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To: Berry Picker who wrote (36140)	1/1/2004 5:59:20 PM
From: Berry Picker	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 39621

Questions you should never ask in Church. Warning – do not show these questions to your pastor unless you are ready to hear some really stupid answers and lose respect for him. Above all – if you enjoy the fellowship and “pot luck” dinners do not consult the bible to answer any of these questions ever. Did God hate the unborn infant Esau? Could Pharaoh have repented and changed history? Did God not know Adam and Eve would sin when He created them? Why did God put the “tree of the knowledge of good and evil” in paradise? Did God plan and ordain ‘original sin’? Does God fail to save any man He wants to save? If Christ wants all men saved is He not then at least a partial failure? Could God rain “manna” from heaven and feed hungry children if He wanted to? Why did God feed only one widow in the days of Elijah – a gentile woman yet? Is satan glorified when men give him credit for their actions? Should men take responsibility for their own actions or blame satan or even God? Is satan really ‘alive and well’ on planet earth – or is he now in the lake of fire? Can the elect escape the love of God or His destiny and plan for them? Does “Predestination” simply mean “Foreseeing” things? Does “Predestination” make God unfair or unjust in Judgement? Is “Rejecting Christ” a sin Christ forgot to die for? Are some men just naturally better than others? If men can “fall from grace” does that make Christ’s prayers of no effect? If Christ is God can His prayers go unanswered? Does satan ever pray? Does God hate the prayers of the wicked? If more people go to hell than get saved why does God not stop the world now? Why did God strike Herod and others dead but not stop Hitler? What does “the wrath” mean in scripture? Can we be LESS THAN CONQUERORS? Did God make “Vessels (men) ‘fitted’ (suited) for destruction”? When did God decide to give ‘US’ eternal life? Did Jesus love some apostles more than others or all men the same? Are not “good works’ also predestined of God? Why did Jesus hide his message in parables from the masses? Was it even possible for Judas to not betray Christ? Why did God allow Judas to be born if He knew he would suffer in hell forever? Do even evil men ‘glorify’ God? Can satan repent and be saved? Why does God ‘offer’ salvation to men but not to satan or the demons? Are some men ordained to eternal life while others are not? Didn’t God chose us long before we ever ‘accepted’ Him? Can “dead men” have “free will” to do what is right? Are all men by nature slaves of sin? Can a “dead in sin” creature ever ‘accept’ Christ and His truth? Could the authorities have repented and released the innocent Christ? Is “Faith in Christ” a gift from God or an act of the flesh initiated in the human will? Is God’s Grace ‘irresistible’? Isn’t God’s will Absolutely Sovereign? Did Christ die for all men? Can men who are saved ignore God’s law? Is belief in Christ enough or do our actions count? What does “under grace and not law” really mean? Are those who refuse God’s law truly born again? Does Christ’s kingdom come all at once or gradually? Was Christ mistaken about returning to “that generation”? Did Paul think Christ would return while some of them were yet alive? Is the ‘universal voice’ theory biblical or human invention? Did Christ really not know when He would return? Can Christ be God and yet not know something that the Father does? Did David foresee the ‘church age’? Is Christ King of Kings right now and ruling over the earth? Is satan still ruling the earth? Did “heaven and earth” pass away yet? Didn’t Christ’s kingdom start before the cross? Is Christ to rule ‘physically’ on earth in the future? What does “David’s throne” really represent? Was the temple destroyed so that not one stone was upon another in 70 AD? Did Christ believe He would return before some of the apostles “tasted death”? Do the Pentecostal gifts still exist or did they pass away with the apostolic age? Do any who believe in Christ and do miracles still go to hell? How can you know if you have eternal life if some who believe still perish? Are these questions things we should never ask or what can we ask? What does it mean to worship God with your whole mind? Is “not leaning on your own understanding” a command to be mindless or ignorant? Why are most ‘christians’ content to NOT KNOW THE TRUTH about questions like these? In the Love of His Truth Alone - Brian Post Script: Romans 3:4 God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged. P.S.S Happy New Year - may 2004 be a year of taking Christ at His Word and forsaking the doctrines and commandments of men.