Posted on 02/08/2018 12:27:20 PM PST by metmom
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If you have never stood before God and felt afraid, then probably you have never stood before God. You have stood before an idol of your own making. Worse, your life will remain silly and superficial because you worship a silly and superficial god.
What is fear. Two examples. While in the air your plane drops 5,000 feet. While driving down the road, a car pulls out in front of you.
What is the essence of fear?
1) your life is on the balance
2) you are not in control of the situation.
That is meeting God. Having met God, you do not live in fear but it is good to visit it once in a while..............
Don’t try to figure what God is like or you may end up deeply depressed if you can’t find the answer. If I knew the answer I would gladly inform my FRiends.
What is God Like?
Well for starters.....you don’t want to get on his bad side.
He is gracious, wise and loving, but with a righteous anger he can shown on occasion.
President Trump exhibits many similar qualities tomhow God is described biblically. Of course, Trump isn’t a perfect match (no man can ever measure trulumuo to Him)but he’s as close as we’ve known in centuries
“If something we think about God violates what we know of Jesus, what he taught, and how he acted, then that thought lies.”
That would only be true if we knew everything there is to know about Jesus, which is not humanly possible. Not only that, everything we know about Jesus would have to be correct, and there are a lot of people who believe things that aren’t true.
“God isn’t angry.”
After 60 million murdered babies, I wonder.
I fully expect to be asked why I didn’t do more.
Either he has a great sense of humor or I am having a really good run of bad luck.
Like nothing else.
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Everything has a beginning and eventually an end. So what or Who created God? I still can't wrap my mind around the answer that He always was and all you have to do is believe..........
Your thoughts parallel mine. I have no problem believing that He always existed, but I often question the teaching that He has a personal interest in me. I have not experienced it and I cannot force myself to believe it.
If God wanted to spread a belief in Him, why did he create only one son, Jesus, and plant Him in Israel?
Why didn't God send multiple sons to all the nations of the world to spread His word? His lack of action in the above just doesn't make sense ............
Adam’s descendants knew of the One True God, and His commandments. The desire to violate God’s commandments led to paganism.
God started over with Noah, and the Seven Laws of the Children of Noah. The desire to be free of God’s commandments led again to paganism.
Individuals taking it upon themselves to proclaim God and His laws wasn’t working, so God chose Abraham and his descendants to transmit the message as a family heritage.
Since the scattering of the Jews to all corners of the earth, even pagans like Hindus acknowledge one overarching Higher Power.
http://www.chabad.org/kabbalah/article_cdo/aid/380332/jewish/The-Mitzvot-of-Non-Jews.htm
God has revealed Himself to us through the Scriptures and through His creation.
God reveals Himself through the gospel penned by John.
16“For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life.
17“For God did not send the Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world might be saved through Him.
18“He who believes in Him is not judged; he who does not believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
19“This is the judgment, that the Light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the Light, for their deeds were evil.
20“For everyone who does evil hates the Light, and does not come to the Light for fear that his deeds will be exposed.
John 3:16-20 NASB
God does care for us and does love us. NOTE: This passage of Scripture applies to those who believe in Christ as Savior.
31What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who is against us? 32He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him over for us all, how will He not also with Him freely give us all things? 33Who will bring a charge against God’s elect? God is the one who justifies; 34who is the one who condemns? Christ Jesus is He who died, yes, rather who was raised, who is at the right hand of God, who also intercedes for us. 35Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? 36Just as it is written, “FOR YOUR SAKE WE ARE BEING PUT TO DEATH ALL DAY LONG; WE WERE CONSIDERED AS SHEEP TO BE SLAUGHTERED.” 37But in all these things we overwhelmingly conquer through Him who loved us. 38For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, 39nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. Romans 8:31-39 NASB
OK. You’re on.
Well, God created time and we are placed in it so it is well nigh impossible for us to consider no time, no beginning or no end, any more than we can conceive or what is outside the universe.
Or the Trinity and how that works.
Finite and mortal cannot comprehend the infinite and immortal.
So, yeah, then it just gets down to faith. But fortunately, God does not require us to understand Him. He just wants us to trust Him, which is what we do when we don't understand.
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