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lostANDfound:
Dave, are you saying that it's wrong to decide ahead of time what a right or wrong action would be in a given situation?
Dave in Tenn:
--- Quote from: lostANDfound on October 22, 2016, 02:14:02 AM ---Dave, are you saying that it's wrong to decide ahead of time what a right or wrong action would be in a given situation?
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Not really. I'm more saying it is pointless, ultimately. At least it has never worked for me.
octoberose:
If you believe in a big mushy " let's all get along" , awe shucks that's okay kind of God , you go ahead and never make a stand for rightouness. God takes sin, yours and mine, seriously. A price had to be paid- a death, Christ's death. We are either part of the darkness or we are Light. There is no in between . We all fall, we all fail, but premeditated failure ? I really try not to do that.
lilitalienboi16:
God doesnt pre ordaine rapists, murders, homosexuals--he doesn't preordain sinners. He creates man weak, subjects him to vanity (moral futility) and creates a tempter and the rest is history. We are all created with weak hearts in different ways but no pre determining is necessary as man volunteers under these conditions. So we are held accountable for our actions. However God does pre ordaine and predestin our good works by the very reason of these conditions. Man must be made by God directly to do righteousness. And so God takes full responsibility for our actions. Its part of the process of becoming holy and rigtheouss as He. Its why all the glory goes to Him. All the goodness comes from the Father in whom there is no turning of shadows, including our obedience to Him.
lostANDfound:
I have a lot of preconceived determinations which I hope God will use to steady and bolster me in my hour of greatest temptation, when excuses fly at me from all directions. Dave, I think you are lying to yourself right now. Is it right to watch porn if someone put it on for entertainment when you were visiting? This is simple. It's a preconceived decision that you aren't likely to have to exercise. So what? You'll watch the porn or you won't, you will sin or you won't, but I really hope you have an idea now, sitting on your computer at home, that one would be right and one would be wrong. And that wisdom would be useful to cling to if you found yourself in such a situation.
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