Question was asked: “Why did God kill David’s son for David’s sin, is not every man culpable for his own sin?”
Christian response,
God took David’s son because to whom much is given, much is expected and God will not be mocked, whatever a man sows this he shall also reap (Galatians 6:7-10) as did the entire World save eight during the Flood. God is Sovereign…life is His to give and take (Job 1:21). David is the King…much was given, much was expected…David sowed and reaped and God punished David in the flesh which led to godly repentance and ultimately salvation. David’s child was secure in the Lord and ushered into the presence of God and David knew this (2 Samuel 12). God’s ways are not our ways (Isaiah 55:8-9)…when we understand this and when we believe this with sincerity…we allow God to be God and get out of the way.
A Jewish Legalist declares that Israel is the recipient of God’s grace and the Law is the only path to righteousness-salvation.
A Christian rebuttal…
God’s Covenant concerning Messiah and atonement for sin was ordained before the beginning of Time (2 Timothy 1:9-10) and that Gospel Covenant was initiated by God with Abraham (who was NOT a Jew or Israelite) and that Covenant made with Abraham was oriented toward “all the families of the earth”…not just Israel’s children (Genesis 12:3).
“I will bless those who bless you,And I will curse him who curses you;And in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.”Genesis 12:3
Israel reaping and sowing,
Israel rejected God’s covenants, murdered the prophets sent to them; Israel rejected their Messiah; Israel falsely accused Messiah of blasphemy; Israel conspired with the Roman Authorities to murder Messiah Jesus upon a tree; Israel insisted that Messiah’s blood be upon them and their children; God the Father ordained the Israelite’s to take the Gospel of Messiah to the ends of the Earth but Jacob’s children rejected the Gospel message of grace and continues to cling to a works – self righteousness through Law (Romans 9:31).
Though God entrusted the Law and both Old and New Covenants to Jacob’s children, Israel denied God’s blessing through Messiah; therefore, God gave the Gospel, the New Covenant established in Messiah blood (Matthew 26:28), to the Gentiles (Romans 11:25) and the Gospel will remain in the custody of the Gentiles until such time the fullness of the Gentiles has come in; in fact, it is only the “remnant” of Israel that will escape Judgment in Hell for their rejection of Messiah Jesus (Isaiah 10:22; Romans 9:27).
Jesus said,
15 just as the Father knows Me and I know the Father. And I lay down My life for the sheep. 16 I have other sheep that are not of this fold. I must bring them in as well, and they will listen to My voice. Then there will be one flock and one shepherd. 17 The reason the Father loves Me is that I lay down My life in order to take it up again. John 10 (Berean Study Bible)
Question was asked: “Why didn’t God simply forgive Satan after the Fall?”
Christian response,
Satan, in his pride and arrogance, never sought forgiveness nor did he repent but persuaded one-third of the angelic creation to follow him in a coup against God; this is why Earth was created and why Satan was extricated from the Kingdom and placed here to be dealt with within the Realm of Time partially constrained by physics as nothing impure is permitted to exist within the Kingdom of God (Rev 21:27). Jesus entered Time specifically to destroy the works of the Devil (1 John 3:8b).
SHAME on Mayor Miller, Sheriff Johnson, Macon and Bibb County administrators, for allowing the bullies, the narcissistic thugs, of the illegally LOUD motor vehicle cult[ure] to abuse and intimidate the most innocent in your area of responsibility. SHAME on Sheriff Johnson for his failure to protect and serve the citizens of Macon County as LOUD biker, auto and truck thugs operating illegally equipped, illegally LOUD motor vehicles destroy the environment and abuse, audibly assault, the citizenry he swore to protect.
My wife and I are traveling the United States in search of a home, investments…we will NOT invest our money where the local administration will not, is too lazy or inept, to provide basic protections while allowing noise thugs to rule and ruin their community. Shame on you Georgia!
Question was asked on FB: “Why do so many people reject God’s grace by faith in Jesus, alone, and insist that we must be obedient to a Law or become sufficiently good to earn God’s favor and eternal life?”
Christian response,
Mankind, the Jews, Israelites, Legalists, Religions, Cults, insist that works of the Law, obedience, “cleaning up our behavior” by pulling our own self up to God’s standards by our boot-straps, are necessary for salvation; actually, the root of a works salvation is pride, self-righteousness, arrogance, a refusal to believe God and allow God to be God over His creation. Far too many religions, cults, perceive simple faith – “belief” in the death of Jesus as payment for our sins – to be far too simple for God to be pleased and satiated concerning the self-defilement of sin and payment for same; basically, the legalist calls the Holy Spirit a liar through their unbelief in what He has said concerning the sufficiency of Jesus’ death as atonement for our sin.Truth is…God is all about love-relationship-with His created beings, both angelic and human…it is man that muddies up the simplicity of God’s grace with works, effort, worry, self-righteousness i.e. legalism.
