This is my last post on this thread, but I really wanted to address the biggest problem that I have with it and I'm sure that many others on here will agree with me. If God created Satan/Lucifer out of wrath, then why the heck did He send His Son to die on the cross for our sins? The Lord didn't set out to condemn the world. For heavens sake Christmas is coming up! Am I one of the few people left on this planet that remembers why we celebrate it!?
"For God so loved the world that He gave His Only begotten Son, for whosoever shall believeth in Him shall not perish but have everlasting life." I might be off on few of the words but I still think that my point is adressed. I don't see anything about His wrath on the world, I only see His love. He gave us the free gift of salvation. It's our choice whether or not we want to accept it. Okay,.. rant over.
Tessa, I know that you said that you were done with this thread (and now so am I) but I still wanted you to see this.
I agree with you as God's wrath is set against those who reject Him and His Son as salvation is a free gift by God's grace to all who have faith in the gift He has given us being His only begotten Son Christ Jesus. Satan, who knows he will be cast into the lake of fire, doesn't bother those who are already his own, but tries to tempt those who are in the hands of the Lord as he tries to steal our faith. This is why there are so many deceivers in the world today that preach another gospel as they are being used by Satan without even knowing they are for they know not Christ
Ephesians 2:8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves:
it is the gift of God: 9 Not of works, lest any man should boast. 10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.
Jeremiah 4:22 For my people
is foolish, they have not known me; they
are sottish children, and they have none understanding: they
are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.
John 10:26 But ye believe not, because ye are not of my sheep, as I said unto you. 27 My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me: 28 And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any
man pluck them out of my hand. 29 My Father, which gave
them me, is greater than all; and no
man is able to pluck
them out of my Father's hand. 30
I and my Father are one.
John 14:7 If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him.