Kay 17:

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You are sure God's reasons for his action are good, bUT you don't know the reasons?! How is it possible?! Is Christianity a sham?! Either you know his reasons are good cos you have weighed it or you don't know at all!


Value judgements can not be made in ignorance with due respect.

God Knows What We Don't Know
June 3, 2013

"I know, O LORD, that thy judgments are right, and that thou in faithfulness hast afflicted me" (Psalm 119:75).

One of the most perplexing aspects of the Christian life is trying to understand God's purpose when defeat or affliction comes into our lives, thereby hindering or even halting our ministry and testimony for Him. Many have been the servants of God who were sincerely working for Christ, seeking to obey His will and His Word as best they understood them, but then suddenly were laid aside by sickness, or had their ministries stopped by the enemies of God (sometimes even by fellow Christians), or for some other reason, and could not discern why God allowed it.

What then? When affliction comes, we must simply trust God, knowing that whatever He does is right and that our affliction is invested with His faithfulness. He is our Creator and, through Christ, has also become our heavenly Father: "Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?" (Hebrews 12:9). He knows what we don't know, therefore we can "know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose" (Romans 8:28).

This verse (Romans 8:28) is one of the most familiar and most wonderful promises in the Bible, but it is one of the most difficult to believe in time of affliction or loss. Nevertheless, it is God's promise, and "all the promises of God in him are yea, and in him Amen, unto the glory of God by us" (2 Corinthians 1:20).

God knows the end from the beginning, and in that wonderful day when Christ returns, "then shall I know even as also I am known" (1 Corinthians 13:12). Until then, we must simply trust Him. HMM

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OLAADEGBU:

Our faith is based on a foundation, not blind faith.

Kay 17: ^^
It is unfortunate Ola believes True Science is about being right, rather true science is following the right methodology, while scientific truths are provisional.

Science accepts the fraility of inductive reasoning.

OLAADEGBU:

As I said earlier, we need to trust and obey for there's no other way to be happy in Jesus but to trust and obey.

There are numerous reasons why we should trust and obey God's commandments. Obedience opens the door of God's mercies and places us on the right course and fellowship with Him. Obedience also endears believers in Christ to the heart of God. Another reason is that we enjoy God's best for us. We are prospered when we obey the Lord. When we disobey the Lord we attract God's anger and displeasure. There are many more reasons we trust and obey the Lord and even though we don't have all the reasons we are admonished to trust and obey Him and we may understand it all by and by.

Our faith is based on the evidence that is not detected with our physical senses but spiritual. True science can only be done when we have the Word of God as our presuppositions for the origins in the past and for our predictions for the present and future events.

Kay 17:

Ola, it is really tiring arguing with you. If Scientific truths are not provisional, how come we have shifted frm Newtonian physics to Einstein's ??

OLAADEGBU:

What Is Sin?
May. 26, 2013

"Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law" (1 John 3:4).

The Bible warns that "the wages of sin is death" (Romans 6:23), and "the soul that sinneth, it shall die" (Ezekiel 18:20). These are strange days, however, and there are many "that call evil good, and good evil" (Isaiah 5:20). Who is to say what is right and wrong, when even our U.S. Supreme Court implies that there are no absolutes?

God is the one who defines sin because it is He who will judge sin. The definition is multifaceted, for sin takes many forms. Most basically, as our text says, sin is the transgression of the law--not just certain laws, but all of God's law. "For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all" (James 2:10).

But there must be more than just formal obedience to God's commands, for "all unrighteousness is sin" (1 John 5:17). Furthermore, there are sins of omission, as well as sins of commission. "To him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin" (James 4:17).

When there is no specific law or command to guide our actions in a particular situation, the principle to follow is that of faith--that is, the confident inward assurance that we are doing that which honours the Lord, for "whatsoever is not of faith is sin" (Romans 14:23).

There is much more that could be noted, but it is clear that no one could ever measure up even to these demands, "for all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God" (Romans 3:23). All of us deserve the wages of sin, "but God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us" (Romans 5:8 ). Now "the righteousness of God without the law is manifested. . . . Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ" (Romans 3:21-22). HMM

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