The legalist, to justify their legalism, then accuses the one who lives by grace through faith in Jesus as being a law breaker and disobedient and using God’s grace as a license to sin…but this is obfuscation on the part of the legalist as the one who is truly born again by the Spirit abhors sin because sin saddens the Father and interrupts intimacy with our Lord. The faithful in Jesus walk in the Spirit, daily, and follow Him in sanctification as the law is written upon our heart in the New Covenant.
The faithful in Jesus pursue obedience to God’s will for our life because we LOVE and respect God…not in fear but in adoration and thankfulness for what He has done for us…in this covenant relationship with our Father established by grace through faith in Jesus, there is peace.
Question was asked, “How do we know who God is using?”
Christian response,
God uses everyone…nothing is wasted…you are used by God for His purposes or you are used by God to display His wrath for disobedience through your servitude to Satan…but everyone is used as a vessel either for honor or dishonor…the distinguishing factor as to how God uses us is our decision concerning the Son, Jesus Christ.
Why does the Jew, the Israelite, Religion, accuse Paul of lying concerning righteousness by grace through faith as opposed to righteousness through obedience to the Law?
Christian response,
The Apostle Paul is accused of being a liar by Jew’s-Israelite’s, legalists, cults, religions, because the Jew’s-Israelite’s, religions, pursue self-righteousness in their arrogance and stubbornness and refuse to allow God to be God but Elohim told the Jew, the Israelite, as far back as Genesis 3:21, immediately subsequent to the fall mankind into sin, that God Himself would shed innocent blood and clothe humanity in a robe of imputed righteousness and that the work of man’s hands (represented by the fig leaves) would NOT be accepted as atonement or a covering for sin; this prophecy was fulfilled 4000-years later at Golgotha.
Unfortunately, the Jew-Israelite is blinded, hardened, for having rejected Messiah, murdering Him upon a tree and demanding that His blood be upon them and their children (Romans 11:25; 2 Corinthians 3:14; Matthew 27:25). This is called the “blood curse,” sowing and reaping, an eternal doctrine of truth that is immutable; the truth is, our sin will receive its just due/payment; either we will pay for our own sin by death in Hell and cease all existence or trust in Jesus as our Lord who paid our sin-debt for us and live eternally with Him (2 Corinthians 5:21); there are no other alternatives available to mankind and Jesus is the ONLY ONE sufficiently righteous to pay that sin-debt (Acts 4:12). Unless Jesus is Lord in your life, you will perish in absolute futility, Jew or Gentile (Mark 8:36).
The Trinity is extant throughout the Scriptures beginning in Genesis 1:1 with Elohim, a plural noun/singular verb; Genesis 1:2 with the introduction of the Holy Spirit; the collaboration of Father-Son-Spirit (Us-Our) in Genesis 1:26-28 as the Trinity carefully created the human genome; Genesis 3:15 with the introduction of God the Son born of a woman (not Adam’s seed) to do battle with the Devil (1 John 3:8b) and the battle strategy in Genesis 3:21 that Jesus would follow to defeat the Devil, the first introduction of the Gospel of Grace by the shedding of innocent blood clothing humanity in a robe of imputed righteousness (2 Corinthians 5:21) and the rejection of man’s works to earn salvation. In the first three chapters of the Canon the Trinity is extant and the following Scriptures under gird the veracity and necessity for our God who is ONE-God revealed in three-distinct personalities.
What is the ONE-unique distinguishing doctrine that separates the born again Christian from every religion or cult in the World?
Recently, a FB contributor mocked the idea of Jesus’ deity pointing to John 11:35, “Jesus wept,” suggesting that God would not or could not cry. Jesus is God and God possesses emotions, feelings, desires as God is love (1 John 4:8). Jesus wept over His people (Jacob’s children), the people He set-apart for His covenants, His blessing, the people He would die for, to redeem, the people He chose before the beginning of Time to proselytize the World with the Gospel and be a blessing to every family of the Earth (Genesis 12:3). Jesus wept over their rejection of Him as their Messiah, the One promised them through the prophets, through the Torah, through the Law. Jesus wept over Jacob’s children and their decision to die in Hell and the demands they would make to have His blood be upon them and their children. Jesus wept bitterly for those He loves who would never know His purpose for having entered the Realm of Time (Romans 9:27; Isaiah 10:22).
The uniqueness of true Christianity?
