Should we think that God would make something as messed up as things / people have been and are on this earth?…. Only to live for a short while and then be thrown in a hole?… What purpose could this possibly serve? … I guess a lot of people would be happy and content to say ” well that’s just life” … This nonchalant casualness and apathy does not work for me … The promise and potential for unheard of, unimagineable, experiences with the eternal life that and God wants to give us are too exciting to say the least ( And the word ‘exciting’ is really an insufficient adverb … So in my humble opinion the true treasure of it all is the fact that God gives it as a gift … Are we so ignorant that we are still asking the age old questions of why does evil exist and if there is a God, why doesn’t He intervene? … Could it be that He has intervened on a grander scale than we could ever understand or care to understand? ( ie: The good news of the gospel ) … Could it be that evil has to run its course? … And God is in a kind of hands off ( though sometimes interacting ) mode until it does run its course ( Satan destroyed )… ie: [ His permissive – perfect will ] … Could it be that God wants to show us the ugliness and fruit [ World Wars, etc ] of our dark human hearts? … Perhaps we would be more excited about the hereafter if we actually believed or were accepting of a hereafter … Completely doing away with the notion that when we die “it’s all over” … God says that He is holy and that He cannot be around Sin and He cannot be around death … And He certainly doesn’t want to be around the shenanigans of the the
human race … Don’t misunderstand me, I am not trying to say He is some kind of tough taskmaster but He does have his standards … Even if we take a quick glimpse at our society today we see that without laws and enforcing the laws we do have … chaos is rampant, plain and simple … We need to come to grips and accept the fact that we are in a fallen state … Accept the fact that there has been and currently is an ongoing struggle between good and evil … God and the Devil … And human beings are caught in the middle in this “detour of an existence” and this life being a testing ground … We must see all roads lead back to Revelation 12 and the rebellion … I don’t quite understand how anyone could think that a God who has created this wonderful universe, this wonderful solar system of ours … The wonders of the human body and the Animal Kingdom … Would create something knowing of the complete disaster that it would turn out to be … This is where what I believe enters what is called the ‘permissive’ or the ‘perfect’ will of God … ie: God works in all circumstances … The good the bad and the ugly …Friends, I would like you to know that I believe things are really rather simple with God, we either work in the spirit of life or the spirit of death and almost all decisions that we ever make somehow make a ‘bee’ line to either one … That is, either life or death … And the spirit there of … Food for thought … Referring to my comment about God creating something that is a total mess … I am pointing to the ‘gap theory’ …Also in the translation of certain words in verse 2 of Genesis 1, specifically the word ‘was‘ the earth ‘was’ without form … Being a bad translation and that the word ‘was’ should actually be ‘became’ … Suggesting that between versus 1 and 2 or at the end of Genesis 1:1 … Before the beginning of verse 2 [ The Gap Theory ] … There was an actual entire earth age lasting an unknown amount of time … Could this be the dinosaur age, the age when the fossils were made at the end of this age? …Verse 2 being the beginning of the second earth age, which we are currently living in … The third one is to be the millennial reign of Christ … the 1000 years … After His second coming … Where He will rule in the new holy city Jerusalem … Coming down out of heaven … Well wouldn’t you say this is a lot to think about? … study for yourself … No man, neither myself or anyone else is perfect … only seek God …littleraventhepoet.blog … Frank Payton …
