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Originally Posted by Aquila
I think we have propagated a myth. I always hear men talk about various topics and then they insert the phrase, “…and because God is a gentleman…”. Really? He deep fried Sodom and Gomorrah. He drowned the entire Egyptian army. He commanded Israel to eradicate the Canaanites. He struck Uzzah dead for touching the ark. He sent plagues that decimated men, women, children, cattle, etc. He interrupted a false prophet by sending an angel bearing the sword to terrify the wayward prophet’s donkey. He took entire nations and dragged them upon the nation of Israel with “hooks in their jaws”. He flooded an entire planet of demonized hedonists. While flailing strips of leather, he flipped tables and drove money changers out of the temple. He struck Ananias and Sepphirah dead for lying. He knocked Saul off his horse and blinded him to force him to surrender and get with the destiny God had preplanned for him from before creation. Through Paul he cursed a sorcerer to blindness. And… He’s coming back in Christ Jesus with the Holy Angels in flaming fire of vengeance against His enemies. He doesn’t sound much like a “gentle” anything to me. He sounds like a GOD who knows who He is and means business. It’s a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God who DEMANDS to be recognized as sovereign LORD, SAVIOR, and CREATOR. You’ll not find a single human will that successfully withstood His sovereign will and power in the entire Bible.
Bro… you better choose what He has chosen to be… or else. The elect discover this quickly and surrender to it.
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You do understand that your last statement makes no sense in light of predestination? How can one do anything but surrender to the will of God? Predestination makes mankind like the air in a ballon. The air does not surrender to the ballon it simply goes in because there is nowhere else to go!
According to you all of those who suffered did not suffer because of what they chose rather they had no choice in the matter and therefore simply suffered because they were created to suffer!
As to not finding any example of people successfully going against the will of God in the bible i disagree. What about
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Proverbs 1:24 Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;
25 But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof:
26 I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;
27 When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.
28 Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me:
29 For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the Lord:
Luke 13: 34 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, which killest the prophets, and stonest them that are sent unto thee; how often would I have gathered thy children together, as a hen doth gather her brood under her wings, and ye would not!
2 Peter 3:9 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
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