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In the book of Job,we see Job being tested. Now it wasn't God who really did the testing, but he allowed Satan to test Job.
We see something similar in the New Testament when Jesus tells Peter Satan wants to test him. ( Luke 22:31; )
I mention the above because I don't always think it's God who causes people to be tested ( Jas 1:13; ) but he does allow Satan to tempt us and deceive us sometimes.
Yet the Bible mentions that God intentionally lets people who continue in sin to be "deluded".
2 Thes 2:11; For this reason God will send upon them a deluding influence so that they will believe what is false,
2 Thes 2:12; in order that they all may be judged who did not believe the truth, but took pleasure in wickedness.
Rom 1:28; And just as they did not see fit to acknowledge God any longer, God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do those things which are not proper,
Eph 2:1; And you were dead in your trespasses and sins,
Eph 2:2; in which you formerly walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, of the spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience.
Rom 11:25; For I do not want you, brethren, to be uninformed of this mystery--so that you will not be wise in your own estimation--that a partial hardening has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in;
2 Cor 3:14; But their minds were hardened; for until this very day at the reading of the old covenant the same veil remains unlifted, because it is removed in Christ.
2 Cor 3:15; But to this day whenever Moses is read, a veil lies over their heart;
While God may allow this to happen to people sometimes it is simply the hardness of our own hearts.
Mark 6:52; for they had not gained any insight from the incident of the loaves, but their heart was hardened.
2 Tim 3:6; For among them are those who enter into households and captivate weak women weighed down with sins, led on by various impulses,
2 Tim 3:7; always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
2 Tim 3:8; Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these men also oppose the truth, men of depraved mind, rejected in regard to the faith.
Tit 3:3; For we also once were foolish ourselves, disobedient, deceived, enslaved to various lusts and pleasures, spending our life in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another.
Could it be that if we choose to continue in sin, God eventually gives us over to sin?
We see something similar in the New Testament when Jesus tells Peter Satan wants to test him. ( Luke 22:31; )
I mention the above because I don't always think it's God who causes people to be tested ( Jas 1:13; ) but he does allow Satan to tempt us and deceive us sometimes.
Yet the Bible mentions that God intentionally lets people who continue in sin to be "deluded".
2 Thes 2:11; For this reason God will send upon them a deluding influence so that they will believe what is false,
2 Thes 2:12; in order that they all may be judged who did not believe the truth, but took pleasure in wickedness.
Rom 1:28; And just as they did not see fit to acknowledge God any longer, God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do those things which are not proper,
Eph 2:1; And you were dead in your trespasses and sins,
Eph 2:2; in which you formerly walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, of the spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience.
Rom 11:25; For I do not want you, brethren, to be uninformed of this mystery--so that you will not be wise in your own estimation--that a partial hardening has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in;
2 Cor 3:14; But their minds were hardened; for until this very day at the reading of the old covenant the same veil remains unlifted, because it is removed in Christ.
2 Cor 3:15; But to this day whenever Moses is read, a veil lies over their heart;
While God may allow this to happen to people sometimes it is simply the hardness of our own hearts.
Mark 6:52; for they had not gained any insight from the incident of the loaves, but their heart was hardened.
2 Tim 3:6; For among them are those who enter into households and captivate weak women weighed down with sins, led on by various impulses,
2 Tim 3:7; always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
2 Tim 3:8; Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these men also oppose the truth, men of depraved mind, rejected in regard to the faith.
Tit 3:3; For we also once were foolish ourselves, disobedient, deceived, enslaved to various lusts and pleasures, spending our life in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another.
Could it be that if we choose to continue in sin, God eventually gives us over to sin?
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