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There were many Gentiles knowledgeable about the Old Testament and the ways of Israel at the time of the writing of Hebrews. Proselytes came to the temple in Jerusalem. Wise men from eastern lands, possibly Persia, came to baby Jesus to worship Him and bring gifts. Chapter 3 begins with...

God never wills for sin to happen. God never issues commandments, then wills that the commandments be disobeyed. Thus, you stretch God being the first cause into God wanting and causing sin to occur. If this were true, God would be contradictory to condemn and punish sin. The afflictions that...

Where the problem exists seems to be in the definition of “sovereignty”. Sovereign refers to the independent authority and unquestionable rulership of a king. Historically, it never means that a king controls every atom, thought, and action happening in the kingdom. The king rules by issuing...

You cannot have two causes of sin. You say God is the cause of ALL things. Then you say sin is done by the sinner. You contradict yourself.

So you, guided by your Calvinist theories, claim that when a person sins, God is the cause of the sinning,

Again, you contradict scripture. Faith/believing is not salvation by works. Faith is the opposite of works. Galatians 2:16 knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but by faith in Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in...

So according to your Calvinist philosophy, when a person sins, God wills the sin to happen.

In December 2007, Obama was implied to be the messiah / anointed one. https://www.politico.com/story/2007/12/messianic-rhetoric-infuses-obama-rallies-007281 In a giant Sunday afternoon rally suffused with Christian – and at times messianic – rhetoric, Barack Obama made his largest-scale pitch...

Exodus 8:32 And Pharaoh hardened his heart at this time also, neither would he let the people go. James 1:13 Let no one say when he is tempted, “I am tempted by God”; for God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does He Himself tempt anyone.

This has nothing to do with God wanting sin to happen, it is about the punishment of sin.

Your quote has nothing to do with God sovereignly bring about disobedience to His commandments. Quite the opposite, in fact. God was weary of Ahab disobeying His commandments. So the good prophet Micaiah declared that God permitted a lying spirit to influence wicked king Ahab’s ungodly...

If you ever became a pastor, and a mom and dad told you their daughter had just been raped and killed, would you reply, “It is for God’s purposes and His glory that your daughter was raped and killed.” — ???

If your philosophical, unbiblical statement was true, then there is no such thing as sin. But sin does exist and it is against God, not for Him. The works of the devil are not for God’s purposes and glory. If they were, Jesus would not have come to destroy them. Israel sacrificing their...

You have evaded my request. I asked for scripture that says God brings it about that His commands are disobeyed. You have not proven that God ever wants or wanted sin to happen. God did indeed create darkness and evil, which refers to Lucifer when he fell and became Satan. But God Himself is...

Thus certain things that were permitted to be happening were not for God’s purposes and His glory, but were the works of the devil, which Jesus came to destroy.

Thank you for sharing that, deacon Rob! Faith must be tested to prove itself and to increase in quality. Even when we hate what is happening, we will love the ultimate outcome, if we forcibly keep trusting in God.

Quote me scripture that God sovereignly brings about that His commandments be disobeyed for His purposes and His glory. A house divided against itself cannot stand. If God sovereignly brings about everything that happens, why did Jesus destroy the works of the devil?

And when God stops something from happening, that shows He was not pleased with it, although He patiently endured it. For example, when Israel was sacrificing their firstborn to pagan idols. This abomination was not pleasing to God. God never wills that His commandments be disobeyed. So, not...

What God allows is not necessarily what God wills. If something is happening, especially tragic disasters, God may not be pleased, and might bring an end to it. We should not assume that everything that occurs has God’s stamp of approval on it. While God is in control, often that control...

We may pray fervently for something, trusting and praising God with all our might — but we do not receive what we prayed for. If the thing we prayed for was extremely serious, and not getting what we prayed for leaves us devastated, disoriented, and depressed, our faith in God can be shaken...