Wow. A girl steps away from the board to spend a little time with hubby and the puppies and look what happens! Dear Miz Syl and Miz Tec... the greatest of love and peace to you both, and THANK you... for carrying on! LOLOLOLOL
Greetings, dear Bohm, and peace to you!
Imagine that I had a magic button which i could push at any time and it would give everyone food, housing, security and kill the devil and all on his side in an instant. Just by one single push with my finger. Now imagine I was looking into the eyes of a child slowly starving to death, or being raped, or being burned alive in an oven in Auschwitz. Is there any possible reason why i should not push that button?
If that WERE the function of the button, no. But you assume that that is the function. It is not. Dear one, we don't want the Most Holy One of Israel to step in and solve our problems... i.e., 'push the button.' Eventually, He WILL... but until that time we don't want Him to. Truly. Why? Because not everyone we WANT to be ready for such an event... is ready. Heck, we don't even want earthling man to push HIS "magic" button. Look at all of the summits, etc., to PREVENT it. When JAH finally "pushes the button" it will be worse for some than any other time previously. The flood of Noah's day. Sodom and Gomorrah. Egypt. Jerusalem. Even the Holocaust.
The Most Holy One of Israel never promise man the things you mention while man is OUTSIDE of the "garden," and it is not until all of His are "INSIDE" the Holy City, "New Jerusalem", that the button will be pushed. Praise JAH... the "gate" to that City is not yet shut. It's narrow, true, and few are the ones finding it (him, Christ)... but look! the Door stands open, still!
As for that child, she is not forgotten. True, her flesh may have returned to the dust... and possibly her bones burned. But if she belonged to JAH... her spirit returned to JAH... and is under the altar and in His protection... awaiting resurrection to a spirit body. If she did not belong to Him but her spirit left her body before her bones were fully burned, it went to the World of the Dead... and awaits a resurrection... either to life or judgment, which is another discussion and thread altogether.
God created us in his image,
That is inaccurate, dear NVL (and peace to you!). He created Adham and Eve in His image. We are created in Adam's image... the image he possessed AFTER he sinned. I truly don't understand why folks just CAN'T seem to GET this truth. Even if you don't want to take MY word for, it's what THE BIBLE (which you seem to rely on??) even states. In more than one place!
he expressed emotions like we do,
Again, that is inaccurate. WE express emotions in a [very] poor imitation of Him.
he is completely anthropomorphised by his own inspired writings.
First, I must ask, to which writings are you referring as "his"? Please, PLEASE... do not say "the Bible," because that is NOT His "inspired writings" but only contains SOME of those writings. Second, He IS anthropomorphized... but so much more by His Son. Which He HAD to do ... because man... who LACKS FAITH... cannot PERCEIVE Him as the Spirit He is. Which is MAN's deficiency, not His. And so, He condescended to allow His Son... and that Son condescended... to put ON flesh. So that we COULD see His glory... through that One's WORKS... not his FLESH. It was an accommodation for OUR lack of faith!
Children always compare themselves to their parents. God had friends and conversed with them,
allowed them to persuade him, felt love, regret. Other than the indiscriminate killing and display of
random destructive power, he is just like us. Why shouldn't we compare ourselves to him or him to us.
We SHOULD compare ourselves... which we DO by looking at CHRIST... and if we DID we would find that WE fall WAY short in such a comparison! As for comparing Him to US... that is exactly why we have things written about Him that are NOT true, that are ENTIRELY false: because they are what MAN does and thus, like the self-serving beings WE are... always attributing OUR "dirt" to others... we attribute such to HIM. BUT... if one TRULY wants to see God... KNOW what He looks like... what He thinks like... one only needs to SEE... and KNOW... Christ.
I think children are innocent to God. WE corrupt them.
Greetings, dear tec... and the greatest of love and peace to you! I mean no disrespect but would just like to set this matter straight. Children may or may not be innocent to God. That a person has not been BORN yet, however, does NOT mean they don't exist. For some, the person comes into being at the moment of conception. For the Most Holy One of Israel, however, it starts even before that. HE knows the PERSON that a pairing of 2 individuals will produce. And should the physical world last long enough, earthling man will eventually come to know of this phenomena, too, that the person comes into existence even before his/her body does. Right now, however, some excuse it away in order to excuse away abortion (but note, I am NOT trying to start THAT debate right now).
