Would you believe it if I showed you?.....Would you believe that with Jesus you are looking straight at God's declaration?
Do you really think that Jesus hanging on a cross who clearly said he could call on ten thousand angels to rescue him if he desired but who chose to allow the darkness to be unveiled for what it really is by allowing it to kill the Prince of Life; do you really thing that is a 'mamby pamby all forgiving sop'?
My goodness, is that what you think I said....?
By that comment, I was speaking about those who think that God will forgive them any sin despite the fact that they continue in it, unrepentantly. That “all forgiving sop” does not exist.
Do you really think the criminal hanging next to Jesus had any chance of 'shaping up' .....did Jesus ship him out?
That criminal had a last minute change of heart.....but that did not mean that he was going to heaven....Jesus promised that he would be ‘with him in
paradise’, not heaven. In the resurrection (this thief was paying the wages of his own sin by dying on his own execution stake) Jesus will be “with” this man by calling him from his grave, and becoming his King in the earthly part of God’s Kingdom. (John 5:28-29) Jesus calls all the dead from their graves.
What dictator ever behaved like this?; 'The servants who are ready and waiting for his return will be rewarded. I tell you the truth, he himself will seat them, put on an apron, and serve them....' Luke 12:37
What is a dictator? Every human dictator has been a tyrant because as soon as you give a flawed human power over others, it corrupts him. But Christ proved himself incorruptible like his Father. He will be a most wonderful King but like his Father, he demands obedience and loyalty to his God.
Since this Master has a Master, the Son is a servant along with his “brothers”.....but only God is the Father who is served by them all. God has children, not brothers. He is a most benevolent dictator in that he is incorruptible, and has the best interests of all his creation at heart.
What man assumes as natural ie, domination, is not the principle mode of operation of Heaven. The principle of God was displayed in Jesus allowing himself to be killed.....yes, he would rather be killed than kill.
And yet God’s laws were not negotiable.....capital offences merited the death penalty. God’s justice is not served by sentiment. Justice demands what it demands. Only God’s mercy could change an outcome....and that had to be on merit....mitigating circumstances were the reason.
Were God’s executioners, murderers? Not if he authorised them to take a life for breaking his law.
Going the dots in the order on display in Jesus is not difficult when self honesty is prioritised.....he is the living breathing active Word of God. The scriptures bear witness to him. The question is, how do we read them? Do we superimpose our controlling, dominating, self interested inclinations onto God and thereby make a God in our image?
Are you not doing the same? Are you not fashioning God in
your own image?
He is who the scriptures tell us he is. He commanded at times that his people exact his revenge on his enemies....and sometimes that was enacted on those of his own who disobeyed him as well. You can’t make God into someone he is not.
Is God controlling? You bet he is. Free will was given as a precious gift, but it was not unconditional.
Satan used God’s command concerning the TKGE as weapon against him.....he has been doing so ever since, encouraging people to see him as a tyrannical despot. The churches have continued to portray him as a cruel torturer of souls in an eternal fiery hell! When such a place was far from his thoughts. (Jeremiah 7:31) There is no such place.
Conversely, others portray him as weak and all forgiving. He is neither of those things.
All he ever offered mankind was the option to obey him and continue living....or to disobey and forfeit the gift of life, as those undeserving of it. How is that not fair?
Yes, it is Satan's studied intent to misrepresent God as either violent and dominating or a Mamby Pamby all forgiving sop with no backbone, limper than a wet noodle.....but a God who serves rather than one who demands worship, a God who would rather be killed than kill, a God who loves his creation more than his own life.....yes, a God who the natural man could not invent, is not one wanted by the darkness.
Jesus is a “servant” of the same God that we are (Acts 3:13)....he was the one who willingly offered what God could not. An immortal God cannot die, but a mortal creature of flesh could......Jesus was “sent” by his God and Father (John 17:3) to become that mortal human...and he willingly gave his life for us because he has been at his Father’s side since creation began, and is intensely focussed on the original purpose of his God in bringing that to fruition. (Isaiah 55:11; Revelation 21:2-4)
Your God is simply not the one I know from the scripture, QT....he sounds like you.
