Trevor
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Over the years I've reached the conclusion, that nothing is actually wrong. God is omnipresent, omnipotent and omniscient, which means he is in the past, present and future all in the same time, he is all seeing and all knowing and all powerful. He is the creator of all things, he even claims to have created evil; Isaiah 45:7 (KJV)
I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord do all these things. As well as creating evil, he also created Satan and he placed the tree of the knowledge of good and evil in the garden. He then says a strange thing; Genesis 2:17 (ANIV)
but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat of it you will surely die." When you eat of it, shouldn't he have said ‘if’ you eat of it? It appears that the omniscient God intended that the fall should take place. What happened after the fall, after he had cast Adam and Eve out of the garden, did he destroy them? No, he proved he still loved them by making them clothes; Genesis 3:21 (ANIV)
The Lord God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife and clothed them. After that when Cain committed a cardinal sin by taking the life of his brother Able; did God demand an eye for an eye? No, he placed protection around the murderer; Genesis 4:15 (ANIV)
But the Lord said to him, "Not so; if anyone kills Cain, he will suffer vengeance seven times over." Then the Lord put a mark on Cain so that no-one who found him would kill him. Throughout scripture these anomalies are found that seem to go against law, reason and justice and fly in the face of many of the teachings that are taught in the church today. Take the story of Jacob and Esau, God honored a birthright that had been obtained by deceit. A birthright, not of an ordinary man, but one of a founding father of the Jewish nation, Isaac. I have long since ceased to try to figure out God, I've come to the realization that Jesus is the Word, the bread of life, and I've to just obey his commands and feed on him, that is, just feast on the written word without trying to understand it, and when I do that, the most wonderful thing happens, when the enemy attacks me with evil thoughts and tries to condemn me, the Spirit, as he did for Jesus in the desert, brings to mind scriptures that I have consumed, that defuse the attacks, and also as I feast, my mind is illuminated with truths. To try to understand scripture is futile, it is the heart and mind of God, as scripture says; Mark 4:12 (ANIV)
so that,
" 'they may be ever seeing but never perceiving,
and ever hearing but never understanding;
otherwise they might turn and be forgiven!' " ..
I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord do all these things. As well as creating evil, he also created Satan and he placed the tree of the knowledge of good and evil in the garden. He then says a strange thing; Genesis 2:17 (ANIV)
but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat of it you will surely die." When you eat of it, shouldn't he have said ‘if’ you eat of it? It appears that the omniscient God intended that the fall should take place. What happened after the fall, after he had cast Adam and Eve out of the garden, did he destroy them? No, he proved he still loved them by making them clothes; Genesis 3:21 (ANIV)
The Lord God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife and clothed them. After that when Cain committed a cardinal sin by taking the life of his brother Able; did God demand an eye for an eye? No, he placed protection around the murderer; Genesis 4:15 (ANIV)
But the Lord said to him, "Not so; if anyone kills Cain, he will suffer vengeance seven times over." Then the Lord put a mark on Cain so that no-one who found him would kill him. Throughout scripture these anomalies are found that seem to go against law, reason and justice and fly in the face of many of the teachings that are taught in the church today. Take the story of Jacob and Esau, God honored a birthright that had been obtained by deceit. A birthright, not of an ordinary man, but one of a founding father of the Jewish nation, Isaac. I have long since ceased to try to figure out God, I've come to the realization that Jesus is the Word, the bread of life, and I've to just obey his commands and feed on him, that is, just feast on the written word without trying to understand it, and when I do that, the most wonderful thing happens, when the enemy attacks me with evil thoughts and tries to condemn me, the Spirit, as he did for Jesus in the desert, brings to mind scriptures that I have consumed, that defuse the attacks, and also as I feast, my mind is illuminated with truths. To try to understand scripture is futile, it is the heart and mind of God, as scripture says; Mark 4:12 (ANIV)
so that,
" 'they may be ever seeing but never perceiving,
and ever hearing but never understanding;
otherwise they might turn and be forgiven!' " ..
