Recent content by perrero

Then why are you wasting your time on this forum? Should it be shut down?

God would have only one purpose to create eternal (forward eternal) beings and that would be to extend His Love to them and establish a relationship in the process. This true and loving relationship cannot be coerced in any way, shape or form or else it becomes insincere, contrived and therefore...

My bad, totally misread that. Nevertheless, the reference to ships makes you wonder if it is actually Jerusalem. Verse 17 would seem to clarify that; "For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea...

Except Jerusalem does not have a coastline Rev 18:19 "wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costlines! for in one hour is she made desolate."

I'm sorry I wasn't clear on this issue. I do agree with you that God is involved in this world. But to what extent? If He saves everyone from the shootings, the hurricanes, the earthquakes, etc. etc. He might as well change everything so that the world is like He originally design it to be...

Such a thing as the Las Vegas shooting.

I would refer to the story of Lazarus on this one. Luke 16:20

Never mind, I don't need your kind of self-righteous attitude.

Sorry, I'm not here to play games.

I will agree that empathy should be the primordial attitude of our hearts as this is what God would feel at such a calamity, for everyone hurt and everyone affected. Such is his infinite compassion. Which also leads me to believe that God would never orchestrate such a thing.

I'm only going by Romans 5:12 Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned: I don't see death prior to sin, as God is life and not the author of death. And death is still life in a dreadful place.

You may want to be a bit more specific.

Maybe I'm not clear? Do you blame God for what went on in Las Vegas? If not? Who or what is to blame?

Why not? If a man is capable of understanding between good and evil (even though some might need more of God's nudging, wooing, etc, than others) why can he not at some point choose to follow good or for that matter discount the nudging and refuse (freewill choice to ignore) what God is...

Read the context form the beginning of the chapter. God is speaking to Christians but He is telling them what is going to happen to unbelievers. The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but...