What is the ONE-distinguishing doctrine that separates the true “born again” Christian, those who have sincerely trusted in Jesus as Lord and have subsequently received the indwelling Holy Spirit as Guarantor of covenant relationship with the Father, from every religion and cult of the World? That one distinguishing characteristic or doctrine that sets-apart the true Christian from every religion is the knowledge and understanding, the sincere belief, that Jesus is God-Elohim-Yahweh having manifested in flesh for the primary purpose of destroying the works of the Devil (1 John 3:8b). If a man or woman names the Name of Jesus Christ as Lord, Messiah, Savior, yet denies He is God in flesh, they do not know Jesus, they do not possess the Holy Spirit, they do not enjoy covenant relationship with God the Father, they are not born again by the Spirit, they remain in their sins; they are headed to perdition in unbelief. It is the indwelling Holy Spirit that reveals the eternal truth that Jesus is God and if a person is absent the Holy Spirit, they are absent life in God’s Kingdom, they are absent eternal life, they are lost and existing in hopelessness.
22 Who is the liar, if it is not the one who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the antichrist, who denies the Father and the Son. 23 Whoever denies the Son does not have the Father, but whoever confesses the Son has the Father as well. 1 John 2:22-23 (Berean Study Bible)
Hello Mayor Eveland, Maggie Valley alderman, city attorney, Governor Roy Cooper,
My wife and I toured your beautiful municipality today, 9-10-21; unfortunately, you have compromised your values, your oath, your duty to protect the citizenry by inviting the LOUD, narcissistic, thugs of the LOUD motorcycle community into Maggie Valley via the “Thunder in the Smokies” motorcycle rally; these loud thugs traverse thousand of miles to end up on your city streets where you trade the safety of your citizenry and the safety of those they audibly assaulted en route to your city for the monies garnered by tax revenue from biker thugs. I will NOT invest my real estate money in a town or state where leadership is too cowardly or lazy or politically correct to provide the most basic of governmental responsibilities, protection.
Ninety-plus percent of the LOUD bikers polluting your city and audibly assaulting your citizenry, the citizenry you swore to protect, are operating motorcycles with illegal aftermarket exhaust mechanism emitting in multiples the legal, total, minimally safe, 80dB(A) as mandated by the US EPA via their SAE J331a full-throttle drive-by testing procedure…a test mandated for every model of street use motorcycle to be operated on the public roadways of the United States subsequent to 1986; actually, the EPA permitted 83dB(A) from 1983-1986 but found 83dB(A) to be too loud and physiologically injurious to the general public so they reduced the legal output to 80dB(A), require a permanent label on every muffler and frame of every street-use motorcycle…a majority of the motorcycles in your city this weekend emit well over 100dB(A)…multiples (logarithmic) of what is safe and compliant…yet you have the audacity to sell your citizens safety for LOUD biker thug profit…this is shameful.
Shame on Governor Roy Cooper and his State Police for making North Carolina a haven for loud motor vehicle thugs. The State Muffler Law, § 20‑128, mandates that every motor vehicle muffler operated on the public roadways of NC meet OEM, factory specifications concerning noise emissions output…shame on the State of North Carolina as I sit here listening to these motorcycle thugs accelerating their illegally equipped motorcycles on Hwy 14 with decibel output levels that are audible for a mile or more!!!
I have written much on this subject of illegal motor vehicle noise, America’s National Plague. I will share two of those articles here should you be interested in the truth concerning the Loud Biker Culture and their thuggery as they thumb their defiant noses at our most innocent and the Law…your compromise with these narcissistic thugs is appalling and embarrassing to those who love this Nation and honor our laws and seek safety, especially for our most innocent. Shame on you Mayor and your aldermen and your city attorney and especially your police department and shame on North Carolina’s State Police and Governor Cooper for allowing the roadways of the beautiful State of North Carolina to be polluted by illegally LOUD motor vehicles while the citizenry suffers without recourse. You are all shameful in your neglect and derelict in providing the most basic of governmental responsibility i.e. protection.
2005 North Carolina Code – General Statutes § 20-128. Exhaust system and emissions control devices.
§ 20‑128.� Exhaust system and emissions control devices.
(a)������ No person shall drive a motor vehicle on a highway unless such motor vehicle is equipped with a muffler, or other exhaust system of the type installed at the time of manufacture, in good working order and in constant operation to prevent excessive or unusual noise, annoying smoke and smoke screens.
(b)������ It shall be unlawful to use a “muffler cut‑out” on any motor vehicle upon a highway.
(c)������ No motor vehicle registered in this State that was manufactured after model year 1967 shall be operated in this State unless it is equipped with emissions control devices that were installed on the vehicle at the time the vehicle was manufactured and these devices are properly connected.
(d)������ The requirements of subsection (c) of this section shall not apply if the emissions control devices have been removed for the purpose of converting the motor vehicle to operate on natural or liquefied petroleum gas or other modifications have been made in order to reduce air pollution and these modifications are approved by the Department of Environment and Natural Resources. (1937, c. 407, s. 91; 1971, c. 455, s. 1; 1983, c. 132; 1989, c. 727, s. 9; 1997‑443, s. 11A.119(a); 2000‑134, s. 6.)
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