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I would watch out with saying that cause God still heals and there are still gifts of the Spirit to heal. Just because there are also money grabbers and weirdo's doesn't mean you can call it all bad. Jesus healed the sick. The sick got healed in Peter's shadow. The pharisees called it demonic.
Myself or a sickness demon or noone. He said we should heal the sick in His Name. So I was sick and got prayer in church, but I wasn't healed. I built my faith for a year with Bible texts and then I went to another church and got healed. I do not accept sickness. Sickness is not from God. Jesus...
https://curtiseschulz.wordpress.com/2018/06/24/calvinism-makes-atheists-of-men/
Almost every time I have heard an atheist argue against God by talking about His nature, they argue against a Calvinist understanding of God.
You don't need a snake oil show, but I would get mad if I was in pain and believed it was God's will and He gave it to me. The Heidelberg cathechism literally says that God gives sickness. I can imagine that someone gets mad. I get mad about minor pain, but I know that God always wants to heal...
He didn't get healed. I got mad too when God didn't answer my prayers to give me my kids back. Evil monster judge just gave my 3 month old baby to my ex and God did nothing. I did not understand why. I reckoned He didn't exist after all. But I was living in sin, so He couldn't help me. I only...
But you can chose to humble yourself before God and not think you know better than Him.
Jesus carried all your pain and sickness. It's not His fault. He wants to heal everyone and He wants everyone saved. Blame the church, that they didn't heal you when you were 3 and had faith enough, but I...
While being perfectly able to: really? Why don't you become God and show Him how to do it better? You just made that up. You don't know God.
That was not possible. Free will means people can sin and that causes suffering. If you want a world without suffering God could have only made pets.
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Why?
My dad always said: because I say so, so I'd say: because God says so.
Yes heathens can obey their conscience, but they can't become perfect like God without Jesus.
Romans 2
14 for when Gentiles, who do not have the law, by nature do the things in the law, these,
although not having the...
Not through just physically dying, but through dying with Christ. Our old sinful nature has to cease to exist. We can put it to death, decide to not sin. That is not possible without the cross. The O.T. saints were forgiven, but they could not get a new nature. That's why the laws were way...
The sin nature had to be removed. He created us to become like Him. Since man sinned we became half evil with satan's nature. That could only be removed by death. If someone has some life threatening sickness and a doctor can cut it out, he will. God cuts the sin nature out. But we had this...
The great thing about a child asking why is that they think you're an oracle who knows everything and whatever answer you come up with is perfectly fine. When my son was 4 or 5 he'd ask why questions all day. Why did God make satan? Why are there earthquakes. So lovely. Just any answer I gave...
He had to die. Otherwise no one could be reconciled with God and get a new nature. I think that's why He came when a lot didn't want Him and not in the time of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
There were Romans who converted and weren't arrogant, although it was a lousy time. He's still a bozo, just like Cleopatra.
'You have to see that in its time. I did that for my country.' 'Be quiet or I feed you to the crocodiles. Go away with your leftish talk!'
Faith is a gift that acts, but because it's not your own natural faith it's also not your own works. Say someone believes that God exists, demons believe that too, and doesn't want to follow Him, then he has no saving faith as a gift from God and the belief he has himself won't do a thing to get...
I used to think he was nice. What can you do about it? Run away? Give up your job out of fear? He washed his hands. He wasn't trying to save Him. Even Peter denied Him out of of fear. And when Peter wanted Him to not get killed He said: get behind Me satan. But I once saw a Jesus movie and Herod...
No it's a gift. It's something only the spirit can do. Not the flesh or soul. You can't produce it. It only comes when the Spirit works and the Gospel, the Word is preached. Paul says: how hear without a preacher? Faith comes by hearing the Word of Christ. And without God our spirit is seperated...