In the beginning

[Botz]

Muktuk...

1. Yes but is somthing perfect capable of sinning? If man was made in gods image than man should be perfect, right?

2. And when I say come why doesn't god come out public i mean why doesnt he come out with a booming voice across the earth that everybody can hear and just say wich belief is true, instead of letting people choose the wrong religions or beliefs and go to hell?

1. Perfect but not an automaton...obviously there is some far deeper worth in the heart of G-d for people that can choose to live righteously and overcome their obvious sinful inclinations and fleshly desires..than making a perfect being that does not have any choice in the life they lead. King Solomon wrote...

"Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.

For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil."

2. Trying to present a better method to G-d in which He can run the Universe and instruct mankind would be a somewhat foolish endeavour a bit like a roadsweeper telling an astronaut how to fly a spaceship. Far better to try and understand G-d and His ways from the basis that He loves us and wants the best and can be trusted 100%...even when we cannot understand His ways.

The prophet Isaiah put it this way...

Seek ye the LORD while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near:

Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.

For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD.

For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.

[Dad Ernie]

Greetings Muktuk,

Yes but is somthing perfect capable of sinning? If man was made in gods image than man should be perfect, right? And when I say come why doesn't god come out public i mean why doesnt he come out with a booming voice across the earth that everybody can hear and just say wich belief is true, instead of letting people choose the wrong religions or beliefs and go to hell?

God only created ONE that was "perfect in all his ways" and that was "Lucifer". On the 7th day of creation, God looked out upon all His hands had made and said that it was "good". Never has God said that man was "perfect". If you were to study your scriptures, you would know this.

Are you God Muktuk? According to the Word of God, Jesus was made a "little lower than the angels", upon His incarnation. When we examine Christ, the man, He was "perfect", and He alone was without sin. He only did that which He saw the Father doing. Do you do that Muktuk? I'll bet if you were examined in the light of the Word of God, you would be found utterly and totally guilty of dozens, hundreds, perhaps millions of sins. You are of absolutely NO VALUE to God in your present condition except as fuel for the Lake of Fire.

I am sure if you contemplate that long enough, you will recognize that the alternative is much preferred, and that is to humble yourself before the Almighty God and turn your life over to Him.

Blessings,

Dad Ernie

[Guest Muktuk]

If I am nothing but firewood to the lord then he doesnt seem like too good of a father to me. If your son does something wrong, even a million things wrong, never would you want him to burn for eternity in a lake of fire, you would love him too much.

[ayin jade]

There is a better way to look at this.

Man has sinned. The penalty for that sin is eternal punishment in the Lake of Fire. Mankind goes before the judge, who pronounces you guilty of sin. The judge calls out stop, let my Son take your place so that you might be declared free of that punishment. It is your choice to choose.

This is what happened. God loves you so much, that He gave His own Son to take your place, as well as the place of everyone else. Jesus paid the debt, freeing us from sin. Yet just as the prisoner in the above analogy has the choice to accept the sacrifice of the judge's son, so too does every person on this planet have the choice to accept or refuse that ultimate gift.

You are a sinner. Sin condemns you to eternal punishment. The Lord offers you a second chance at eternal life. Will you accept it? The choice is yours.

[Botz]

John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

Joh 3:17 For God didn't send his Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world should be saved through him.

It is true that we are headed for destruction unless we repent...but G-d loves everyone of us and desires that we avail ourselves of His salvation and gain eternal life.

G-d is called Father...but He is also Saviour,King and Judge...we need to know Him as the Father and the Saviour and the King or we will come before Him in His capacity of Judge and He will have no choice but to tell us to depart because He never knew us.

[Guest idied2]

1.In the beginning of the universe what was there? FATHER GOD AND CHRIST CREATING IT.

2.Was god around before the universe for infinity? BEFORE CREATION THERE WAS NO WHERE TO BE AROUND BUT THE SPIRIT THAT IS GOD WAS THERE.

