Interests:Reading, writing including poetry, music, The King James Bible, theology, reaching out, though I haven't gotten much further than being interested in it. Occupation:Construction
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The question, yes THE question is does God love everybody? If not everybody, how do I know if He loves me? Because I'm good? How good? What about the verse that say God is angry with the wicked every day? And when He will laugh at their calamity? Some people say He loves the people but hates their sin. That's not quite accurate. Doesn't say angry with their sin. Its in Ps 2:11. So what is the truth? For God so loved the world that He gave...Does He love or does He hate sinners? I've heard another view: God's love is in His son and if you are not in the son, you are under His wrath. Which is true. But...does God not love all people, then? For God so loved the world....Maybe He just love(d) them--past tense.Maybe He demonstrated His love in the act of sending His son into the world but otherwise He hates us.
Well, I heard the truth and I want to share it with you all. God can hold infinite love for somebody on one hand and hold infinite hate for him on the other hand at the same time. Its hard for our finite minds to comprehend that. So God does actually love everybody. But not because His love won out over His hate. He found a place to bury His hate: in the flesh of His Son. I grappled with that question for a long time. Until the other week. I watched Michael Pearl explain it. It made complete sense and I could totally accept that worn out verse that is now no longer worn out: For God so loved the world that He gave His only-begotten Son that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. I now know its true as true can be: He loves me because He loves everybody and his love is real because He also hates sinners. Here's the link to Mr. Pearl answering one of many questions he receives. http://www.nogreaterjoy.org/audio-video/view-video/archive/2009/november/03/bible-questions-with-michael-pearl-episode-014/
You can read the warning for yourself here: http://www.charityministries.org/theremnant/2009/4Q/theremnant-2009-4Q-social-networking.a5w He has good things to say IMO. But as an ex-Amish I can see that its the same argument the Amish use that you should not have cars: its so much easier to go places that are not good. Or the Old Order Mennonites: no rubber tires on your tractor to help control yourself! (maybe that's actually a good thing) ? ? Just don't make it your religion!! My conclusion: take the warning to heart and let the Holy Spirit show and convict as He is the only one with intimate understanding of each blogger and where their heart is. Perhaps we should do as Aaron said: (the author of the warning) fast for a month and use the time invested on social networks and invest it in reading the Word of God and reaching out to real people (not their profiles) in face-to-face relationships. See what happens! See if at the end of the month you find yourself saying, "I was blinded!" or , "I was deceived!"
P.S. The only reason I brought up the issue is simply because I was reminded of the article when I signed in on xanga again. I'm not casting reflection on anyone necessarily. ~ Moses
Hey, ah....sorry...ah I am still alive. But don't know if you all are xangas or not facebook must be better the way it sounds. The remnant had an article in their magazine. Good warning I reckon. As long as they don't pass legislation on the issue.
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I have been reading, From Sea to Shining Sea,by Peter Marshall and David Manuel. They say that The Christian Spectator summed up the revivalists' (like, Charles Finney, Lyman Beecher, Timothy Dwight) position on the issue of church and state:
"What has religion to do with the State, you ask? In the form of ecclesiastical alliances, nothing. But in its operation as a controlling, purifying power in the consciences of the people, we answer, it has everything to do. It is the last hope of republics. And let it be remembered, if ever our ruin shall come, that the questions which agitate, the factions which distract, the convulsions which dissolve, will be but secondary causes. The true evil will lie back of these, in the moral debasement of the people. And no excellence of political institutions, no sagacity of human wisdom, which did not, like that of our Puritan fathers, begin and end with religion, could have averted the calamity." ~Moses
