Am all for people posting on the thread and happy for it., but please do your due diligence to read first before you post what you interpret what I've said. God is 100% in control BUT He has given control to us to walk by faith or to walk by sight. When we walk by sight., we miss the truth and we don't walk it out. God never forces us to believe Him. We have that choice and it was God who created us with a choice.
They had mercy and grace in the Old covenant but not like we have it today in the new covenant post Cross. Jesus has come and is in us now. That was not the way it was in the Old covenant. People did not have the Holy Spirit like all of us Christians do today with the seal and promise He will never leave us. I'll endeavor to re post to clarify the error made by posters who have not read in context or the full post regarding their comments.
The book of Job is put there for a reason., for our learning. The Bible is all God's Word - God breathed for us from Genesis to Revelation., and for our learning. It's our job to look to the Holy Spirit as we read the Bible to have it's truths properly and rightly divided for us. The whole Bible is God breathed and for us for doctrine, for reproof for correction and discipline., for showing us how to live.. 2 Timothy 3:15-17
[SUP]15 [/SUP]And how from your childhood you have had a knowledge of and been acquainted with the sacred Writings, which are able to instruct you and give you the understanding for salvation which comes through faith in Christ Jesus [through the [SUP][a][/SUP]leaning of the entire human personality on God in Christ Jesus in absolute trust and confidence in His power, wisdom, and goodness].
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16 [/SUP]Every Scripture is God-breathed (given by His inspiration) and profitable for instruction, for reproof andconviction of sin, for correction of error and discipline in obedience, [and] for training in righteousness (in holy living, in conformity to God’s will in thought, purpose, and action),
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17 [/SUP]So that the man of God may be complete and proficient, well fitted and thoroughly equipped for every good work.
Unsaved people can read the Bible and not understand the hidden meanings through the so called contradictions they have heard or even read in the Bible. So they read it according to their own understanding and totally misrepresent IT and God. They hate it because God sounds like a tyrant and a killer and murderer and a psychopath... And so they refuse to come. They don't believe He is the God of love and truth and justice. They call the God of the Bible evil.
Anyone of US can read the Bible and force it to say what we believe as well. We can read it based on our OWN experiences and hurts in life. That is where we MUST allow the Holy Spirit to heal us and show us the truth in our new man. We are called to reckon ourselves (our old man) to be dead and our new man to be alive. We are called to see Jesus. And we have the Holy Spirit to point us all the time to Jesus.
The pains and hurts we have experienced in life come because we live in a sinful ugly rotten world. Adam was the first human who had everything he and his wife Eve could ever have needed or wanted. Yet even Adam and Eve with EVERY OPPORTUNITY to succeed TOTALLY FAILED. They both allowed the enemy of their souls to lie and steal from them the very gifts God freely gave them.
We have every opportunity in Christ to walk in the victory He won for us. Why do so many of us fail? For myself.... I saw God through the lens of my own understanding not allowing the Holy Spirit to interpret Jesus for me. I was in a mess and headed for a bigger mess and probably even would have died if I hadn't allowed the Holy Spirit to give me a do over in my understanding of Jesus.
I became a willing participant to see Jesus from the Holy Spirit's point of view and found it is He who leads us all into the truth., not me and my flimsy understanding or experiences. And so I come to CC to share what I've been learning about. That Jesus LOVES us and no longer deals with us according to our own understanding. He calls us to live a new and living way. So praise the LORD for He is GOOD., His mercies endure forever!!!
They had mercy and grace in the Old covenant but not like we have it today in the new covenant post Cross. Jesus has come and is in us now. That was not the way it was in the Old covenant. People did not have the Holy Spirit like all of us Christians do today with the seal and promise He will never leave us. I'll endeavor to re post to clarify the error made by posters who have not read in context or the full post regarding their comments.
The book of Job is put there for a reason., for our learning. The Bible is all God's Word - God breathed for us from Genesis to Revelation., and for our learning. It's our job to look to the Holy Spirit as we read the Bible to have it's truths properly and rightly divided for us. The whole Bible is God breathed and for us for doctrine, for reproof for correction and discipline., for showing us how to live.. 2 Timothy 3:15-17
[SUP]15 [/SUP]And how from your childhood you have had a knowledge of and been acquainted with the sacred Writings, which are able to instruct you and give you the understanding for salvation which comes through faith in Christ Jesus [through the [SUP][a][/SUP]leaning of the entire human personality on God in Christ Jesus in absolute trust and confidence in His power, wisdom, and goodness].
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16 [/SUP]Every Scripture is God-breathed (given by His inspiration) and profitable for instruction, for reproof andconviction of sin, for correction of error and discipline in obedience, [and] for training in righteousness (in holy living, in conformity to God’s will in thought, purpose, and action),
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17 [/SUP]So that the man of God may be complete and proficient, well fitted and thoroughly equipped for every good work.
Unsaved people can read the Bible and not understand the hidden meanings through the so called contradictions they have heard or even read in the Bible. So they read it according to their own understanding and totally misrepresent IT and God. They hate it because God sounds like a tyrant and a killer and murderer and a psychopath... And so they refuse to come. They don't believe He is the God of love and truth and justice. They call the God of the Bible evil.
Anyone of US can read the Bible and force it to say what we believe as well. We can read it based on our OWN experiences and hurts in life. That is where we MUST allow the Holy Spirit to heal us and show us the truth in our new man. We are called to reckon ourselves (our old man) to be dead and our new man to be alive. We are called to see Jesus. And we have the Holy Spirit to point us all the time to Jesus.
The pains and hurts we have experienced in life come because we live in a sinful ugly rotten world. Adam was the first human who had everything he and his wife Eve could ever have needed or wanted. Yet even Adam and Eve with EVERY OPPORTUNITY to succeed TOTALLY FAILED. They both allowed the enemy of their souls to lie and steal from them the very gifts God freely gave them.
We have every opportunity in Christ to walk in the victory He won for us. Why do so many of us fail? For myself.... I saw God through the lens of my own understanding not allowing the Holy Spirit to interpret Jesus for me. I was in a mess and headed for a bigger mess and probably even would have died if I hadn't allowed the Holy Spirit to give me a do over in my understanding of Jesus.
I became a willing participant to see Jesus from the Holy Spirit's point of view and found it is He who leads us all into the truth., not me and my flimsy understanding or experiences. And so I come to CC to share what I've been learning about. That Jesus LOVES us and no longer deals with us according to our own understanding. He calls us to live a new and living way. So praise the LORD for He is GOOD., His mercies endure forever!!!
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