Does God Have Someone for Everyone?

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Does God Have Someone for Everyone? i once got into a conversation about this... I think it's an interesting subject. Currently my view is no, God does not have someone for everyone. What I see in the Bible is an interesting combination of things. When you start in Genesis, God created one man and then one woman. They had no choice but to be married. And it appears that it was God's design for every man to have a woman, and the human race would just keep multiplying. Then sin came into the world. Things got all messed up. There were men marrying more then one woman. Then sometime around Jesus, it seems that things changed again. It seems to me that God says, if you can get married good, but if you can't it's ok because it isn't for everyone. It isn't an easy life. But then again, life isn't easy either way. Go ahead and tell me what you think.
 
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Yes, that icon at the top left of the page IS a T-Rex being lowered by crane into a Sarlacc pit.
 
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Yes, that icon at the top left of the page IS a T-Rex being lowered by crane into a Sarlacc pit.
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I'm not sure what your talking about. Anyways I just printed the link so that I can read it in depth thanks.
 
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the extra ppl who dont marry get special seats in heaven

haha

dont believe me? well why does it say there will be 144000 virgins

and...when ppl were arguing about a woman who had married 5 husbands and wondering whos wife she was going to be in heaven Jesus said it wont matter cos we'll be like angels who dont marry cos they just dont need to

so..?!
 
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Lanolin said:
the extra ppl who dont marry get special seats in heaven

haha

dont believe me? well why does it say there will be 144000 virgins

and...when ppl were arguing about a woman who had married 5 husbands and wondering whos wife she was going to be in heaven Jesus said it wont matter cos we'll be like angels who dont marry cos they just dont need to

so..?!
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Eh... Somebody else can have my special seat. I'll be at the (burp) buffet table. =^.^=
 
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If anything it could be argued after Jesus God was all for contraception/chastity/abstinence and didnt really want anyone to reproduce, since giving us eternal life meant that we just had our own God given lives to live fully instead - forever

rather than the current vicious cycle of living, reproducing, and dying and exhausting humans in the process of an evolutionary extinction survival game where nobody wins.

right?
 
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There are two existence. There is this life and then there is the next life. In this life reproduction is apart of God's plan. However in the next life it isn't.
 
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There are two existence. There is this life and then there is the next life. In this life reproduction is apart of God's plan. However in the next life it isn't.
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Actually I've thought a good bit about that.

Eternity is forever, so if we are immortal and still breeding then we would fill up and overflow any space that is anything short of infinite. But the Bible clearly gives finite physical parameters for New Jerusalem.

Also I notice God didn't tell Adam and Eve to be fruitful and multiply until they had broken the world with sin. In a perfect world you wouldn't need to replace humans because humans wouldn't be dying all the time. In a world that we broke - still funtional, but no longer perfect - you need replacements because none of them are going to last forever, not anymore.

(Side note: I heard a comedian talking about how actually God made the whole reproduction thing as punishment, so Adam and Eve would see how it felt to have their own kids disobey the way they disobeyed God.) :p

Also Jesus said we would not be going around marrying each other in Heaven.

My only question now is, where does the child come from who will lead the lion and lamb? :unsure:
 
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in this life depends on where you live, cos if it hasnt been cut short by war and ppl killing each other, MAYBE you could reproduce ...certainly Jesus never said to any of disciples...I want you all to marry and have children.

Did he tell Mary it was important to bed a man? Nope. Did he say it to Martha? Nope. Did he tell Peter he had to go back to his wife? Not even.

He did say 'feed my sheep, feed my lambs' but he was talking in the spiritual sense.

not the flesh

In the fact, flesh often gets right in the way of the spirit. But then you have this paradox of christian men and women thinking of NOTHING but the flesh and how to satisfy it. its kind of weird. If you REALLY want to have babies and touch each others private parts why not just say so instead of pretending its some kind of spiritual epiphany?
 
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I think you'll find this video by Doug Wilson on the topic to be relevant.

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With his ice cream example i couldn't help wondering what we would do if we DID ask God, "Which should I eat? Vanilla, chocolate or moose tracks ice cream?" and He replied, "Neither. You should lose some weight." :p
 
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I think you'll find this video by Doug Wilson on the topic to be relevant.

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Hmmm, I'm tempted to watch.

Calvinism and Girls? He chose your girl before you were ever born? lol
 
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^ I think I should of said. "He choose her before she did anything good or bad. Before the foundation of the world. LOL!"

For the record, I'm not a Calvinist.
 
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Seeking-Christ said:
^ I think I should of said. "He choose her before she did anything good or bad. Before the foundation of the world. LOL!"

For the record, I'm not a Calvinist.
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Neither am I. But it turns out it doesn't matter, because the video had logical arguments against soulmate theory that didn't have anything to do with Calvinism.
 
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Neither am I. But it turns out it doesn't matter, because the video had logical arguments against soulmate theory that didn't have anything to do with Calvinism.
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Thanks I'll watch or listen to it later. Currently I got other things to listen too.
 
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I was taught God has people selected for us, but never really clicked with it. And for years now have spoken against the idea on CC.
It seems to me if man is made to worship God then two people made for each other diminishes the original purpose of their existence.
And people will try to point out specific examples in the bible of God putting two people together, but that's quite rare. Nor does it qualify for creating an entire doctrine.
Adam and Eve never served as proof to me, either. If this is the start of humanity there was no other choice. Again, that is not enough to build a doctrine.
 
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@Lynx
That link made me laugh.

@EternalFire
Thanks for sharing the video. I found it very interesting. But I'll say this, I'm not a Calvinist.
 
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Seeking-Christ said:
Does God Have Someone for Everyone? i once got into a conversation about this... I think it's an interesting subject. Currently my view is no, God does not have someone for everyone. What I see in the Bible is an interesting combination of things. When you start in Genesis, God created one man and then one woman. They had no choice but to be married. And it appears that it was God's design for every man to have a woman, and the human race would just keep multiplying. Then sin came into the world. Things got all messed up. There were men marrying more then one woman. Then sometime around Jesus, it seems that things changed again. It seems to me that God says, if you can get married good, but if you can't it's ok because it isn't for everyone. It isn't an easy life. But then again, life isn't easy either way. Go ahead and tell me what you think.
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I've thought of this and I lean towards no. Now, there may be an order of perfection in terms of mate choices, but one person only? No. That would really leave one of those two SOOL if one of them decided to deviate from God's plan for their lives. But of course, Christians never do that :D
 
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God has Jesus for everyone

Otherwise, are we all on some kind of massive ark going in two by two, because, it dont seem that way
 
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