All your posts preclude that God is subject to you and/or must meet with your understanding. You do not start with the premise that God is sovereign and answerable to no one.
Second, you do not account for the fact that God's ways are not your ways nor your thoughts capable of understanding His thoughts.
Third, you assume what is written is a reflection of God and not presented in a greater narrative. You assume that all that is presented is all there is to be known.
Lastly, the Bible isn't inclusive of all there is to be known and its focus is the redemption of fallen man in Christ. Everything recorded is to this end. And it is written in such a fashion that it must be searched out to be further understood. It is also written in such a manner as the natural estate of man's mind will not discover its truths. There must be a spiritual aspect of man restored to him for man to possess its meaning. There must also be given revelation by God Himself in the form of understanding and wisdom.
So while a natural man would inevitably draw the conclusions you have come to, a saved person grows in their understanding of God through revelation and through understanding that is unavailable to you. While I can never convince you of what I have just shared, I do hope God will do this for you some day.
Second, you do not account for the fact that God's ways are not your ways nor your thoughts capable of understanding His thoughts.
Third, you assume what is written is a reflection of God and not presented in a greater narrative. You assume that all that is presented is all there is to be known.
Lastly, the Bible isn't inclusive of all there is to be known and its focus is the redemption of fallen man in Christ. Everything recorded is to this end. And it is written in such a fashion that it must be searched out to be further understood. It is also written in such a manner as the natural estate of man's mind will not discover its truths. There must be a spiritual aspect of man restored to him for man to possess its meaning. There must also be given revelation by God Himself in the form of understanding and wisdom.
So while a natural man would inevitably draw the conclusions you have come to, a saved person grows in their understanding of God through revelation and through understanding that is unavailable to you. While I can never convince you of what I have just shared, I do hope God will do this for you some day.
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