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Sorry for the bunched up posts -- it can't be helped. Great question! Scripture is inspired. God didn't sit at the desk and write it with His hand. However, darkness is NOT a neutral other. There is nothing neutral about the opposite of good. I mentioned that it could have been this way in...

Re the highlighted above...(click to expand) It's important to say that, like Job, I accept what comes and will never abandon God even though I don't understand what we're discussing. I trust that He loves us and live by this. Sometimes I've been upset with Him because of being in a fragile...

Job was written for the very reason we're speaking about this. To try to find some answer. Was it found in the book of Job? No. In fact, it makes it all the worse. God is giving permission to the adversary to USE Job to prove a point? Where's the love in that? And the grace, and the mercy? All...

LOL You should move here. I hear this all the time. Italians speak this way...: Si, Si...No. And we understand it too!!

ya...yes. Question is: What caused that glitch?

Why is evil in quotation marks? (and the way you quoted me makes it seem like I think evil comes from Him --- God)(I know it was not intentional. No apology necessary.)

No. To present us with a choice is not well accepted even by church heirarchy. We still fall back on the God being all-good idea. Good created good. He could have still given us a choice... Him or neutral. Why would it have had to be bad?

OK. I know what you mean by separation now. Dross. How could some being that is all-good, create anything bad if there is no bad in Him? If there IS bad in Him, then we cannot say He is all-good. We can only say He is good, which would allow for some bad. Plus, we learn from the N.T. that...

Aspen, I was just going to log off when I saw this. (use the "reply" or it won't get "quoted"...) Anyway, Yes, we agree on the enemy. He is not omni-present, he does not know our thoughts, and I agree on all you said above. Augustine. I don't like him because he changed his mind about a...

Hi RitaX I'm not so sure what you say was done intentionally. In Mathew 25:41 (or thereabouts) Jesus DOES say to some that they will go to hell. Now, which hell did He mean? The bible was translated very badly when it comes to this one word. The KJV says that "they will go into everlasting...

Hi D, You should do a little study on this. In the O.T. we read about Gehenna, Hades and Sheoul. None of which represent hell as it is understood by many churches. The hell that is preached is in 2 Peter 2:4 but it's reserved for fallen angels. No one really knows what hell is. The mere fact...

Sorry, I lost this... Agreed. I see what you mean about the glass. I'm not sure I agree. It's not easy to speak about spiritual matter... Let me ask you this: Is the devil a real being? Are there devil type fallen angels in hell and running around the earth? IOW, I believe the devil is a real...

Scott, Do you realize what you're saying? If it is NOT US who DO but Jesus in us, it means that when we sin it is JESUS sinning OR failing to keep us from sinning. Some concepts are a little difficult to grasp, but grasp them we must or our theology gets twisted out of shape. We have the Holy...

LOL Pretty funny! A pastor of mine in the Nazarene church used to say that God is our navigator NOT the DRIVER!!!

Are you saying the darkness was or represented evil? Genesis 1:2

@aspen understands you, but I don't. What do you mean by "separation"?

Whether it's translated evil or calamity, it's the same. The O.T. persons believed that God, who had revealed Himself to them, did everything, caused everything -- even what HE did not. So do YOU believe God, Yahweh, created evil? It's God who causes us to suffer so much?

Yes! If one doesn't believe Jesus is God, how could they be a Christian?? The bottom line standard is that: Jesus is God He was resurrected from the dead The Trinity (although it can't be understood) What do YOU think the bottom line is?? Could I believe Jesus was a good teacher or prophet and...

I do find the Catholic idea of sin interesting. There is Original Sin and Actual Sin. Man is born with Original Sin. It's the sin committed by Adam and Eve and has been passed down to us. There is Actual Sin. ACTual. By act or thought. Actual sin could be mortal or venial. Mortal is a grave...

Jesus didn't abolish any of the law? So you follow all 613 of the laws in Leviticus and Deuteronomy and Exodus? Good. You're more of a law keeper than I am. P.S. It's common knowledge that only the moral law remains. It's common knowledge that the sun comes up every day. This...