Thursday, February 21, 2013

What is God’s greatest problem? How is it resolved? BIB 534-1 -04-7

“God who gave us life gave us liberty. Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these liberties are the gift of God? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, that his justice cannot sleep forever.” (Thomas Jefferson) “
God’s greatest problem is just how does a righteous God forgive sins without compromising His righteousness? To a holy God, sin is sin. Romans 3:9-10, “As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one.” How was God to bridge the gulf between His righteous and sinful man? God stepped out of eternity to pay the ransom for our salvation. Ephesians 2:8, “For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God.”

Habakkuk 2:4, “Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him: but the just shall live by his faith.” So what of the unjust man who does not live by faith? In my opinion, a relevant discussion question was included this week in Revelation Part 2, “5. Discuss the three alternatives that God has in dealing with rebellious mankind.” According to Dr. Missler, God's has three Alternatives:

#1 He can indulge it and allow it to go on forever;
#2 He can force man into automata;
#3 He can withdraw Himself.

It seems we are still somewhat in alternative #1, however, God will certainly not allow our sinful behavior to go on forever. It would seem that the current world-wide birth pains would attest to God’s losing patience with mankind.

God created man with free will him and never seemed to indicate any desire to have a kingdom of robots. So this eliminates option #2.
So we are left with opinion #3 and the fact that God can choose to withdraw himself from us by withdrawing His hedge of protection from America. Given world events, it would seem that any hedge of protection has long since been removed from many other countries and is being removed from American.

“‘Behold I am about to bring a calamity upon this place, at which the ears of everyone that hears of it will tingle. Because they have forsaken Me … and because they have filled this place with the blood of the innocent and have built the high places of Baal to burn their sons in the fire as burnt offerings to Baal, a thing which I never commanded or spoke of, nor did it ever enter My mind; therefore, behold, days are coming,’ declares the LORD, ‘when this place will … be called … the valley of Slaughter.’” (Jeremiah 19:3-5) Fast forward to the present and the millions of babies destroyed on the altar of abortion, so much for our God given hedge of protection.

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