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ez2u:
this Movie   WAS NOT the Truth  believe me  it was set up to make you think a certain way  just like a lot of programing going on today  don't believe it

Dave in Tenn:

--- Quote from: lauriellen on June 01, 2012, 02:04:40 PM ---thanks all for your comments. I do think it was easier to think that the devil was responsible for all the evil in the world...lol. I do get, with my head, that God is working out a purpose with all this evil, but with my heart, a mothers' heart, i would give my life to spare my children pain & suffering, .... i do get that sometimes children do need to learn the hard way, but i have never been good at tuff love...lol.
Yes, such a hearbreaking scene to see the man loose his faith in God, because i do know what that hurt feels like.
i do believe that it will work to the good, and someday we will think what we suffered in this life isn't even comparable to the goodness God will give us, but i don't think i will ever feel that way in this life....my heart is too hurt....;)....but then again, God is in control and does what He wants to amoung all men. =)
have a great weekend everyone.
lauri

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Lauri, been thinking about this and, whether this adresses your thinking directly or not, felt compelled to answer.

You said earlier that it was easier to believe that Satan was responsible for all the evil of the world.  I think I understand you, but I don't believe that we should think that he is not accountable for any evil at all.  He is a liar and sinner from the beginning and is the greatest of the evils that God produced to fulfill His will.  That cannot mean we have to always wallow in or be 'patient' with the lies and destruction that he subjects us to, even though they are, for a season, the will of God.  Each of us have already (to one degree or another) been delivered from satan's grasp.  We wouldn't know or believe any Truth if we had not been.  That's what a Savior does.  I should hope we keep on being saved!  That has to be my faith, or else Jesus really ISN'T the savior of the world.

I can't supply you with a 'formula', but our 'former state' as children of the devil is not the state we find ourselves (to one degree or another depending on how God has already worked in us) in now.  There are (and have been) things to overcome, flee from, not become entangled in, be delivered from etc.  The power of Satan and his lies are certainly a major part of that, and we've already experienced some of that by the grace of God and His faith which he's given us.  The Savior is not done with us yet.

End of sermon, welcome or not.  As I said, if it doesn't have anything to do with your thinking, never mind.  Still worth saying, I hope.  Back to my cave for bit.   :)

   

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