Brilliant.
Ray
ray ... all you have to say is that YES, God made man TO fall by / in / through man's FREE WILL given to him at his creation - by his Creator : so that God could offer man freely the CHOICE of LIFE or DEATH throug Jesus :
that YES ! God knew that once man was given CHOICE between good and evil ... the world would go to hell in a handbasket and heartbeat : ( so to speak)
and GOD knew this : that free will and Choice cause as much chaos as peace : as much sin and good !
but the chaos and the sin must ensue in order for PEACE and good to survive too !
because without free will to make CHOICES - man is just a GOOD robot :
hence for the love of mankind : God did the ultimate sacrifice : he gave man the free will to make their own choices - bad and GOOD : PEACE or chaos -
so that he would have some sons and daughters :
for it is not his will that ANY should perish : but he knew that many and most ... would.
SEE How easy and clear ?
and what about tithing ?
sure it's a sham - and I didn't even read what I KNOW to be the long winded version of your paper on tithing :
but Jesus makes it clear in Mathew 23 : 23 - " ye pay tithes of mint, anise, and cumin ... ( food tithes) not MONEY !
Dueteronomy 26 : 12 - says ' that you tithe on your increase every third year : giving tithes unto the levites, homeless widows etc - so that they may EAT : again NOT MONEY - but food !
AMOS 4 : 4 says ' sacrifices every morning : tithes every three years ( not mentioning MONEY again ) - so it must be 'food'
and when you look up TITHE TITHES and TITHING in STRONGS CONCORDENCE ... they all read the same thing : cattle, and food ( which is food period ! )
tithing was never about money : at least in the Bible : man made it about money as money began to overtake food in the latter years
and the only reason I went to the web site was because my nephew asked me to check it out : but I never past the page where man malfunctioned :
to much words and talking to say things that are so simple ! It gets boring ! sorry -
Jesus - just got to the point ! you make some good ones ... just awful awful SLOW.
JHAM