Barbarian
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Yep. And He said it's good.Huh God made the world this way?
Someone's are. And sheep don't have fangs.At least now your teeth are actually showing
God didn't punish other things for our sins. He is just, remember? He punished us. Evil exists only in humans on this world.And I thought the world is the way it is because of the fall.
A lot of people, when they first learn about Christians, are surprised. So that's understandable.Would you look at this whole other doctrine you're spewing that I never heard before !
If you think so, you have a lot of trouble with reading comprehension.Ok then where is the line of demarcation-what is right and what is wrong? According to you everything is alright then.
You don't understand what that means. He doesn't mean wickedness. He means misfortune. Bad things happen. But God is entirely good and does not create wickedness.Scripture does say He made both good and evil. But does that mean he makes man choose evil....?
Church father Hippolytus of Rome (170 – 235 AD) rendered it this way several centuries ago when he wrote: ‘….the word of Isaiah, I, the Lord, make peace, and create evil; meaning by that, I maintain peace, and permit war.'” (J. H. MacMahon (translator) “On Psalm LXXVII” in The Refutation of All Heresies by Hippolytus, Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 1868, p429)
“He gave them up … that is, he permitted them to rush by their own will, or as impelled by the devil: for this signification of permission is extremely frequent in the Hebrew verbs …” (Philip Melanchthon, as quoted in The Dark Side of Things: An Exposition in The Evangelical Repository: A Quarterly Magazine of Theological Literature, Vol. 1 Glasgow: Lang, Adamson, 1863, p100)
Note that, while the reference above is quoted form a source published in 1863, it is attributed to Melanchthon, an associate of Martin Luther from hundreds of years earlier.
“When God is said to harden men’s hearts,-to deliver them up to a reprobate mind,-to send them strong delusions, that they should believe a lie, and the like;- it is infinitely far from being meant of an efficacious impulse in God Almighty. That all those verbs,- to harden, to blind, to deliver up, to send delusions, to deceive, and the like,-are by an ordinary Hebraism only permissive in signification, though active in sound, is placed without all controversy.” (Thomas Pierce, I, p23-24 edition of 1658 as quoted in Jackson, The Providence of God, p401)
Let it be God's way, and this will bother you no longer.