David in NJ
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Agree and thank you for allowing time for us to process each others responses.I think I understand what you have been trying to say now. ( Just recovering from a virus that I've had for nearly two weeks, so maybe that has been clouding my thinking, that combined with aging, lol.). Agree that iniquity can begin expressing itself very early on.......although I'm not sure how much is iniquity and how much is just natural. Little girl trying to practice her charms on her Daddy or any male doesn't mean she is doing it consciously and knowingly, and nor is it an invitation to anything but acceptance and approval. Just like a little boy rough-housing trying to wrestle and topple his father down to the ground is not an act of war and invitation to fight to the death. They are both instinctively and innocently rehearsing for adult life to come and testing their mettle, and I think most grown ups instinctively realize that.
This is internet chat and the important in person communication whereby we can speak and cover more ground is lacking here.
Things to consider from the Word of Life
Job 5:6-7
For affliction does not come from the dust,
Nor does trouble spring from the ground;
Yet man is born to trouble/sin
As the sparks fly upward.
Jeremiah 17:9
“The heart is deceitful above all things,
And desperately wicked;
Who can know it?
I, the Lord, search the heart,
I test the mind,
Even to give every man according to his ways,
According to the fruit of his doings.
The Scriptures teach that all of mankind is incapable of salvation apart from God's Mercy = even with 'good' people
Matthew 19:16-26
Now behold, one came and said to Him, “Good Teacher, what good thing shall I do that I may have eternal life?”
So He said to him, “Why do you call Me good? No one is good but One, that is, God.
But if you want to enter into life, keep the commandments.”
He said to Him, “Which ones?”
Jesus said, “‘You shall not murder,’ ‘You shall not commit adultery,’ ‘You shall not steal,’ ‘You shall not bear false witness,’
‘Honor your father and your mother,’ and, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ ”
The young man said to Him, “All these things I have kept from my youth. What do I still lack?”
Jesus said to him, “If you want to be perfect, go, sell what you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow Me.”
But when the young man heard that saying, he went away sorrowful, for he had great possessions.
Then Jesus said to His disciples, “Assuredly, I say to you that it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.
And again I say to you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.”
When His disciples heard it, they were greatly astonished, saying, “Who then can be saved?”
But Jesus looked at them and said to them, “With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”