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AndyF
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I don’t understand the result of Jesus’s decisions in these three cases.
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In Mark 5:10 Jesus can find every reason for granting a grace to an evil spirit who had rejected God to His face and who has by now accumulated numerous blasphemies and offenses in complete disregard to any laws, and, .......... *who makes no promise to better his state* and who Jesus knows will continue on in this way.
But in Luke 16,24, can find no such grace to a fallible being who had erred, finds himself in an unnatural element, and was created in the image of God, and would probably would mend his ways grateful for the grace he has just received if it were given.
Remember both are in a punitive state, and some judgement has already been passed. One was at such a level that he was in the upper echelon of God's beings, and should have known better, and the other had to strive for his maturing faith and was that much further from the image of God, and had to fend off the onslaughts of the very beings that seem to still retain a special favor of Diety.
Further, why would God even accept satan's offer in Job's case? I mean isn't their a breach of trust here? Shouldn't man feel confident that God is working behind the scenes for his well being, if indeed God and man were tied in that link that we are lead to believe exists?
Your thoughts.
Andy