2007-04-19 11:00:46 · 5 answers · asked by jay or 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
God is Love.
How much of God do you have?
2007-04-19 11:17:33 · answer #1 · answered by Ernest S 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God, like any good parent loves us unconditionally, He loves us enough to let us make our own choices even if we might mess up.
Humanity has chosen to ignore God and reject His wisdom throughout history, and in effect told God to "get lost". God isn't going to force us to obey Him, nor is he going to pick up after us each time we mess up. He is giving us the opportunity to learn from our mistakes, even if we get hurt.
He sent Jesus to show us it is possible to live a perfect life, and more importantly, to pay the price for human sin. He gives us the opportunity and the strength to start to change into the people we were always meant to be.
The problem is we have to admit we were wrong, accept Jesus for who he is and make the effort to change for the better. The harder part for us is limiting our free will to obey God's laws rather than our own negative desires for wealth and power.
2007-04-19 21:07:29 · answer #2 · answered by Nebulous 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God sees us only as God created us--whole, perfect, and complete--within, and part of, Itself. God knows we can only create as God creates...the messes are illusion, thus have no validity.
2007-04-19 14:19:11 · answer #3 · answered by Sky in the Grass 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In Ephesians it is made abundantly clear that the only reason God saves anyone is because of His sovereign Grace and mercy. It says it is according to the god pleasure of His will. God has ones He has chosen to come to Him. He invites all but only those whose hearts have been regenerated will come to Him. As Jesus said in John 6 "No one can come to Me unless the Father draws them." In our natural stae we are dead in sin and cannot choose God and cannot choose to do the right thing. Our wills are enslaved to our fallen natures. That is why in Romans God says that by nature man is an object of wrath. In Ephesians God says we are "dead in sins." This is why the Gospel of Pure Grace must be preached- that we are by nature God's enemies and doomed to destruction. We must run to Christ to save us. Once God moves on our hearts and gives us life (that is regeneration) then and only then can we see our need and run to Christ to be saved. Salvation is completely of God. But this generation has messed up the preaching of God's truth. The law must be preached to show people the vileness and depths of their sin and that they cannot come to God of their own will. They must confess their sin and desperate need and then run to Christ. He will be merciful to those who come to Him. It is like a rich man opening his house for a great feast. The door is wide open but only those whose eyes have been opened to see the feast - to see their desperate need for Christ will go in. The rest will continue to feed on the garbage scraps they can find. God works through the true and accurate preaching of His Gospel so that He gets all the Glory and so NO FLESH can glory in His presence. God bless!
2014-11-21 03:43:03 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
G R A C I O U S.
M E R C I F U L.
Because HE wants to. Those who give their lives to Him, who acknowledge they have sinned against Him, He sets them free through Jesus Christ, when they believe that He died and rose again, and confess their sins to Him. (Romans 10)
God is FULL of grace! And as the Bible says, it is His lovingkindness that leads us to repentence!
2007-04-19 11:11:30 · answer #5 · answered by Mandolyn Monkey Munch 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