We really CAN'T answer some of these

[aspen]

1. Didn't God Hate the Unborn Infant Esau?

No. God loved Esau. Certain events in Esau’s life were described by narrators as “God hated Esau” because it was a great way to describe the consequences of his actions.

2. Could Pharaoh Have Repented?

No. Pharaoh’s hard heart was a description of his behavior towards the Israelites in hindsight. I have no doubt that God was involved in every aspect of the story, but humans used their words and perspective to describe what happened.

3. Does God's Absolute Predestination Make Him Unfair?

No. His entire creation was predestined for Heaven before the Fall. We opted out of the plan. Now, Jesus has invited us back into Heaven.

4. If We Can't Work Our Way INTO Salvation, How Can We Work Our Way OUT?

Refuse to engage in our relationship with Christ. Call it work or a lack of faith or whatever - it is the road to Hell.

5. How Can God GUARANTEE Good for His People Without PREDESTINATING Good?

No Guarantees. Relationships take the participation of two or more people.

6. How Can We Escape the Love of God?

Personally, I do not believe we can. He will love us in Hell. We will just refuse to see it.

7. If We Can "Fall From Grace," Isn't Christ's Intercession Ineffective?

God is not going to lose.

8. Are We LESS Than Conquerors?

Until we are transformed, yes.

9. Doesn't God Make "Vessels Fitted for Destruction"?

No

10. When Did God Decide to Give Us Eternal Life?

In the Garden

11. Isn't Our Heavenly Inheritance Fully Guaranteed?

No. We will be transformed, but God is not bound to a guarantee.

12. Aren't Our Good Works Predestined?

Everything that we do has happened and not happened at the same time. We are potential and echo.

13. Didn't Jesus Deliberately Hide His Message so People Wouldn't Repent?

No. His message is loud and clear, “love God, love neighbor; be perfect as I am perfect”. We were created to love perfectly and we lost our way. Now, He is leading us home.

14. Could Judas Have Refused to Betray Jesus?

No. Because he didn’t. By the time it happened his story was told.

15. Don't Evil Men Also Glorify God?

Yes. But not necessarily with their evil deed. Everyone plays a part in glorifying God.

16. Can Satan Repent and be Saved?

No. Like Judas, his time is over. He is already a memory.

17. Aren't Men Ordained in Advance to Eternal Life?

We all are.

18. Doesn't God Compel Men to Believe in Jesus?

I believe He has compelled me.

19. Didn't God Choose Us Long Before We Accepted Him?

Yes

20. How Can an Unregenerate Man Accept Christ?

God’s Grace

21. Could the Authorities Have Acted Righteously and Released Jesus?

No. They were a memory before they acted. Their story was already told.

22. Isn't God's Grace Irresistible?

Yes

23. Isn't the Will of God Absolutely Sovereign?

Yes

24. Isn't Faith in Christ the Gift of God?

Yes

25. Did Christ Die for All Men?

Yes

26. Isn't it Immoral for People to Have Sex with Animals?

Random. Yes.

27. How Can We Love God But Ignore God's Law?

We cannot love God and not love God and neighbor at the same time.

28. Is Profession of Faith Enough, or Do Our Acts Also Count?

Action is faith/works, which is love. Without practice love we cannot become perfect lovers like Christ.

29. If Men Won't Obey God's Law, Are They Saved?

They are predestined to be saved. They can chose to opt out. By refusing to practice love and receive God’s love, they are destined for Hell.

30. Are We "Once Saved, Always Saved"?

No

 

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31. How Can We Accurately Define Sin if We Deny God's Law?

People living together know what love is and they know was lesser love (sin) is. Our ability to see lesser love in others reflects our own lesser love. The Bible tells us that nature reveals God to us and I believe our ability to create the laws necessary to live tribally are from God and reveal God.

32. Does God Answer Prayers of Lawbreakers?

Yes. We are all lawbreakers

33. Do We Really Love the Brethren if We Disobey God's Laws?

No. God’s Law is to love our brethren

34. How Can We Identify Christians if We Ignore God's Law?

Lost people identify Christians when they experience our love for them

35. How Can We Know if We are "Dead to Sin" if We Ignore God's Law?

If love is not within us or remains selfish we remain imperfect.

36. How Can We "Walk in Newness of Life" if We Disobey God's Law?

We can’t love perfectly if we do not practice love.

