I have learned to be a bit chary of claims that “God can’t possibly do thus and such” which it isn’t something the scripture solidly rules out.
We have an uneasy theological hedge in the Protestant world against problems in the modern system of Roman Catholic (and less spoken of, but equally applicable) Orthodox theology. The church as a whole let itself fall into a human-driven empiricism, like the idea that it could take a secular government or governments under its organizational wing, and that can’t be wished away by more of the same. Christ, with a plan embracing the salvation of every willing soul, is not caught flat footed, so to speak. He allows the errors and the truths to play out in a scene in which He keeps His promises.
I believe we are right to expect that anything valid we hear from the supernatural is going to be backed up by the promises of God that we now know, and is going to be in the way of carrying out these promises. Old principles will never change; new particulars can and will appear.
Hey, HiTech RedNeck, that was not good writing; it was GREAT writing. I am inspired by it. Keep up the good work!
I suspect that you are a writer, a minister, a professor — or all 3.