He could have been a pinch hitter.
On Sep 9, 4:34 am, "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
wrote:
> I guess Adam may have been a boxer in a past life, a quick jab in and
> then back out agian.
>
> On 5 Sep, 05:38, Adam <[email protected]> wrote:
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>
> > There are some things that have worried and perplexed church-going
> > people for centuries.
> > For example.
> > Why does God remain silent? Why are prayers ineffective? Why does He
> > not interfere in men’s affairs? Why does He not prevent evil? Why does
> > He not punish evil doers? How does predestination work? Are people
> > saved by faith or works?
> > I am going to try to answer all these question in this article.
> > I will attempt to explain the reason for our existence as revealed by
> > the Bible.
> > I will also try to reveal the mind and purpose of God from the same
> > source and explain His two plans of salvation.
> > The Bible records that both Adam and Eve ate of the forbidden fruit
> > and they eventually died.
> > The fruit contained drugs which had several effects on them both.
> > Their knowledge was increased because their eyes were opened and they
> > realised that they were naked. They became mortal and they became
> > selfish. So the fruit contained a mind-altering drug, a slow acting
> > poison that made them mortal and it changed their DNA structure to
> > produce the “selfish gene” (a description invented by atheist Richard
> > Dawkins). This selfish gene and the mortality would be passed on to
> > all their offspring right up to the present time.
> > These changes were not a punishment imposed upon the pair by God. They
> > were the natural consequences of eating a drugged substance. God did
> > punish them by imposing pain in childbirth upon Eve and hard
> > unfruitful labour upon Adam. The punishments were designed to show
> > them that their actions had caused pain to God and had made His work
> > unfruitful.
> > God’s purpose in creating mankind was to produce a race of people
> > willingly obedient to His word. He would then give eternal life to
> > this race of people and dwell with them on the earth.
> > This purpose has been delayed because of the sin of the original pair
> > in the Garden of Eden.
> > Sin may be defined as “the failure to love God and neighbour”. The
> > proof that we love God is if we obey His commands and if we obey those
> > commands (which deal with the fair treatment of other people) then we
> > love our neighbour. The two go together. Ignorance of God is also sin
> > because we can’t love or obey what we don’t know.
> > The selfishness which is a part of every one of us is what theologians
> > have called “original sin”. Some seem to think that we all bear the
> > guilt of Adam’s sin. This is rubbish. We are not guilty of Adam’s sin
> > but we do indeed suffer the results of it. The inherent selfishness in
> > our bodies is “sinful human flesh” and it alienates us from God. We
> > are all, then, classified as “sinners” by God and are doomed to die.
> > In fact it is necessary for all of us to die to destroy the selfish
> > gene within us all. This selfish gene is what is known as ‘the devil’
> > in scriptural terms. So Christ destroyed the devil within himself by
> > his death.
> > After the disobedience of the first human pair God could have
> > destroyed them and started again with a new pair. But he did not
> > destroy them. He allowed them to procreate and bring about the human
> > race as we see it today together with all its imperfections.
> > After the flood God gradually reduced the lifespan of all humans to a
> > maximum of 120 years but He apparently did not want everybody to die
> > solely from old age. So He introduced many and varied ways of bringing
> > about their death. Old age, epidemics and accidents were just a few
> > ways of accomplished this end. There are also earthquakes and volcanic
> > eruption and tidal waves and stillbirths, etc. This great variety of
> > ways to die ensures that no one knows just how or when he will lose
> > his life. In the light of this it is wrong to say that God has given
> > us life. It is more accurate to say that God has lent us life for a
> > relatively short time to see if we can overcome our inherent
> > selfishness and treat our neighbours fairly. God has thrown us in at
> > the deep end to see which ones of us can rise above our nature. Even
> > the most primitive people know the difference between right and wrong
> > because we all have a conscience which will either justify or condemn
> > us on the day of judgement.