37. How Can We Stop "Serving Sin" if We Disobey God's Law?

We can’t love perfectly if we do not practice love

38. Since God's Law Can't Kill Us, Won't it Help Us to Live?

Loving perfectly is eternal life. Perfection never changes.

39. How Can Sin Still "Reign" in Us if We Obey God's Law?

We slip into selfish love from time to time. If we only serve ourselves, we need to repent and practice loving others.

40. Aren't Those Who Disobey God's Law "Instruments of Unrighteousness"?

We are all instruments, whether we play on key or not.

41. What Does "Under Grace, Not Law" Mean?

Well, the law was created by God’s Grace so the question is meaningless if you do not look deeply. I believe the question is trying get at the issue of salvation, which seems to be the obsession of the Conservative Protestant Fire Brigade. We are now under God’s Grace due to Christ’s sacrifice rather than under the law which was impossible for us to follow.

42. Are We Free to Ignore God's Law if We are "Under Grace"?

We must practice love (God’s Law) to perfect love and remain in a love relationship with Christ.

43. Is a Christian's "New Spirit" Opposed to God's Law?

Christ fulfilled the law, He did not abolish it.

44. Is the Law of God "Carnal," or Holy, Just, and Good?

Holy, Just, and Good.

45. How Can We "Walk After the Spirit" if We Disobey God's Law?

Walk after the Spirit is Christianese. We can’t love perfectly without practicing love.

46. Isn't a "Carnal Mind" One Which is Opposed to God's Law?

A carnal mind lives according to the will of the senses.

47. How Can We "Mortify the Flesh" if We Disobey God's Law?

Why would you want to mortify the flesh if you didn’t practice love?

48. Didn't Paul Believe that the Specifics of God's Law Still Apply?

Paul preached love before doctrinal correctness - if you are invited to eat meat offered to other gods - go with the flow. Circumcised? No? No problem! He sure would be a breath of fresh air in our churches today.

49. How Can We Separate the "Moral Law" from God's Laws?

Take out theism.

50. Doesn't Faith in Christ Establish God's Law?

I think it applied God’s Law - transformed it from ritual to practice.

51. Aren't Those Who Obey God's Law the "Salt of the Earth"?

Yes

52. Isn't a "City on a Hill" to be an Example for the World?

Yes

53. Should We Limit the Areas to be Illuminated by Our "Light"?

No. We should practice love in all places and at all times.

54. How Can Christians be Resurrected Before the Millennium?

If God decides to do it.

55. Doesn't God's Kingdom Grow Slowly Until it Fills the Earth?

If we choose to love.

56. Doesn't "Leaven" Mean Victory?

What’s victory?

57. Didn't Christ’s Kingdom Begin Before the Crucifixion?

Yes

58. Wasn't Satan Cast Out of Heaven During Jesus' Earthly Ministry?

No

59. Isn't Faith Progressively Productive Until Christians Win?

Faith is the reason we practice love with Christ.

60. How Can Satan Rule the World if Power Comes from Righteousness?

He has been given permission by God to rule for a time.

61. Aren't Christians Supposed to Crush Satan?

Mary (example of transformed humanity) has crushed the serpent under her heel.

62. What Can Possibly Interrupt Christ's Dominion?

Nothing

63. Isn't Christ's Kingdom in this World?

Christ’s Kingdom is within

64. Doesn't the New Testament Teach that Christians are Powerful?

We are weak and He is strong

65. Aren't Christians Supposed to Execute Judgment?

Nope.

66. Why Shouldn't Christians Become Civil Rulers and Enforce God's Law?

If they want to start a theocracy somewhere they could.

67. Doesn't the Bible Require an Appeals Court?

Nope

68. Won't the Resurrection Take Place After the Millennium?

If God wants it to.

69. Won't Men Live Longer as God's Kingdom Progresses?

No idea.

70. Doesn't Christ's Kingdom Expand Over Time?

Yes

71. Doesn't God Want His "Heirs" to Inherit Everything?

No

72. Didn't The Prophets Foresee the Church Age?

No

73. Didn't David Foresee the Church Age?

No

74. Didn't Moses Foresee the Church Age?

No

75. Aren't There Two Kinds of Salvation?

No

 

[bbyrd009]

ha, the tree puts out tasty fruit, huh

 

[Johann]

75 Questions Your Instructors Pray You will Never Ask

75 Bible Questions Your Instructors Pray You Won't Ask, by Gary North | The Online Books Page

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