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Deo_Volente
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Grace & Peace!
Note: This is not the same question as, “how do we accept that God participates actively in death, and still manage to call him deathless.” That question is easy to answer–we can’t and we don’t. We cannot believe that God traffics in death and victimage and also believe that God desires not the death of a sinner. Either he does not desire the sinner to die (and therefore the death of the sinner is the “natural” result of his or her sin), or he does desire the sinner to die (and therefore, he causes the sinner to die).
Again, though–the question before you is how do we interpret the plagues of Egypt in light of the Resurrection which reveals that God heals wounds and does not cause them?
You are free to believe that God traffics in death, disease, plagues and destruction in order to entice us to love him. I hope you understand, however, that the Good News does not corroborate such a belief. It is precisely because it does not corroborate such a belief that it is the Good News!
Under the Mercy,
Mark
All is Grace and Mercy! Deo Gratias!
Irish, here is my challenge to you: how do we interpret these things in the light of the Resurrection?God warned Adam and Eve what would happened if they ate the fruit, and it came to pass not only for them, but for every human.
God brought the flood upon the world and only eight were saved.
God brought fiery destruction upon Sodom and Gommorah, and even Lot’s wife suffered the fate of being turned into a pillar of salt when she disobeyed God’s command.
God sent the plagues upon Egypt.
God sent His Angel to Egypt to smite the first born sons.
God will allow a Great Tribulation and a Great Apostasy leading up to Jesus’ Return.
Note: This is not the same question as, “how do we accept that God participates actively in death, and still manage to call him deathless.” That question is easy to answer–we can’t and we don’t. We cannot believe that God traffics in death and victimage and also believe that God desires not the death of a sinner. Either he does not desire the sinner to die (and therefore the death of the sinner is the “natural” result of his or her sin), or he does desire the sinner to die (and therefore, he causes the sinner to die).
Again, though–the question before you is how do we interpret the plagues of Egypt in light of the Resurrection which reveals that God heals wounds and does not cause them?
You are free to believe that God traffics in death, disease, plagues and destruction in order to entice us to love him. I hope you understand, however, that the Good News does not corroborate such a belief. It is precisely because it does not corroborate such a belief that it is the Good News!
Under the Mercy,
Mark
All is Grace and Mercy! Deo Gratias!