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YellowStone:
--- Quote from: gmik on May 16, 2007, 05:18:41 PM ---When I see these growth charts I sometimes chuckle to think about "re incarnation". Where are all these NEW people coming from????
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I have seen some wonderful examples of reincarnation and in everyway, I cannot explain. Like the 7 year old boy who could name every piece of a WW2 fighter plane, knew where had crashed and died and the name of his "then" copilot. He knew all of this, but couldn't read the words he was saying. This kid knew things no one could know.
Reincarnation, I don't think so. I figure if God wanted me to know, he would have told me.
I just can't discount Satan.
2Cr 11:14 And no wonder, for Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light. :)
Thanks Gena,
Your brother in Christ,
Darren
seminole:
Don't know if this will make sense or not to anyone about this subject. My Grandmother was crippled at an early age and was bed-ridden for many years. She was stricken with this crippling rheumatoid arthritis when she was 32 years old. By 1960 she was completely bedfast and remained there until some surgeries were developed that helped some. When she became bedridden there were no curse words(even little 4 letter words) commonly used on t.v. or even movies. There was not the high divorce rate and so on. She was completely shocked when she became able to be taken out with us around 1978. she couldn't believe the dis-respect that children showed their parents and other adults. Her senses were assaulted by all the changes that had taken place. I tried to imagine how it would seem through her eyes. I was accustomed to the same changes that she was shocked by. I didn't even notice when someone would use, as she said, "an ugly word". Could that be why things seem so much worse now? We have become calloused to things that in an earlier day would not be tolerated.
Seminole
YellowStone:
Seminole,
I agree, I think belligerent acceptance is probably the most insidious evil of all.
Do we accept because we expect no better or because our eyes and hearts are focused on higher things?
I hope none of the above. :D Because, I do not accept a lot of things.
Very good reasoning, thanks for sharing.
Your brother in Christ,
Darren
Kat:
Hi seminole,
That was a good example about your Grandmother being shocked by the difference those years of isolation made. It really does brings out the point that we become calloused.
Your question Darren,
--- Quote ---Will God judge an evil man whom never received the spirit of truth the same as a not so evil (quantitive) man who had repeatedly been exposed to the truth and repeatedly turned away?
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An evil man will be judged and purged of wickedness according to how he has lived his life. It matters not how many times someone has heard the truth, until God opens their eyes and drags them to Christ, they can not understand. We are not responsible for our own salvation, but accountable for our actions.
Gena, you mentioned the population explosion :o
I have a very simplistic way of looking at this. The human race started out with two and the increase of people multiplying was slow at first. Well when the population started getting up pretty high the amount that it increases starts making a much bigger difference. When you have billions of people multiplying now, the increase is staggering and what's going to stop it?
I know you were joking about reincarnation, but since there was a mention of it, I found this email of Ray's.
http://www.forums.bible-truths.com/index.php/topic,3897.0.html ------
Dear Walter:
No, there is no such thing as human "reincarnation." Reincarnation is an ancient doctrine of the pagan Egyptians. God knew us from before the foundation of the world, not because we existed back then, but because we were IN HIS PLAN. God knew every person who would ever live, and when they would be born, and how long they would live, how they would live, etc., etc., etc. And He didn't plan for any to perish, but that all will come to repentance and a knowledge of the truth (if not in this life, then in Judgment).
God be with you,
Ray
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mercy, peace, and love
Kat
YellowStone:
Hi Kat, I think you missed the point I was trying to make. Perhaos I should have worded it better :)
Please let me explain in greater detail........
Your question Darren,
--- Quote ---Will God judge an evil man whom never received the spirit of truth the same as a not so evil (quantitive) man who had repeatedly been exposed to the truth and repeatedly turned away?
--- End quote ---
An evil man will be judged and purged of wickedness according to how he has lived his life. It matters not how many times someone has heard the truth, until God opens their eyes and drags them to Christ, they can not understand. We are not responsible for our own salvation, but accountable for our actions.
I believe that it is erroneous to assume that once God has opened our eyes and filled our hearts with truth that the truth will remain inside us forever. Paul speaks very strongly on what happens when the enlightened "fall-away" from the truth. Repentance is not an option.
Hebrew 6:4-6 [NIV]
4 It is impossible for those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, who have shared in the Holy Spirit, 5 who have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the powers of the coming age, 6 if they fall away, to be brought back to repentance, because [fn2] to their loss they are crucifying the Son of God all over again and subjecting him to public disgrace.
If any who has been brought to the truth should fall-away, may God have mercy on their soul, because they cannot be brought back, for doing so would nullify Christs Ransom and disgrace him. :(
Kat, I truly believe that their is a marked difference in God's eyes, between the unrighteous evildoer and that of one of God's enlightened who turned away. The unrighteous can repent, not so with the fallen child of God.
Do you now see why I asked that question? Who can really know the mind of God? But know this, we must always treat the Spirit of Truth that has been graciously given us, as our most valued possesion, bar none!
Ephesians 2:8 For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith–and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God– 9 not by works, so that no one can boast.
This is the truth as given to me,
Does this make sense Kat?
Love in Christ,
Darren
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