"The Little Mermaid" was just an excuse for starting another tirade about what's wrong with the God of the Bible, right?
I thought it was about watching the movie that has a witch in it too. I wouldn't care if I walked around in Denmark and saw it. Wouldn't use blinders or something. I do watch this mermaid:
Maybe it's the use of the word "demonic" and what that means. Just referring to "Disney" would be more to the point, perhaps.
Because He gave the authority over the earth to Adam and he gave it to satan by sinning, so now he had legal rights. He said to Jesus that it was given to him and Jesus didn't correct him. He's the god of this world. Jesus had to become a Man to get the authority back. When He died and raised He overcame Satan for us and He took the authority back, but only if the whole world would have said: 'Yay! We become christians!' satan would have no power whatsoever anymore. He has no power anyway. He can only lie and accuse God and christians and people can give him power by obeying him. He can use people to start wars and kill. Jesus went to heaven and gave the authority to the church and now the church must do what He did and the apostles. 1 Timothy pray for everyone, because God wants everyone saved. The guy who was sick at Bethesda, why did he have to wait 30 years? Because Jesus had to become Man and grow up and start His ministry. In the O.T. God could not just whoop from heaven heal people without a prophet. And now the church must do His works and even bigger ones
I backslid for a while and all of a sudden I could watch murder programs on tv without being bothered. Before I got saved it didn't bother me either. I don't think that's such a great sign that he leaves you alone and even if he leaves someone like that alone, it's because he already has them. But suffering from demons does not come from God and you can learn how to overcome them and help others.
Well, it's apparent that he doesn't understand the Biblical concept of God that the Christian churches are built upon, and there's not much likelihood of having any explanation be accepted.
Yes. Satan and demons had no power over Jesus. Satan only over the ones who were his slaves, because they sinned (before the cross even the saints except Elijah and Enoch couldn't go straight to heaven) and demons only in certain cases. Jesus didn't sin. Satan gets called the god of this world. If God could just do here whatever He wanted, He would not say that we had to pray Your Kingdom come and for everyone to get saved, that would just happen, because He wants it and pray for healing and give authority to the church to do His works as His body on earth.
God is omnipotent, however. The reason he doesn't make everything perfect right now is, as you noted yourself, because humans have free will and are capable of doing evil and rejecting righteousness.
Not necessarily. Praying that something which is due to occur will take place sooner rather than later doesn't say that it can't happen unless....
Omnipotent does not mean that He can create a stone He cannot carry. He keeps Himself to His own laws and He cannot or doesnt want to go against His own character. It was a joke from some preacher: God can't do everything. He cannot sin. If you want God to work on earth you have to invite Him. God wants everyone saved. Why does He say pray for all people and preach the Gospel when He can just poof do what He wants and get everyone saved and healed? It's a coincident that Wales got saved when they prayed 24/7? He said to Israel that He would heal their land if they prayed. He has to be invited by people to do something.
But that's only a trick with words, not a real undertaking.
So, what are we dealing with here in which God is asked to be evil?
Where in Scripture or elsewhere does THAT notion come from?? God seems to have acted on his own many times, according to the Bible. The Great Flood. Sodom and Gomorrah. And so on.
That, however--receiving Christ and being saved by Faith in him--is not what you have been talking about here. You've said nothing can be done by God unless someone invites him.
First, we'll have to know how many times you did pray for the sun to rise in the morning!
Oh no wait. He can't just go save and heal people if He wants to, because the Bible says He wants to, so then He would. He can decide to call it quits today. No wait He can't, cause He keeps His Word, but He does have that power. I bet He could force everyone to serve Him, but He doesn't want that. He always uses people to get others saved and healed. He just has to wait now for the harvest, because people have free will. It's not that He has no power, but He does let them kill christians, so they can get saved. He could say: boom dead, leave that christian alone, but then He would have to kill almost everyone to stop the suffering, because almost everyone is nasty to someone else, which makes em suffer and then you'd have even more suffering.
No He is God and we have to obey Him. We're just His body on earth and we're not supposed to live anymore, but Christ in us.
First, we'll have to know how many times you did pray for the sun to rise in the morning!