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Faith 
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Message 43 of 78 (789664)
08-17-2016 6:51 PM
Reply to: Message 42 by GDR
08-17-2016 5:38 PM


Re: you have a very small God
ONE response and then I hope to leave you to your errors.
You wonder what sins your friend committed to deserve MS and cancer. Wasn't I clear that we INHERIT sins and punishments? She may personally have committed nothing to bring on her diseases.

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Faith 
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Message 45 of 78 (789668)
08-17-2016 7:08 PM
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08-17-2016 7:05 PM


Even pagan philosophers knew God's Law is slow, exact and inherited
The windmills of God grind exceeding fine.
ABE: By the way, I looked it up and found its source is pagan philosophy, which is acknowledging both that God's judgment may take a long time in coming -- The saying is actually: "The mills of God grind slowly but they grind exceeding fine" -- but exact (implying fulfillment to jot and tittle). So it's not a Christian concept, it's another of those recognitions of the Law of God by pagans, like karma that I already mentioned. God's Law is recognized by many peoples as both slow and precise. "Ancestral" sins are also mentioned in the article, implying that pagan philosophers also knew that we inherit sin.
Mills of God - Wikipedia
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Faith 
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Message 47 of 78 (789672)
08-17-2016 7:51 PM
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08-17-2016 7:30 PM


Re: you have a very small God
I guess you missed the previous post which shows that even pagan philosophers have recognized that God's Law operates in the ways you condemn from your height of superior morality.

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Message 50 of 78 (789692)
08-18-2016 1:08 AM
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08-17-2016 8:33 PM


Re: you have a very small God
You slammed the idea of divine retribution as an evil made-up Christian thing, so I thought that showing that the idea isn't merely Christian ought to make some difference.
Obviously it doesn't.
My mistake.
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Message 53 of 78 (789706)
08-18-2016 12:15 PM
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08-18-2016 11:58 AM


Re: you have a very small God
OK, Phat, then how do YOU explain the two NEW TESTAMENT scriptures I posted about Jesus Second Coming in vengeance against His enemies?
ABE: Here:
2 Thessalonians 1:6-9 Seeing it is a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you; And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels, In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ: Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power;
Revelation 14:9-10 And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand, The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb....
{I asked Phat, jar, I know your answer, I would like to hear Phat's.)
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