David Miller wrote:
Terry
wrote:
2. God is God. He can make exceptions to His
rules any time He wants to,
I have trouble seeing it this way. It seems to me that God is not
capricious. Capriciousness is the way of the false Roman and Greek
gods, not the Hebrew God.
TC: No one said that this was God's pattern of behavior.Â
Capricious was your term, not mine.Â
One glaring example is Jesus dying on the cross. Why would he send his
own Son to die? If he could make exceptions to his rules anytime he
wanted, he could have just made an exception.
Because that was the plan.
Terry wrote:
... and none of us are qualified to question
that.
True enough, but we are qualified to understand it, and that is what I
seek to do. I seek to understand his mercy and his justice and
judgment. Don't we all?
Terry wrote:
None of us can question how right God was,
and none of us can demand an explanation for what we might perceive to
be a bending of the rules in this case.
The Scriptures were written for our learning. We can come to
understand God's nature by looking at those things that anger him and
those things that please him. For example, we understand that Abraham
pleased God because of his faith. We also understand that God is a God
of covenants. Relationship is important to him. So far, so good
You
might perceive a bending of the rules here and consider that you have
no right to question it, Yes, that is what I perceive in this
particular case. Abraham lied, and he profited from his
lie.
but
I perceive a God who does not bend rules and who did not bend rules in
this case. One thing I am certain about, and that is that God is not a
God who judges partially towards one person or another. What a man
sows is what he reaps. If we come to an understanding that God has
bent the rules for someone, that is a warning flag to me that there are
some false assumptions being held.Â
Your warning flag may be malfunctioning.
Peace be with you.
David Miller.
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know how you ought to answer every man."Â (Colossians 4:6)
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