Reading a lot of shocking things here. The Word though is final authority.
Matthew 10 (NKJV)
29 Are not two sparrows sold for a copper coin? And not one of them falls to the ground apart from your Father’s will.
The word "WILL" is not found in any Greek text. Added by the translators. In context, two sparrows go for very little but we are much better than sparrows. Dead animals that fell to the ground were forbidden to eat, and any dead animal that fell on something became unclean.
So, Jesus did not say Sparrows don't die apart from the will of God, Jesus said if God knows what is clean, unclean. Knows when a sparrow dies on earth though two of them go for so little, He will certainly know you have needs and even knows the number of hairs on your head.
We need to be careful of translations that ADD words. They can be useful, but we need to be aware of the difference. The verses show what God knows and keeps track of in the present.
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Are not two sparrows sold for an assar? and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father; and of you--even the hairs of the head are all numbered;
(Mat 10:29-30)
Classik,
I don't know you as God does but that question does whisper, just a bit of one's faith in God. God is omnipotent or He is not God the Creator and the answer, simply put reads, He Is or in the first person, I Am. the textual proofs for those that need them are found in the Book of Job, the Exodus and through out the rest of the scriptures.
AS much as most of the people inside the Church rolls dislike it, there is nothing that happens on the Earth that is not either directly controlled by God or else it is permitted because of His permissive will. God is in control!
This can be proven false, if we can prove it's possible for man to limit and hinder God. One has to ask if everything that God permits is some permissive will of his that he allows, or are these things totally against his will, and He is not happy about it at all.
Jesus prayed, thy will be done on Earth as it is in Heaven. Does God have two separate wills, one for Earth and one for Heaven? According to Jesus He does not, neither would he pray this if God's will was always being done on Earth. The rule of God, (Kingdom of God in us) enforces his will on earth. It's clear His will is not always being done here.
The Lord said: Peter, come out, it's me.
Peter walks on the Water to the Lord, but notices the wind and waves. Being afraid he begins to sink. With the Lords command came the ability to come on the water.
But when he saw the wind boisterous, he was afraid; and beginning to sink, he cried, saying, Lord, save me. And immediately Jesus stretched forth his hand, and caught him, and said unto him,
O thou of little faith, wherefore didst thou doubt?
(Mat 14:30-31)
Peter's fault he sank, or the Lord's will?
Adam:
And God blessed them, and God
said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.
(Gen 1:28-29)
And
God saw every thing that he had made,
and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.
(Gen 1:31)
Adam subdue the Earth? Nope, turned it over to Satan.
Adam keep his dominion over all things God told him? Nope, the earth grew thistles and some animals became hostile.
Was everything Good when God made it? Yep.
Did it stay good? Nope.
Is there anything in God's plan here for things to fall apart later? Nope.
Adam's fault........... Not God's predestined plan or will.
For by one mans sin death reigned........... Not!!! by God's sovereign plan and foreknowledge Death reigned.
Israel: God said:
And it shall come to pass, when ye be come to the land
which the LORD will give you, according as he hath promised, that ye shall keep this service.
(
Exo 12:25)
Is it the Lords plan, and will to give them the promised land? Yep.
did they get there as the Lord promised? Nope.
After the number of the days in which ye searched the land, even forty days, each day for a year, shall ye bear your iniquities, even forty years, and
ye shall know my breach of promise. I the LORD have said, I will surely do it unto all this evil congregation,
that are gathered together against me: in this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die.
(
Num 14:34-35)
Was it the Lords predestined will, foreknowledge, permissible will they disobeyed and disqualified themselves from what the Lord promised? Nope.
Seeing therefore it remaineth that some must enter therein, and they to whom it was first preached
entered not in because of unbelief:
(Heb 4:6)
Lords will people live in unbelief? Nope.
How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert! Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and
limited the Holy One of Israel.
(Psa 78:40-41)
is it possible to stop and limit God with what He wants to do, and bless with? Yep.
I have about 20 more, including Job and that situation, but I hope I made the point.
That's what the gospel is all about--the righteous dying unjustly for the unrighteous.
This is why I detest the bantering about who does evil in the world--God or satan. Evil can't so much as bat an eyelash 'cept that God has found some useful purpose in it.
I could post a whole lot of scriptures here. There is nothing useful about evil.
But though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies.
For he doth not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men.
(Lam 3:32-33)
There is nothing in God's original and best plan, will, nature, that God uses evil for any useful purpose. Evil is the result of disobedience. and there are lots of things that happen that are extremely evil that God has no part of or plan. If Evil comes, it was not his will at all. Not his will the man slept with his fathers wife, not his will many disobey and are judged, not his will the evil slay the wicked. Evil is a byproduct of obedience to the devil.
2 Corinthians 5:8 We are confident, I say, and would prefer to be away from the body (die bodily) and at home with the Lord.
We all die at some point. God determines when.
ZERO, and I mean ZERO scripture support this. Word only, and you stay on track. I can give plenty of scriptures that will extend your life though.
There is a time every man shall die, we don't stay around here forever. We only die one time, not reincarnated, but once, then judgement.
One of many scriptures:
Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right. Honour thy father and mother; (which is the first commandment with promise;) That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth.
(Eph 6:1-3)
Blessings.
