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Samuel1991
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Why God did not send Jesus Christ on Earth before/first instead of choosing a people (Hebrews) , creating Old Testament before and only after that He sent Jesus Christ on Earth. Why ?
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Wesrock
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He wished to woo mankind back to Him, which involved changing hearts.
Or, another example, Israel and mankind was like a child that needed God’s guidance to reach a certain level of maturity to receive the fullness of revelation.
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GLam8833
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Good reply, God’s work is high above ours as
the Heavens are high above the earth!! We
can only marvel that WE are in a position to
accept God’s offer of Salvation, altho we are
NOT His originally chosen people!!
“In the Fullness of time” God sent Jesus!!
See Gal. 4:4
the Heavens are high above the earth!! We
can only marvel that WE are in a position to
accept God’s offer of Salvation, altho we are
NOT His originally chosen people!!
“In the Fullness of time” God sent Jesus!!
See Gal. 4:4
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Crusaderbear
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The stage had to be set. First get as many as possible to believe in a single God, set up rules to prepare their minds to accept God, then send Jesus to get them on the right path, and keep them there.
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grannymh
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The naked truth, back in the early days of women’s rights and yes, I am that old – is that getting equal pay for equal work is a valid goal – and yes, I did have a vice-president tell me that his wife did not understand him.
I am not exactly sure when Catholics popped up with the idea that women should be Catholic priests. On the surface, there are sincere reasons. What I see now is that “sincere” is the frosting on a cake that could sink a ship. For example. Has anyone considered the role of the Catholic Sacrament of Baptism? There is true equality between women and men regarding the reception of this Catholic Sacrament. Those CAF participants who like to dig deep – Would anyone venture into the basic equality in the Sacrament of Baptism and then determine if that equality is needed in the Catholic Sacrament of Holy Orders? (CCC 1536 and following.)
I am not exactly sure when Catholics popped up with the idea that women should be Catholic priests. On the surface, there are sincere reasons. What I see now is that “sincere” is the frosting on a cake that could sink a ship. For example. Has anyone considered the role of the Catholic Sacrament of Baptism? There is true equality between women and men regarding the reception of this Catholic Sacrament. Those CAF participants who like to dig deep – Would anyone venture into the basic equality in the Sacrament of Baptism and then determine if that equality is needed in the Catholic Sacrament of Holy Orders? (CCC 1536 and following.)
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hazcompat
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He came in the “fullness of time” (Galatians 4:4).
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Tyrel
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Possible reasons vary, many of them varying in degrees of plausibility, and almost certainly there was a conjunction of reasons only some fraction of which we will be able to discern. One reason may be that the human population index exploded around that time, so that although human beings have been around for more than a hundred thousand years (give or take), about 98% of the human beings who have ever lived have lived in the last two thousand years (see ourworldindata.org/world-population-growth/). Christ came just prior to the human population explosion and was situated in a time and place where his message would feasibly reach the greatest number of people. It wasn’t so pre-historic or primitive as to be inevitably obscured through history, but also not so late as to be effectively provincial in its sphere of influence. It was late enough that we had developed the discipline of history, had created the written record (etc.), but not so late to the party that we already had camera phones. The fullness of time indeed.
Christ appears at a moment of history which can be empirically investigated, and we can be reasonably certain that the basic outline of Christ’s life is historical - but he is not so evident in all respects to the historian that the historian cannot avoid being Christian. All the reasons God has for being relatively hidden may also motivate his incarnating himself on that historical periphery, where he is accessible for anyone willing to seek, but not so forcefully evident that nobody can run away.
God may also have known how people in any age would have reacted to him, and so knew that at no time (earlier or later) would as many people have accepted him in the long run if he came to us then as if he came precisely when (and where, and how) he did.
Christ appears at a moment of history which can be empirically investigated, and we can be reasonably certain that the basic outline of Christ’s life is historical - but he is not so evident in all respects to the historian that the historian cannot avoid being Christian. All the reasons God has for being relatively hidden may also motivate his incarnating himself on that historical periphery, where he is accessible for anyone willing to seek, but not so forcefully evident that nobody can run away.
God may also have known how people in any age would have reacted to him, and so knew that at no time (earlier or later) would as many people have accepted him in the long run if he came to us then as if he came precisely when (and where, and how) he did.
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