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I just finished reading a rather strange article on the (supposed) fact that God has a WEAKNESS.

REALLY? God is EVERYTHING, omnipotent, omniscient, and the list could go on with all the attributes of God. A.W.Tozer has some excellent writings on this subject, and I have read most of them. But I have NEVER, EVER, seen ANY WEAKNESS noted in them. Nor have I read of any WEAKNESS of God in the Bible.

This WEAKNESS is (supposedly) God's love for "man".

God's salvation plan for MAN began BEFORE THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD.

Ephesians 1:4-5..."According as he hath CHOSEN US in Him BEFORE THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love: (vs.5) Having PREDESTINATED us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will."

Does this verse sound like God has a WEAKNESS by His love for His CREATION...."MAN"?

This truly shows the unrighteous thoughts that only those who call themselves "Christian" can come up with. We shouldn't even have that thought in our minds. God's love for MAN is the REASON THE JESUS CHRIST DIED ON THE CROSS OF CALVARY. This is the greatest gift God ever gave to MAN, and someone calls it a "weakness"....

God does many things that MAN cannot understand. They give credit to Satan for all the evil things done in this world. Do they not understand that Satan can do NOTHING that is not PERMITTED BY GOD? You can understand this perfectly in the Book of Job. That's the lesson we learn from Job...not just an example of someone given double rewards at the end of extreme trials and tribulations in life.

The MAIN lesson is that GOD IS ALL POWERFUL, and nothing happens that is not in the plan of God. That's why we can "rest" in Him...HE, ALONE, IS IN CHARGE. Romans 8:31-32..."What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us? (vs.32) He that spared not His own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall He (GOD) not with Him (Jesus Christ) also freely give us all things."

God's love for man is all that there is! How could this POSSIBLY be a "weakness" of God? Incredible thoughtlessness!

So, what is the purpose of Satan within the plan of God? There has NEVER been a "battle" between God and Satan. Satan was CREATED by God for the purpose that he serves in God's plan for us. Satan is not God's "adversary"....he is OURS! He is sent to test and try us....just as he was sent to try Jesus in the wilderness. BUT GOD IS IN CHARGE...even over Satan.


And this article (below, in the link) explains what you will never learn in church. Pastors will tell you that you need to defeat Satan and the evil he causes. It makes you "sick" at heart (and frightened). KNOW WHY? So you will keep coming back to "church" to learn how! ($$$$..."the love of money is the root of all evil...I Tim.6:10)

It's the same with almost all of today's "doctors"....they always diagnose you as being a little (or lot) sick....for which you will need a PILL (or other test or treatment). Any time you are on prescribed medication, you NEED TO GO BACK FOR REFILLS. For tests, you will have to come back for results....($$$$) And you can be GUARANTEED, that during "yearly physicals", the blood testing, or examination will ALWAYS result in some "abnormality" that will keep you coming back. ($$$$)

[that's why the "cholesterol" SCAM was invented...to get you on PILLS, and to take "blood tests"....to keep you coming back...$$$$] RESEARCH THE TRUTH! Cholesterol has a purpose! It is manufactured by the body to HEAL ARTERIES (among other things).

I know all this by personal experience, as I have worked in the medical profession for the major part of my life. I saw the "wizard" who was behind the curtain! (metaphorically, of course).


Back to the TRUTH about the Devil (aka Satan):


http://www.kingdombiblestudies.org/serpent/Serpent.htm


Piece of the excellent article:


Why, oh why can men not believe the simple, unvarnished Word of God? Ah, we have God's own Word for it - His positive statement that HE CREATES EVIL. "That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, THAT THERE IS NONE BESIDE ME. I am the Lord, and there is none else. I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and CREATE EVIL. I THE LORD DO ALL OF THESE THINGS" (Isa. 45:7). God creates evil! It cannot be! But here it is in the Word. What will you do with it, beloved? "We must explain it somehow," the fundamentalist says, "surely it cannot mean that God creates evil, sin, sinners, devils, or wrongdoing - it must mean that He creates physical evil - famines, pestilences, hurricanes, tornadoes, forest fires, floods, calamities, judgments, etc. which God sends upon mankind as punishment for their wickedness." Not so! The word here for "evil" is the Hebrew word "ra" which is used throughout the Old Testament to denote wickedness, sin and wrongdoing. In some five hundred passages it is so used!
For example, in Gen. 6:5 we read, "And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of his heart was only evil (ra) continually." Again, "And the Lord's anger was kindled against Israel, and He made them wander in the wilderness forty years, until all the generation that had done evil (ra) in the sight of the Lord, was consumed" (Num. 32:13). In Ps. 34:13-15 we are admonished, "Keep your tongue from evil (ra), and your lips from speaking guile. Depart from evil (ra), and do good ... the eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous, and His ears are open unto their cry. The very same word in the original is also rendered "wicked" and "wickedness" more than a hundred times. So God declares, "I form the light and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil. I the Lord do all these things!" Why should puny man attempt to shield the Almighty from the responsibility He Himself has taken? If He says He creates peace, then believe Him. If He says He creates evil, then believe that, too. Do you remember how they brought the blind man to Jesus, and as the poor fellow stood there, the disciples said to Jesus, "Master, who did sin, this man or his parents, that he should be born blind?" Jesus replied, "Neither has this man sinned, nor his parents: BUT THAT THE WORKS OF GOD SHOULD BE MADE MANIFEST IN HIM" (Jn. 9:2-3). So through the evil of blindness the glory of God was manifested in the end!

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God gave us common sense. We're suppose to USE this sense. He also gave us a brain and mind to THINK. The "body of Christ" is not a GROUP of people in ANY building. They are individuals, "drawn" by God to become believers, and each one is different and serves God's different purposes...individually. God didn't choose me in spite of my "big mouth"....He chose me BECAUSE OF IT. He wants LEADERS, and not just FOLLOWERS of a "man" who calls himself "Pastor", or who has gone to college to earn a "degree in Theology". We don't have "titles"...we just have a heart for the Lord Jesus Christ, of Whom we each are a part. All we need is our Bible to learn.

Arlene

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