Contrary to popular belief... or disbelief... or an inability to believe, however... we don't "naturally" come into this world with love and peace IN us. Such things are AGAINST our "nature." We come... with hate and anger... which is a PRODUCT of our "nature." ALL of us (excluding a rare few, discussed below). We are NOT pre-programmed to accept the good and hate the bad. Like Christ, we must LEARN to accept the good and reject the bad. He did not come into this world KNOWING how to choose good from bad. His previous existence was not fully known to him until around the time he was weaned. He was sent in the likeness of sinFUL flesh, in all respects, and thus had to learn as we do. Some of us learn it real quick... and on very rare occasions (I only know of 3, but there may have been others) even before leaving the womb (because of the SPIRIT that was IN them... BEFORE they left leave the womb). Some, however, NEVER learn it. Ever.
I offer, as I have on many occasions before, that any one of us can put 2 or more toddlers in a room with one toy... and see what happens. With the exception of the rare occasion (i.e., where one toddler has already "learned" to "share"... and that can occur for a number of reasons, including the spirit given them at conception, their quick intelligence, and more...), someone has to TEACH those toddlers to how to share and "play nice." Most often, however, sooner or later one of them will bust the other in the head with that toy. Even if someone has been trying to teach them NOT to do such a thing.
And EVERYONE here who has been a parent KNOWS this is the truth. AND... that we blame BOTH the child AND the parent, even though they are toddlers. We blame the toddler for not KNOWING how to "play nice," (because, "Well. MY little Susie knew how and I didn't have teach her a THING, but THIS child, well... I can see it in her already and she's a 'bad' seed"...). We blame the parent(s) for not TEACHING them how to do so ("How can she/he/they let her BE 'like' that? They should DO 'something.' I would NEVER let MY little Susie treat another child that way...").
The Most Holy One of Israel can "see" what a person will do/be... before their flesh ever even exits the womb, however. Just as a parent can "see" what their child will become (even if they don't want to admit it - we very often choose NOT to see, however, if the "signs" are "bad." Because we don't want to take responsibility for what we "see"...). And He can CERTAINLY see His own children and, thus, those who are NOT His children.
Jesus said that he longed to gather the children of Jerusalem... but they (Jerusalem) were not willing.
Yes, dear one... THEY were not willing... themselves OR to allow their children!
I don't know why God allows suffering. I don't know what else is going on.
Sure you do! AN ACCUSATION HAS BEEN RAISED... against each and every ONE of us: skin and behalf of skin and ALL that a man has he WILL give on behalf of his flesh! ("Now the accuser of our brothers, who ACCUSES them night and day, has been thrown down!" What has he accused us OF?)
I do trust Him, though - and I think he knows the way things will turn out and the way things would
have been if he imposed his will on those who are not willing.
And you trust Him... because of your FAITH. Which is why YOU get these things, while others DON'T.
None of any of it changes the fact that we are responsible for making changes.
Indeed! And those who are children of the flesh... of ADHAM... as opposed to the children of God... do exactly what their "father" did: blames everyone else for HIS actions.
We have ourselves to blame for the way things are. And we fall short on both, time and again. You can't blame a god you're not listening to or believing in to begin with.
Although you speak the truth, dear one... they're not listening. They can't. Because they don't WANT to hear the truth... FROM the Truth. Yet. That they don't want to, however, doesn't stop our Lord... or us... from speaking. Jerusalem didn't listen, either. Nor did Capernaum. Or others. Yet, the disciples were still sent back to those, even after our Lord went to offer his sacrifice on behalf of those in Jerusalem... and Capernaum.
Finally, dear Whereami (peace to you!), your video was most interesting. Especially the part about what theology teaches. Seems pretty accurate to me, as they don't have much to do with the TRUTH. Never have. The first part, however, seems to indicate that the video's creator didn't agree with "theology" at all... and if that is the case, then I must agree with him/her.
Again, I bid you all peace... and ears to hear, if you have not already heard... when the Spirit and the Bride say to YOU:
"Come! Take 'life's water'... FREE!"
A slave of Christ, the cistern from which such "water" flows,
SA