xingu wrote:RexRed wrote:xingu wrote:RexRed wrote:xingu wrote:RexRed wrote:Can God break his own laws?
I don't know what laws God sets for himself but he breaks the laws he sets for us.
What law in particular has God "broken"?
How about murder.
How about stealing.
Of murder and killing there is a subtle distinction drawn between them to everyone but sociopaths and liberal democrats...
What did God steal? Have you ever SEEN God murder anyone?
Have I seen it? No.
Have I read it? Yes, in the Bible.
Read it someday.
How can God steal? He tells his favorites to kill tribes and steal their animals. He orders and approves of stealing, murder and rape.
He kills people who practice a religion that does not worship him. He kills people based on their religious beliefs. By our values that is murder. It is evil.
If it is not murder or evil in God's world why is it we have to live by a higher standard of values than God? And even by living under this higher standard we are called evil. And God, in his vanity, says he may forgive us provided we worship him.
If not than go to Hell.
The old testament people with their limited spiritual abilities discerned the true will and nature of God "in their own image" rather than spirit which is God's true image. Sounds reminiscent of the same confusion of modern Biblical dogma today. Your own confusion here only demonstrates this confusion over the image of God versus that of man is still perpetuated.
The "new testament" where the spirit is made available to "all" has a different view of God. Why? Because the spirit was fulfilled within them so the image of God (spirit) is now perceived over the image of man/woman (body and soul). Even Peter demonstrated his own weakness and denials of truth prior to the dispensation of the holy spirit. It is sad to think Peter was the best the world had to offer spiritually, aside from Jesus Christ himself.
What laws are much different today from a human perspective alone? People are still killing each other with diseases spread by promiscuous sex and homosexuals are still victims of hate crimes, despite God's call to love... We still have capital punishment and migrant slaves working for peanuts to put food on the tables of others more fortunate. Why incriminate God with our own weakness when God's only desire is to deliver us as he has delivered countless others. The spirit opens our eyes to the true God and the law of liberty which reveals a heart of compassion and love, and love ultimately conquerers all.
This love is the image of God. Jesus revealed this nature of God to a world that had long been depleted of it's spiritual deposit.
This old testament picture should serve as an example of what a life void of God's image can produce, contrarily what old testament people could do with so little spirit in the face of such adversity.
Homosexuals received the same fate as adulterers so it would only stand to reason that the law was made against promiscuity and not necessarily sexuality.
Pork was considered unclean and an abomination to God just as homosexuality under the guise of promiscuity. Promiscuity is still an abomination to God today and God does not have to lift a finger for the diseases will get you long before God's wrath ever will.
John 10:10
The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.
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