> > In the Old Testament the word ‘heaven’ generally means ‘the sky’ but
> > in prophecy it often has a symbolic meaning. It means ‘the place where
> > the seat of government is located’ and the ‘earth’ means ‘the common
> > people’ or subjects of that government. Thus God, being the supreme
> > ruler of the universe, dwells in heaven somewhere, and on earth the
> > various kings and governments also inhabit their local ‘heaven’.
> > In Paul’s day the seat of government was in Rome so when he wrote that
> > the gospel had been ‘preached to every creature which is under
> > heaven’, he did not mean that it had been preached in Japan or on the
> > American continent, he meant that it had only been preached throughout
> > the Roman Empire.
> > Almost one third of the Bible is devoted to prophecy but I am not
> > going to delve into it in this article except to say that Christ has
> > promised to return to this earth and set up a kingdom here with its
> > headquarters in Jerusalem. To help with the government of this kingdom
> > certain men and women have been chosen to rule with Christ. These
> > people are called ‘saints’ and they were predestined to be called to
> > this honour since before the foundation of the earth. This is the
> > extent of predestination in the Bible. After the call was answered,
> > the saints had the free will to remain faithful to their calling or
> > not as they chose. There is no predestination for sinners. We all have
> > freewill. The saints were each given the Holy Spirit which taught them
> > all truth and given at least one supernatural gift. The Holy Spirit
> > was passed on to saints by the laying on of hands by one of the
> > apostles. The call began when Christ started teaching but then ceased
> > with the death of the last apostle because there was no one left to
> > pass on the Holy Spirit. The church quickly became corrupt as the
> > apostles predicted and there has been no true church since. The whole
> > world is now in the darkness of ignorance and will remain so until the
> > return of Christ.
> > The saints who have remained faithful unto death will be resurrected
> > immortal at the return of Christ and be rewarded with positions of
> > authority in the kingdom according to their works. Those saints who
> > have fallen away from the faith have had their names removed from the
> > book of life, the Holy Spirit has been taken away from them and they
> > will not be raised at the return of Christ.
> > It is predicted that the prophet Elijah will return to Israel to
> > preach repentance to the Jews before the return of Christ. There are
> > indications that a new generation of saints will receive the call at
> > that time. Until that happens we sinners have been left to repent of
> > our evil ways and follow the dictates of our conscience to treat our
> > neighbours fairly. If we can do this then we will receive a favourable
> > judgement at the return of Christ and our names entered into the book
> > of life. At the end of the millennium all the sinners will be
> > resurrected and those whose names are not found in the book of life
> > will be thrown into the lake of fire, which is the second death.
> > Now the saints will be saved by faith (which produces works) but
> > sinners who may have no faith will be saved (or otherwise) by works.
> > So there are two different plans for salvation for two different
> > classes of people. No one can become a saint unless they are called by
> > God. It does not depend on man’s desire or effort but on God’s mercy.
> > Now, why does God not answer prayers? It is because God doesn’t listen
> > to sinners. Neither does he communicate with them. I have witnessed a
> > whole congregation pray for the recovery of a sick woman with no
> > response from God.
> > God does not interfere or prevent sin because everybody is going to be
> > judged by Christ at his return. It does not matter whether a person
> > lives a long or short time in this life. God knows the mind of man and
> > will judge fairly. This is a time of probation and opportunity. To get
> > things in perspective, we have to look at things from God’s point of
> > view. We have no rights before God. He chooses who He wants for honour
> > or destruction. Compared with the creation of the universe the nations
> > are as a drop in the bucket.
> > Now the church-going people have remained in ignorance for nearly 2000
> > years because they have assumed that they, too, are saints and that
> > the New Testament refers to them. They have closed their eyes to the
> > fact that there are no Spirit gifts available today. This alone should
> > have told them something. Those money-grabbing fakes who claim the
> > gift of healing should go and empty the hospitals or shut up.
> > In trying to be brief I have perhaps not explained things very well
> > but I can elaborate if requested.
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