The Iran situation

[Big Boy Johnson]

God had the power to stop it and didn't.

No, actually He did not.

God sovereignly gave man free will and because of that He allows man to make his own decisions. It' known as sowing and reaping.
God is not mocked, whatsoever we sow is what we reap (Gal 6:7,8)

They got themselves in that mess which would not have happened if they had been walking with the Lord as they should.
Read through the old testament and you'll see they got themselves in a lot of messes.

You say I'm blaming the victims saying they are at fault and are the ones doing wrong.
You are blaming God saying He is at fault and He is the one doing wrong by not saving them!

Think about that! It's not even possible for the Lord to do anything wrong!

So when things go bad, it's NOT His fault they went bad. When man is disobedient, man is causing his own trouble, not God.

 

[Riven]

No, actually He did not.

God has infinite power. He saved Moses and his people from destruction at the hands of the Egyptians, by parting the Red Sea. How can you read this account and then say God cannot interfere in the lives of mortals?

Think about that! It's not even possible for the Lord to do anything wrong!

So when things go bad, it's NOT His fault they went bad. When man is disobedient, man is causing his own trouble, not God.

Then why did God regret that he ever created man in the first place? Furthermore, why would a perfect and divine being that already knows the future, feel an emotion like regret?

 

[Matthias]

The fact of the matter is, God had the power to stop it and didn't.

Deep down, you know that God exists. You wouldn’t present this as a fact if you didn’t.

 

[Big Boy Johnson]

God has infinite power. He saved Moses and his people from destruction at the hands of the Egyptians, by parting the Red Sea. How can you read this account and then say God cannot interfere in the lives of mortals?

He can IF people exercise their free will and choose to quit following the devil and start following the Lord.

God is not mocked, we reap what we sow. (Gal 6:7,8)

The devil came to steal, kill, and destroy (John 10:10) so those following the devil get the devil's reward not God's deliverance.

Then why did God regret that he ever created man in the first place? Furthermore, why would a perfect and divine being that already knows the future, feel an emotion like regret?

God created man in His own image giving man autonomy to make his own choices.

The problem is with man, not with God.

The more you stand in accusation of God being the one doing wrong, committing error, the more division you are creating between yourself and God.

This is exactly how some people get turned over to a reprobate mind where God turns them over to their evil thoughts against Him and refuses to help them as their hearts and minds become permanently darkened.

Jeremiah 6:30
Reprobate silver shall men call them, because the LORD hath rejected them.

2 Timothy 3:8
Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith.

Romans 1:28
And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;

Titus 1:16
They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate.

 

[ProDeo]

Then why did God regret that he ever created man in the first place? Furthermore, why would a perfect and divine being that already knows the future, feel an emotion like regret?

When God created mankind he gave them free will to make a choice, either answer His love for us in return or reject His love. Of course God knew in advance that free will comes with a price as it happened in the Garden when Adam and Eve were seduced by the devil and fell from grace. God knew that before He created mankind, that evil sooner or later would rear its ugly head because of the free will He equipped us with. And God BEFORE He created us He already had His master plan to deal with sin. We read in the book of Revelation about Jesus --- the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world --- Jesus was God's master plan BEFORE He created us.

. Through Jesus love for us and His death on the cross we find forgiveness for our sins.
. Thanks to Jesus we receive eternal life if we answer to His love call.

As for this life, we are here to learn and make a choice, Adam & Eve (against God's express will) insisted to know the difference between good and evil and curious enough God gave Adam & Eve exactly what they wanted, He removed them from Paradise to the hostile earth as we know it, where death rules as a necessity, where there is good and loads of evil to experience, just read your daily paper or study history, the evil things mankind is able to do seems to have no limits, it can always be worse, just as you think you have seen everything then something else beats the horror mankind is able to.

And so it was in the days of Genesis 6, the picture you posted, even worse.

About your picture, God created us (as only living creature on earth) in His image. Without trying to be complete (emphasis added) it means :

. Like Him we are rational and emotional beings.
. Like Him we are spiritual beings, able to understand Him.
. Like Him we are moral beings, we are perfectly able to distinguish between good and evil, we are the only creature on earth created with a conscience.

In the Bible we on multiple places read about His emotions, love, anger, joy, sadness, sarcasm, occasionally even humor. And why not? It's the kind of communication we understand.

Following your profile (agnostic) you sound like an ex Christian, I hope you will find your way back. In the words of Jesus Himself in Luke 15:11-32, God the Father is waiting for you with His arms spread wide open.

 

[Riven]

I love it when Trump unloads on CNN.

 

[Big Boy Johnson]

I love it when Trump unloads on CNN

Did he use their bathroom for his morning constitutional?

 

[Reggie Belafonte]

I love it when Trump unloads on CNN.

I Love Trump ! He says it as it truly is ! a real man.

Not typicaly as some good for nothing poofter idiot fool that we have been forced fed to see dribbling fruitloop on TV for how many years now !
We see that TV Puffs such jerks who know nothing, out to be idols in fact ! Obama and Biden were in fact total outright jerks in fact !
It TV Madia used the same Satanic tactics on them two, they would not of last more that a few months in fact ! They were underming the USA. not to mention so was that moronic clown Bush !

 

[Triumph1300]

I Love Trump ! He says it as it truly is ! a real man.

Yup, a real man, a liar, a convicted criminal, rapist and porno star friend.

 

[Big Boy Johnson]

I Love Trump

I didn't know you swung that way
Ya'll should get a room.

Sure Trump's policies are better than liberal policies but in the end he's not really changing that much as the world is still growing darker by the minute and the US debt clock is ticking away with Trump adding to the deficit thru more spending like all administrations do. It's not like much is changing really.

I supposed a few good policies may buy some time before the inevitable which is the man of sin coming with his one world government.

If that happens during Trump's term, he'll be licking the guy's boots wanting "make a deal" of some kind.

At least he stands up for Israel so that's a good thing.

Yup, a real man, a liar, a convicted criminal, rapist and porno star friend.

And STILL head and shoulders above all the liberals who seek to turn the US in to a communist state.

Any proof he's a rapist there bud?

I don't recall Trump being convicted of rape and spending time in prison.

Of course those suffering from TDS wouldn't lie about Trumpp now would they???

 

[Riven]

Yup, a real man, a liar, a convicted criminal, rapist and porno star friend.

 

[Big Boy Johnson]

@Triumph1300 is just upset that his democrats are in such disarray and he knows it's going to be a long time before the liberals have another POTUS

His feelings are really hurt so we shouldn't give him too hard of a time

 

[ProDeo]

@Triumph1300 is just upset that his democrats are in such disarray and he knows it's going to be a long time before the liberals have another POTUS

His feelings are really hurt so we shouldn't give him too hard of a time

You have the wrong idea about him.