's return to make all things new.
Find this beautiful, unsafe.Here is one for you all -----
Do Non Believers call out to God in a crisis or when Disaster strikes -----
According to this definitely some do ------Surprise you ??????
Non-believers turn to prayer in a crisis, poll finds
Family and friends top the list of reasons to call on God, rather than global issues such as poverty or disasterswww.theguardian.com
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Non-believers turn to prayer in a crisis, poll finds
For many non-believers, it is an instinctive response to a crisis: “Please, God.” So perhaps it should not be surprising that a new survey has found that one in five adults pray despite saying they are not religious.
Among the non-religious, personal crisis or tragedy is the most common reason for praying, with one in four saying they pray to gain comfort or feel less lonely.