3. Where was he?THE SAME PLACE HE IS NOW.

4. Where is he now, HE HASN'T MOVED

5. why wont he come out into the open and fix the earths problems. YOU WOULD BE INSINERATED INSTANTLY IN YOUR FAITHLESS CONDITION IN HIS HOLY PRESENCE. THE PROBLEMS OF THE EARTH ARE HIS PURPOSE. NOTHING IS OUT OF PLACE.

6. Where was his infinite love when the tsunami killed hundreds of thousands of humans in asia? ALSO PART OF HIS PURPOSE.

7. Where was he for the millions of people that die of cancer every year? ALL PART OF HIS PURPOSE.

8. Or the captured soldiers being tortured to death by the taliban? STILL PART OF HIS PURPOSE.

9. Did he spare them? NO

10. Why are there so many cries for help to a god that hasn't solved anything? THE CRIES ARE IN ANGER AROGANCE AND UNBELIEF. HE HAS SOLVED EVERYTHING. THE DEVILS THAT PLAGUED CREATION ARE GONE AND THOSE WHO WOULD RECEIVE CORRECTION IN LOVE FOR THEIR FATHER ALL SLEEP IN PEACE. FOR YOU IT IS TO COME. NEVER THE LESS IT IS FINISHED.

11. Why are there sick starving children? BECAUSE THEIR FAITHLESS WICKED PARENTS AND LEADERS HAVE SACREFICED THEM TO DESTRUCTION. AS DID THE LEADERS OF SODOM AND GAMORA OF OLD.

12. It is said that he flooded the earth once, he removed the sinful humans, but why did he make us with evil in our hearts SO THAT CHRIST COULD SAVE US. IT WAS ALL CREATED BY CHRIST AND FOR CHRIST.

13. if us being evil angered him so? SO STOP BEING EVIL AND COME HOME IN LOVE. HE SENT HIS SON TO SHOW YOU THE WAY TO GIVE HIS LIFE FOR YOU. WOULN'T YOU BE ANGRY IF THEY WOULDN'T LISTEN?

14. I have tried, asked, begged to God for a sign that he is there, just a simple sign. I have gotten no sign, no way to know if there is anything to wait for. THOSE WHO COME TO GOD MUST BELIEVE THAT HE IS. AN EVIL AND ADULTEROUS GENERATION SEEK AFTER A SIGN.

15. What if there is no god? FOR THOSE WHO DO NOT BELIEVE. THERE IS NO GOD AND THEY WILL JUST CEISE TO EXIST.

16 When you die would you simply ceise to exist? ONLY IF YOU DON'T BELIEVE.

17 If there is a god were we made for his amusement? AMUSEMENT IS A MAN MADE EVIL. GOD CREATED MAN TO BECOME ONE WITH HIM THROUGH HIS SON JESUS CHRIST FOR FELLOWSHIP.

18 And when he got bored of us did he just leave? IF HE LEAVES YOU DISIPATE AND CEISE TO EXSIST.

19 I want to believe in something but I just cannot believe with no confirmation. Faith is belief in the un-believable, the trusting of the supreme being that has given no evidence of his existence. I wish I had faith, something to believe before I die, but as of now I just don't know.

In CHRIST JESUS

[Guest Muktuk]

Why does god punish the innocent and not the guilty? It is not a childs fault what their parents do.

[ayin jade]

We are all guilty until redeemed by Jesus. We all fall short of the glory of God. He is not punishing the innocent.

Please look at your own life. Have you ever lied? Been angry? Hit someone? Taken anything that was not yours....even a small pen? The smallest sin condemns us. We have chosen to sin. God has given us a way out. God is showing undeserved mercy on us. When He could have just wiped us all out, He has chosen to give us a chance for salvation. God isnt punishing the innocent. God is forgiving the guilty. He is granting mercy.

[Guest Muktuk]

And what of a baby that dies of a terminal disease before it can commit sin?

[ayin jade]

People are divided on this, but I personally believe that a child who dies like that, or who dies like my husband's little sister so very long ago, are in heaven. We can trust in the Lord's mercy.