All I can do is laugh, shake my head and say I hope that works out for you Vengle.
Not sure if you mean my sleep problem or if you are commenting bout the discussion I was having with Prentis.
Either way, your comment is appreciated.
The things I discussed with Prentis have to do with a question that first came to me as, "If we were all sealed up under sin from before the founding of the world, due to the sin of Adam, then why would we need that law to put us to death?"
And so the debate was ignited within me. I get into my biggest arguments with myself.
On the surface it would seem that either one or the other is true, but not both. And if both are true, well then, it could only mean that I was not yet seeing the lion's share of what was there to be seen.
The answers I eventually learned turned out to pivot on these two statements by Paul:
Romans 4:15 "Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression."
Romans 5:13 "(For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed when there is no law."
Now we can see what I said in Paul's two statements, "God would not put us to death for sin if we had no capability within us not to sin, for that would not be justice." Yet we saw many through out the Bible that he clearly punished and many who he utterly destroyed for sin. (I am not speaking of his letting us live out a normal life-span as though we are but a common animal. I am speaking about being punished and executed for sin.)
Similarly, if we had no innate ability to keep that Old law, then that law would not be just to convict us of its violation and thus confirm sin in us.
This is very simple common sense reasoning, and we see Paul used that kind of reasoning in those two verses I cited.
It is our faith in the goodness of God that steps in to make us desire to understand this.
And it is not a mystery in the sense of what we today seem to think of mysteries as being unable to be understood.
The mysteries the Bible speaks of means only that it is a mystery to us because we are puzzled by it before we receive God's help to understand.