I've been reading heaps more of God's word, I have to admit my motivation was more in competition to some teenage girls who were reading more than I was - I was very embarrassed! I've been trying to read at least 5 chapters a night and it's been awesome - God's word really brings life!!
My devotional reading the other night was great too - I'll share some of it with you;
"Many people who are called miss the call because they are dull of hearing. There is something in the call, 'Many are called, but few are chosen' (Matt 22:14) And how will the choice be made? The choice is always your choice first. You will find that the gifts are your choice first. You will find that salvation is your choice. God has made it all, but you have to choose. God wants you to make an inward call, to be in a great intercessory condition of imploring the Holy One to prepare you for that wonderful spiritual body."
"If you want to grow in grace and in the knowledge of the grace and in the grace of God, get hungry enough to be fed; get thirsty enough to cry out; be broken enough that you do not want anything in the world unless He comes Himself"
I'm heading upto Brisbane for the weekend for the Unlimited Conference if anyone is up that way, will be a great weekend. I'm meeting up with most of my team I went to Rwanda with there. I've finally finished editing the DVD set of our documentary from Rwanda also, if anyone is interested in watching it, feel free to contact me - it's turned out really well actually.
Pray for next years college session world wide - the Ambassadors of Holiness! Don't forget to pray for the General, Officers and present Cadets also!!
"And they were all amazed at the greatness of God."
Luke 9:43
13 comments:
You only have to look beyond your self-absorbed focus, to see that God is not good.
How much evil and sickness does God refuse to address before you realise either
a) He doesn't exist, or
b) He is an evil monster
Do you have a youtube preview of the doco for us?
David, i had to comment on your comment, lol sounds weird hey. God is not a monster let alone evil... full stop. Satan is the prince of this Earth, people give in to temptation (sin), thus they bring evil into this world, just like Adam and Eve did when they disobeyed God. God gave men free will, to beleieve in God or not. So thereofore man can do evil, that is on their OWN free will. Its the fall of man to blame this on, not God.
I see you have left many comments arguing against what people have written, have you had a bad experience with or about God? Take care
Sean, do you really believe that fundamentalist style of Christianity?
I don't think you have been reading your Bible, Sean. Look up some Old Testament passages where God condones evil, mass slaughter, rape and pillage. Look at the legal code of the Torah.
Here's a research assignment for you, Sean. Find all the passages in the Bible where God is the originator of evil.
Look, liberal theology is where it's at these days. Get with it.
David - this has to stop - This blog was on the good things God is doing - I'm sick of you attacking everything you can on blogs.
[OT - God was setting everything up for the good of His people - are you with Him or against Him - are you wanting good or evil? You don't seem to really understand all these things you point out. (Where does God permit rape????)]
If this continues, I will not hesitate to delete all your negative or hateful comments. Lighten up!! Let go of all your hate, it's only hurting yourself.
Liberal theology.... ok!
God's very goodness means that he must destroy evil.
PS. I read my Bible thankyou very much
Ezekiel 22:30-31
"I looked for someone to stand up for me against all this, to repair the defenses of the city, to take a stand for me and stand in the gap to protect this land so I wouldn't have to destroy it. I couldn't find anyone. Not one. So I'll empty out my wrath on them, burn them to a crisp with my hot anger, serve them with the consequences of all they've done. Decree of God, the Master."
Justice demands Judgement.
Love wants forgiveness.
God chose to work through humans.
Genesis 1:26-28
God spoke: "Let us make human beings in our image, make them reflecting our nature. So they can be responsible for the fish in the sea, the birds in the air, the cattle, And, yes, Earth itself, and every animal that moves on the face of Earth." God created human beings; he created them godlike, Reflecting God's nature. He created them male and female. God blessed them: "Prosper! Reproduce! Fill Earth! Take charge! Be responsible for fish in the sea and birds in the air, for every living thing that moves on the face of Earth."
So complete and final his gift of authority to man, we could give that authority away.
If earth were to have stayed a paradise – it would be because of man.
If earth were to get messed up – it would be because of man.
If the serpent gained control – it would be because of man.
Any bad in the world is because WE took God out of the equation. Any good comes from HUMANITY bringing him back in.
After all Jesus was a human and HE conquered sin and death.
'We believe that in the person of Jesus Christ the Divine and human natures are united, so that He is truly and properly God and truly and properly man.' Salvationist Doctine No. 4
1. If God is all-powerful, why did He to embark on a process to "conquer" sin and death? It seems superfluous.
2. Simon does not appear to be able to answer the question as to why God ignores suffering, say that of children with a terminal illness.
Example, would it not a form of moral evil if I had the capacity to save my children from a house fire but did not act? Do we apply a more permissive standard to God?
3. How do people here respond to the the so called "Euthyphro dilemma" - see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euthyphro_dilemma
To quote:
"Is what is moral commanded by God because it is moral, or is it moral because it is commanded by God?"
I have noted your apparent inability to answer other questions, how about you have a go at these, Simon?
Are we going around in circles?! Many of these have been covered before!
1. Because He could an we needed it, cos we couldn't.
2. Would you heal eveyone of terminal ilnesses if you were god, why? What do you expect from God if He did, just to show He was God or to give Himself glory?
3. Did you just throw that one in to show off that you've done your research?! What's it got to do with anything. What I will say though is, people who say they have morals and hence that makes them a good perrson etc, where do they get these morals from or what do they base them on?? There has to be a bench mark and morals do come from God - yes. What God commands is good and beneficial to us, all of us - hence being termed by us to be 'moral'.
So it is not so much moral because God commanded it, but because God commanded it - it is moral.
Is it really that I have an inablility to answer these or you just not liking my answers, not everyone understands the ways of God? That's understandable if you don't, sometimes it just takes a simple faith to see (NB. different to gulible or uninformed faith, and no I'm not saying that I have all the answers either).
1. I think you've missed something in the translation from your head to the written word.
2. "Would you heal eveyone of terminal ilnesses if you were god, why? What do you expect from God if He did, just to show He was God or to give Himself glory?"
Answer: It's called medical research, one of the aims of which is to advance cures for all kinds of illnesses including terminal ones. If a doctor heals someone, its not to show how great the doctor is, its for the benefit of the patient. Similarly, I'd expect God to heal people for their own benefit, not for "His glory". What makes you think God is so vain, self-absorbed or prone to bragging?
3. You're the one who said "God is good". Your answer is circular. You don't seem to have understood the difference. Are morals outside of God, ie God commands something because it is good for reasons beyond God, or is something good because God commands it i.e "might is right"?
2 Corinthians 4
"1Therefore, since through God's mercy we have this ministry, we do not lose heart. 2Rather, we have renounced secret and shameful ways; we do not use deception, nor do we distort the word of God. On the contrary, by setting forth the truth plainly we commend ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God. 3And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing. 4The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers, so that they cannot see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God. 5For we do not preach ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus' sake. 6For God, who said, "Let light shine out of darkness,"made his light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ."
Thanks for explaining, Tish. I see now its God's fault that I don't understand the mumbo-jumbo.
You can quote that text again when you are mocking the denizens of Hell from your abode in Heaven.
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