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Dave in Tenn:
Paul said it this way:
Rom 7:18 For I know that in me, that is in my flesh, dwells no good. For to will (the good) is present to me, but to work out the good I do not find.
Rom 7:19 For what good I desire, I do not do. But the evil I do not desire, this I do.
Rom 7:20 But if I do what I do not desire, it is no longer I working it out, but the sin dwelling in me.
Rom 7:21 I find then the law, when I desire to do the right, that evil is present with me.
Rom 7:22 For I delight in the Law of God according to the inward man;
Rom 7:23 but I see another law in my members having warred against the law of my mind, and taking me captive by the law of sin being in my members.
Rom 7:24 O wretched man that I am! Who shall deliver me from the body of this death?
Rom 7:25 I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then I myself with the mind truly serve the Law of God, and with the flesh the law of sin.
Paul wanted to do good and did not want to do evil. Paul was unable to do all the good he wanted and unable to stop all the evil.
Same is true of us. Why can't I do all the good I want?
Speaking practically, not theologically, here's a short incomplete list of reasons.
1. I DO NOT KNOW how to do good in all situations.
2. I DO NOT KNOW what IS good in all situations.
3. I am inadequate to do all the good I want to do.
4. I am often too weak to do much good at all.
Now then, how am I delivered from this "body" of ignorance and weakness? I thank God through Jesus Christ I am delivered. Perhaps He will show me what really IS good. Perhaps He will help me to know how to do good. Perhaps He will grant me increasing opportunities to do more good, once He has shown me what it is and how to do it. And until then, perhaps He will strengthen me to do what little good I can.
Just me talking, but I would rather be frustrated in my desire to 'do good' than to be a lump on a sofa. It's obvious to me that Paul could NOT KNOW what he said was true without having TRIED to do good, after all. But a failure to be HUMBLE in the face of my own ignorances and weaknesses is NOT the way to begin and NOT how the Lord of All began His ministry among us.
So then, do what you want...you will anyway. And be molded through pressure and heat into His image. That will happen too. Jesus is Lord.
loretta:
--- Quote from: JohnChris on October 12, 2013, 07:03:23 AM ---How can we be sure (as you've stated) that this is "definitely not good news for the future or the economy"? Especially if we believe that God controls all and is working all things according to His ultimate plan?
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I understand the point you are trying to make JohnChris. It is a great comfort to know that everything will be redeemed according to His ultimate plan. However, I also believe that we, the Elect of God, the saviors of the world, are being prepared for such a position by the revelation of truth(s) of God and His righteousness and we are called to resist evil.
Jam 4:1 From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?
Jam 4:2 Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.
Jam 4:3 Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.
Jam 4:4 Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.
Jam 4:5 Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?
Jam 4:6 But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.
Jam 4:7 Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
jam 4:8 Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.
onelovedread:
JfK
My free will prevents me from praying for you :(
Hope you understand brother ;D
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