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Pastimes : Prophecy -- HYPE or HOPE? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: alan w who wrote (2552)	2/5/2004 2:57:03 PM
From: gregor	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 5569

We are into some deep interpretations here. For example. The progression goes like this. God is in control of all. God 'created the wicked'. For the day of evil. As you allude to . If God knows all before hand then he obviously He must have had the creative knowledge of what he was creating. Then God gives us all a free moral will to do as we wish and to accept or reject Him. A very big contradiction. Right. It would seem. I have lost relatives. If I pray for them and they are saved then God has answered my prayer but did He also honor the free moral choices of my relatives to make their own choices. If I would not have prayed for them would they have been lost or saved. Would it really have done any good to pray for them or not. You are getting into predestination here. If you read the account of Moses and Pharaoh you will see that at first it was God that hardened the heart of Pharoah. Then later on you will see a change in that the bible states that Pharaoh hardened his own heart. God did not have to. Paul gets into the discussion of Pharaoh being predestined to be lost. We have a total race of beings on the earth before the present dispensation of Adam. Adam replenished the earth not plenished the earth. Meaning that there was a civilization here before. The world was destroyed by flood before the flood of Noah. And not one of these being were saved. Hard to imagine that not even one was saved. Would God have allowed this for the purposes of evil. I have a lot of questions and few answers. I have set my mind to follow the Lord and see where I end up, however. If its blind faith and I guess it is then I suffer the consequences one way or the other. I have seen the works of the enemy and I do not like him, I have set my mind to destroy the works of the devil and there is no compromise in me where the enemy is concerned. These issues that we are talking about in my opinion are not meant to be understood by the human mind. God is just too deep and experienced and too beyond our understanding, and if someone tells you they can understand it then I can but pity that person. Forgive me for rambling on a little here. In summation I do feel that our free will is not absolute and our free will is limited and finite. God's love for us knows no boundaries. If he sent His son to die for us he would do anything that I can ask of Him and believe of Him...In Christ...gregor