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DougE6:
Hi River
Jas 1:13 Let no one say when he is tempted, "I am being tempted by God," for God cannot be tempted with evil, and he himself tempts no one.
Jas 1:14 But each person is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desire.
Jas 1:15 Then desire when it has conceived gives birth to sin, and sin when it is fully grown brings forth death.
This warning is the very warning that needs to be kept in mind when the total sovereignity of God is in view. God is blameless. I am not going to get into all the ways that God steers his creation. That is unimportant COMPARED to your heart and its attitude. I will repeat...DO NOT LET THE TOTAL SOVEREIGNITY OF GOD BECOME A SECRET DOORWAY IN YOUR HEART SO YOU ALLOW YOURSELF to be less vigilant or have less hatred of evil and unrighteousness. Examine yourself to see if you are in the faith. I dont care if you know all the proper doctrines, if you do not resist evil and love righteousness and hate wickedness, then you have missed the point.
G. Driggs:
--- Quote from: River on July 26, 2011, 06:19:33 AM ---Hi,
Have you all found since learning of the false free will, how incorporated that belief is in everything around us? I think one of the greatest things I learned from this site was understanding that we do not have a free will and how the scriptures show this. I just can't get over how much I am aware of this when I hear others speak. It seems so much is connected with that false belief.
By the way hello to all on the forum. :)
River
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This is what enables them to "get God off the hook" for not saving everyone and all the evil in the world.
It will be important for them to see someday that they could not save themselves. For this reason (at least in part) God sends them a strong delusion. The belief in free will appeals to their lawless nature. That's what free will is, lawlessness.
All is of God and they (and us) will know it. Keep fighting the good fight AND be still. ;D
G.Driggs
JohnMichael:
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"The Real Origin of Sin" - Ray's Article http://bible-truths.com/lake2.html
I heard a world-famous televangelist say in his sermon that it was never God’s intention that Adam and Eve disobey His command and sin by eating of the forbidden tree. Most Christians would agree. They think God did not want Adam to sin; and Adam did not need to sin. If Adam had not sinned, we would all be living in a giant Garden of Eden to this very day. We would be in perfect health, there would be no sorrow, we would have pleasure twenty-four hours a day, we would never die, we would be happy and God too would be happy.
If Adam had shown just a little restraint the world wouldn’t be in the giant mess it is in today. Oh really? Well, why then didn’t Adam exercise restraint. What went wrong? Did the first humans malfunction? Was there a flaw in their original design. God was the Designer; is God the blame? Not according to Christendom. Is He at least responsible? Not according to Christendom. But why not?
Now listen carefully. Here is wisdom beyond its years. When a scientist creates an experiment or machine that malfunctions, is he responsible for the malfunction? Yes. Does he hold the experiment or machine responsible? No. Does he hold God responsible? No. Okay.
Now then, according to Christendom, when God creates an experiment or machine that malfunctions, is He responsible for the malfunction? No. Does He hold the experiment or machine responsible? Yes. Does He hold man responsible? Yes. See the wisdom?
I have just shown you one reason why God calls the WISDOM of this world, STUPIDITY!
"For the wisdom of this world is foolishness [Greek: stupidity] with God. For it is written, He takes the wise in their own craftiness" (I Cor. 3:19).
First, Christendom assumes that God’s creation of humans malfunctioned -- they did NOT!
Second, they assume that God is not responsible and does not take responsibility -- He DOES!
One unscriptural assumption added to another unscriptural assumption does not equal a Bible Truth!
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There were a lot of reasons why Calvary happened the way it did. :)
DougE6:
God is blameless. The word "blame" connotes sin, error, fault. God has no sin, error, fault. God is responsible, YES. He has NO blame, however, I am not parsing words there. There is a difference between blame and being responsible. Do not try to find fault with God, you won't.
JohnMichael:
--- Quote from: DougE6 on August 07, 2011, 09:22:53 AM ---
God is blameless. The word "blame" connotes sin, error, fault. God has no sin, error, fault. God is responsible, YES. He has NO blame, however, I am not parsing words there. There is a difference between blame and being responsible. Do not try to find fault with God, you won't.
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That is a connotative definition of blame. The word blame definitely has a negative connotation (emotional definition). I'm referring to the denotative (dictionary) definition. I apologize for the confusion.
Blame: to hold responsible; to place the responsibility for
EDIT: My last post is a direct quote from Ray's article on the Origin of Satan, Evil, and Sin. Those weren't my words :)
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