Hidden In Him
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Time moves on by... but soon enough I guess for me time will be no more. Give God the glory!
I envy you.
But then, you are finishing your course. I still have a long ways to go to finish mine.
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Time moves on by... but soon enough I guess for me time will be no more. Give God the glory!
LOL How long is a 'long ways'?I envy you.
But then, you are finishing your course. I still have a long ways to go to finish mine.
LOL How long is a 'long ways'?
"Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof" Matt 6:34.
Why does God allow evil? Is that even true?
OK. I'll let you off with a warning.Stumpmaster, my initial post was not even directed at you. I was asking Amazed@grace what her comment meant, because she unfortunately teaches a number of things that smack of Gnosticism, including that the Old Testament God deliberately chose many for eternal damnation before the world began, that Eve wasn't properly informed not to eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil and therefore God Himself may have been at fault, and that "God" is both Male and Female, among other things. Under these circumstances, her statement that evil being allowed by God "is all part of his divine plan. His will on earth as it is in heaven" may have meant she was teaching yet another occult concept called Yin and Yang, which teaches that good and evil are eternally locked in opposition to one another. So I was asking her for clarity.
You came along and defended the Principle that conflict runs throughout the Bible, which is of course a given but was unfortunately irrelevant to what I was asking her. So I tried clarifying the issue by reminding you that in Biblical Christianity the conflict between good and evil is not going to last forever, which is the distinction between Christian and Eastern thought.
Can we please understand this conversation was never directed at you to begin with? I was posting to SOMEONE ELSE.
OK. I'll let you off with a warning.
Evil grows due to the Stain of original Sin.It is true and it is a mystery. The "Mystery of Iniquity". There is really no good answer for this, since God could have wiped out the original evildoers at the very beginning. But then He allowed evil to grow until He wiped out the world with the Flood. And again God is allowing evil to grow until He pours out His wrath on the wicked and the ungodly. We are currently in an unprecedented state of evil worldwide.
I love this verse!I tell you, in just the same way there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous people who have no need of repentance.
Peace be with you!
Christ is risen!
Alleluia!