Simple apologies, children, deceit, judgment, lies, and damnation are among the topics, today, along with more on the unchanging nature of the Bible. A writer at “Yahoo! Answers” using the ID “Ms Spin Cycle” (Level 6 with 20,245 points, a member since May 08, 2013) posted the following:
So let me get this straight. In Christianity, unrepentant sinners go to hell. But if you say you're sorry, you?
get heaven?! That's odd. Any toddler or small child, especially the beautiful little girl ones, know how to keep on doing something wrong and then say sorry and be cute to get out of trouble. But there comes a time when you have to tell the little princess that they still must be punished, that this game isn't going to work anymore. But in Christianity, the god lets people continue with this? Just so long as they say sorry, they get heaven? Even child sex traffickers? And you think this god is wise and just?
THE BATTLE AXE: The Bible is Unchanging? (03/23/2014)—(4.) For mankind the Bible is to be understood as displaying the fixed and permanent feelings and thoughts of GOD. Divine operations, sacred events, life process, eternal purpose, and intimate relationship with divinity are described using discrete elements and terms that acknowledge the flesh (e.g., appetite such as hunger, thirst, sexual cravings; sense such as hearing, seeing, touch; and emotional/mental functions such as desire, fear, imagination, recall) as well as the human frameworks of gender, space, and time. While GOD and truth are immutable, the revelation of divinity to finite beings must respond to patterns of gradual development and growth, and therefore appear as intermittent, progressive, and sequential. The living change in accordance with multiple demands for both decrease and increase. There may be unpredictable shifts in ones acceptance and rejection, distance and nearness to truth; while the truth itself is endless, everlasting, perpetual, and uninterrupted. See Deuteronomy 32: 3-4, Numbers 23: 19, Psalms 100: 1-5, Psalms 119: 142, Romans 1: 17-19 and 1st John 4: 5-7, KJV.
THE GOLDEN ARROW: Now I rejoice, not that ye were made sorry, but that ye sorrowed to repentance: for ye were made sorry after a godly manner, that ye might receive damage by us in nothing. For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death. For behold this selfsame thing, that ye sorrowed after a godly sort, what carefulness it wrought in you, yea, what clearing of yourselves, yea, what indignation, yea, what fear, yea, what vehement desire, yea, what zeal, yea, what revenge! In all things ye have approved yourselves to be clear in this matter. (2nd Corinthians 7: 9-11, KJV)
THE DOUBLE DAGGER: How Do I Repent? (05/16/2013); The “Jesus Way”? (05/17/2013); Repentance Must Come Before Resurrection (04/27/2013); Destroyed in Noah’s Flood? (04/28/2013); Unless You Repent (03/05/2013); The Childhood of Jesus? (03/06/2013); The Backslider (09/13/2012); What He Died For (09/14/2012); Chances for Change (09/15/2012); The Gospel not Logical? (09/16/2012)
“Ms Spin Cycle”, here are a few points to help you get it straight that you may have overlooked in your sincere search for Christian truth:
(1.) Genuine repentance is a spiritual operation carried out within a believer by interactions among the spirit matter from the makeup of Almighty GOD. Born again through baptism (death of ones inborn spirit, rebirth from divine DNA, so to speak), the believer must develop and “grow again” under the influence of sacred substance while still upon the earth, and subject to the same life experiences and “growing pains” of human existence as those not yet in Christ. Through the ministry of Jesus, inseparable aspects of divine makeup are received by the believer such as faith, holiness, joy, longsuffering, love, truthfulness, wisdom, and wrath against sin.
(2.) Creation displays the active presence of GOD through created beings and living creatures, continuity, diversity, and wonder. However, the power of divinity also is particularly revealed (we may say, discovered) as righteous and sovereign through Judgment. More than simply punishment, judgment features cleansing, correction, forbearance, forgiveness, healing, mercy, and eternal life.
There is a lot more to be said, correctly applied, thoroughly examined, and spiritually apprehended. (For example, (3.) The focus of divine judgment is not nasty attitudes, bad habits, occasional misdeeds, naughtiness, or warped sexual expressions. The spirit content of created beings and living creatures (that includes angels) will be examined. Sin alters and distorts ones spirit substance. Neither Christ (who presides as Judge), nor Satan (who will be destroyed) will be in a role as ones accuser. Those who come to judgment must answer only the record of their own deeds as recorded in the Lamb’s Book of Life.) Where you truly want answers from GOD, there is far more on its way. Even so, I trust this fragment will be useful. Be it unto you according to your faith.
He shall send from heaven, and save me from the reproach of him that would swallow me up. Selah. God shall send forth his mercy and his truth. (Psalms 57: 3, KJV)
THE BLACK PHOENIX
Washington, DC
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