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To: HiTech RedNeck

Never liked the story of Job.God sounds like a smart alek,Where were you when I made the world?Who are you to question me?And replacing his children with more children?Sorry,apology not accepted.All God wanted to do was win a bet with the devil.Is that all we are in the end?Gambling chips in Gods poker game?


12 posted on 05/19/2013 12:46:48 PM PDT by Craftmore
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To: Craftmore

Well I’d frankly be glad to be the Father’s willing poker chip, because in the end it will be glorified in heaven, but God doesn’t blindly shuffle cards. He knows what’s in the deck, to extend the metaphor. You’ve read the story; you’ve seen the map of the ocean. Now will you go out there into that huge, huge entity and try to swim or sail? That’s where the worth of life is.


26 posted on 05/19/2013 12:58:26 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (How long before all this "fairness" kills everybody, even the poor it was supposed to help???)
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To: Craftmore
Never liked the story of Job.God sounds like a smart alek,Where were you when I made the world?Who are you to question me?And replacing his children with more children?Sorry,apology not accepted.All God wanted to do was win a bet with the devil.Is that all we are in the end?Gambling chips in Gods poker game?

I must warn you that your soul is in peril if you insult God.

God's offer is there for all to either accept or reject, so no one has any excuse for not accepting his son Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior. For true believers, there is eternal life, and they are adopted sons of God the father, and as such God never abandons his own, he is always with them, comforting and protecting them, even in the worst hour of peril. Jesus' perfect sacrifice was offered as atonement for all the sins of God's elect, which cleanses them of their sin and makes them fit to be in the presence of God.

For those who reject God there is eternal separation from him. Which is what they say they want, so God rewards them as they wish.

It is rather arrogant to think that the Creator of heaven and earth would not be sovereign over his creation, to do with according to his own will. For what is built, the design and workmanship are up to the builder.
27 posted on 05/19/2013 1:00:40 PM PDT by PieterCasparzen (We have to fix things ourselves)
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