So God uses evil for His own ends. He can and does use suffering for His own purposes. Though there is NO evil in Him. Would I be right in saying that, "No one can understand the full extent of His sovereign plan...no one can comprehend the good and evil that He sends?"
- First, when you break one of your leg or one of your arms or when you get a disease like cancer, you need a cure and it's often painful!
- There are so many diseases which require a lot of time to cure!
- And sometimes you must fight the disease and you die!
- Think about depression which can last and last!
- Everywhere people suffer from diseases!
- In many places, people suffer the consequences of war!
- In many places, people suffer from poverty or famine!
- And because of man's action, it's getting worse and worse!
- Think about pandemics and how human governments react!
- When it's not one thing, it's another one!
- What happens when our parents die or go to prison?
- Man is responsible for his personal choices!
I think the Lord must have purposes that can only be understood from an eternal perspective.
Like suffering is temporary, but may have endless benefits.
- Second, in the case of Job, the devil was responsible by accusing Job and thus any human being of unfaithfulness or of being led by personal interests!
- There is a big difference between God's justice and human justice!
- In the case of human justice, you can forget it!
- You must not forget that we are not alone!
- There are angels!
- When the devil provokes God, the angels are watching and listening carefully!
- That's why God had to demonstrate that the devil was wrong and a liar!
Sometimes I think the devil is insane. He is God's devil, of that I'm sure!
The devil entered Judas, as a result, we were saved!
It doesn't take me long to get to the place where I say, "Okay God, it's too much for me, so I'll trust You instead, that You know what You're doing, and in the end, everything will be alright!"
- Third, if we take the case of Adam's unfaithfulness, God could have killed him all at once!
- That's what we call human justice!
- And he could have started everything again with a new couple!
- But in this case, the devil would have proved right!
- Man can live alone without God's leadership!
- Man's history keeps proving man is unable to guide himself and is a wolf for the other men and is a danger for himself!
- But then the angels could have said and done the same!
- But the majority of them stayed faithful!
- Humanity lost perfection because of Adam, Jesus had to die and offer his perfect life to serve as a ransom and give access to eternal life to faithful human beings!
- God's justice is different from human justice!
- For me the devil is a parasite!
- But he has his own logic!
- He likes power!
- He likes when people worship him!
- he behaves like human kings or political leaders when they have power!
- He is proud!
- He is jealous of God!
That His judgment is different is a good thing. I'm glad He's like He is.
I wouldn't want to be him.
- Yes, temporary just when you have to suffer an operation or a cure to get better!
- Here it is a question of putting an end to human suffering!
- Then no one will be able to discuss God's leadership!
- No one will be able to contaminate the earth!
- No more wolves!
- For me, the choice is clear!
- On the one hand, you have a parasite leading to destruction, on the other hand, the creator of the universe, the source of knowledge and wisdom leading to eternal life!
- But the choice is not clear for many!
- Yes, you are right, his judgment is completely different!
- We just have to look at his creation for that!
- Everywhere we find design and immensity: in the universe,when you look through a microscope, when you study the brain...
- Every time you open a door, you get more doors to open without any limits!
That's for sure. We are so blessed to know Him. And to think that we'll spend eternity with Him. That fact that I complain just shows my frailty. And He chooses to live in us! BTW Thanks for your teaching on Job and Daniel. They are very important books to me and you help me understand them better.
- Personally, I have never enough and I always want to know more!
- I always want to open more doors!
- My pleasure!
- I always want to study more and talk about God's word!
- There is so much to learn but time and effort are necessary!
- And it brings so much energy to go on and search more!
- And when people participate, you need to do more research and spend more time and more effort!
- But then you get even more energy!
- God is not responsible for man's or the devil's bad actions!
- But it will put an end to all of them!
- It's only a question of time!
- The problem for many is that God's time is not human time!
