Hi Larrybobo,
In thinking in response to what you posted to me, I too am happy when I see family relationships being restored and I too have received of His mercy and His grace and continue to live my life by faith to the degree that I am aware of how I am to live. I too believe that TLW can be saved from the things they have believed that have become so destructive to the lives of many of their members - with men it is impossible but with God all thing are possible.
I don't think there is any need to tear out any page in the Old or N.T. - just because we find strong
opposing thoughts in our thinking about God or His relationship with those He chose and appointed to reveal His glory. The many short comings and the falling short of God's glory - shown by the lives of those recorded in the Books - have been preserved thru the ages for our sake and for our own admonition.
There is no one good but God alone - is what the good Shepherd said when the rich young ruler who had kept all the Commandments since he was a youth, asked Jesus what must he do to be saved and yet he went away grieving because He was unable to part with what was his security - to answer the Lord's call to come and follow Him.
Or we could also point out how God loved Jacob and hated Esau before they were even born, while the two infants were still yet in the womb - when neither one had done any right or any wrong - this was spoken and written - so that we might know that the choices of God stand.
The hearts and minds of men in hearing such things often rise up to hate God, to accuse Him of being evil - in really hearing such a thing they find this more than difficult to honor Him as God- having not yet come to know the truth - and that is - that God IS love. Which makes all the opposing things fit together and brings much peace to the soul, to know He is God and God IS love.
The Law is holy and the commandment is holy, righteous and good. The law was given to man not that it was able to make men perfect - it was given as a tutor and it was given - to reveal the "righteousness" of God, to mankind.
I believe that when we come to love God and to love one another the way God hopes we will ( since He does not force Himself on anyone and He has given to man a free will ) and makes known that those who seek Him will find Him - and that when we find Him - we will be changed and we will become like Him little by little and when He appears we know we will be like Him - at some point when we are changed enough - there won't be divorce any more and parents won't come to the place where they hate one another, there will be no more crying and sufferings, that come about as a result of not knowing Him just as He IS, which is how men are changed from glory to glory. His glory.
After the scribes and the Pharisees brought the woman who was caught in adultery, after they had dropped their stones and left, Jesus asked the woman, "Is there no one who condemns you?" and she answered Him, "No Lord." He then said, "Neither do I condemn you." And then He said, "Go and sin no more."
I noticed it was the Lord who intervened and came to her rescue and it was His "Words," that convicted all those who were ready to stone her- that not one of them was without sin - so that they all dropped their stones and left.
In thinking in response to what you posted to me, I too am happy when I see family relationships being restored and I too have received of His mercy and His grace and continue to live my life by faith to the degree that I am aware of how I am to live. I too believe that TLW can be saved from the things they have believed that have become so destructive to the lives of many of their members - with men it is impossible but with God all thing are possible.
I don't think there is any need to tear out any page in the Old or N.T. - just because we find strong
opposing thoughts in our thinking about God or His relationship with those He chose and appointed to reveal His glory. The many short comings and the falling short of God's glory - shown by the lives of those recorded in the Books - have been preserved thru the ages for our sake and for our own admonition.
There is no one good but God alone - is what the good Shepherd said when the rich young ruler who had kept all the Commandments since he was a youth, asked Jesus what must he do to be saved and yet he went away grieving because He was unable to part with what was his security - to answer the Lord's call to come and follow Him.
Or we could also point out how God loved Jacob and hated Esau before they were even born, while the two infants were still yet in the womb - when neither one had done any right or any wrong - this was spoken and written - so that we might know that the choices of God stand.
The hearts and minds of men in hearing such things often rise up to hate God, to accuse Him of being evil - in really hearing such a thing they find this more than difficult to honor Him as God- having not yet come to know the truth - and that is - that God IS love. Which makes all the opposing things fit together and brings much peace to the soul, to know He is God and God IS love.
The Law is holy and the commandment is holy, righteous and good. The law was given to man not that it was able to make men perfect - it was given as a tutor and it was given - to reveal the "righteousness" of God, to mankind.
I believe that when we come to love God and to love one another the way God hopes we will ( since He does not force Himself on anyone and He has given to man a free will ) and makes known that those who seek Him will find Him - and that when we find Him - we will be changed and we will become like Him little by little and when He appears we know we will be like Him - at some point when we are changed enough - there won't be divorce any more and parents won't come to the place where they hate one another, there will be no more crying and sufferings, that come about as a result of not knowing Him just as He IS, which is how men are changed from glory to glory. His glory.
After the scribes and the Pharisees brought the woman who was caught in adultery, after they had dropped their stones and left, Jesus asked the woman, "Is there no one who condemns you?" and she answered Him, "No Lord." He then said, "Neither do I condemn you." And then He said, "Go and sin no more."
I noticed it was the Lord who intervened and came to her rescue and it was His "Words," that convicted all those who were ready to stone her- that not one of them was without sin - so that they all dropped their stones and left.