What UNIQUELY sets apart a 'work of God' from every other common event in history?

[Luke2427]

For whatever reason, my name and beliefs have been bandied about quite abit lately, and I don't know why. But I will give everyone the way I have come to understand things, and some will agree and others disagree, and I am well aware of that. Some will say "right on", and "kudos", and others will say "I need to study the bible more", or "do you want to go from emotion, or what the bible says"....yadda, yadda, yadda.....but he goes.


In eternity, when God decided to make this "orb" we call earth, He made it and hung it upon nothing(Job 26:7). Even before He made the decree, He knew full well that sin would be a part of it. And for whatever reason(s), He went ahead a made it. He knew that Lucifer would do what he did, and the angels that fell with him. But, God never coerced Lucifer, neither simply withdrew His grace from Lucifer, nor did He make Adam and Eve do what they did, but He simply allowed evil to come to pass. He knew that Jesus would come as the sacrificial Lamb that would die for us.


Now, we know that God placed the tree of knowledge of good and evil in the Garden, but I think the bible leans towards silence in regards to why. I am under the assumption....and it's merely an assumption....that by doing this, He made a way to give us a choice between good and evil.....again, the bible doesn't explicitly state why He placed it there, but it was there, they partook of it, and we got the sentence of death because of it.


God knew that evil would be part of the plan(not coming from Him, but Lucifer), because He knew what Lucifer and the 1/3 of the angels that fell with him would do. He knew that Adam and Eve would do what they did, and what the outcome for us would be.....but He never made anyone sin and transgress against Himself.

I don't think that Skandelon can affirm what you say here.

I can.

 

[Luke2427]

Luke, you use similar language all the time. This post is a good example of that, with the exception that you violate the rules when you do it...

It has nothing to do with arrogance or my thinking I'm better as a moderator. I don't even remember that I am a moderator on most occasions...I just enjoy discussing theology. When I say 'its over' that is the end of it, that simply means that I don't want to continue to beat a dead horse, or rehash something that has long been conceded. That is all. Many people makes such comments.

Once again, you are turning things personal. This is really not necessary. Stop judging others motives as you really have NO IDEA as to the motive of another and you are violating BB rules that you agreed to abide to. If you have a personal critique of me then use the PM feature, as those are the rules. I'd say the same thing even if I weren't a moderator.

First of all, I was not talking about your position as moderator on this site.

I was talking about your tendency to speak as fighter in the ring, referee and bell ringer (who rings the bell when it suits him) all at the same time.

That has nothing to do with you being a moderator on this site. It has to do with the superior language that indicates a personal belief in or at least an attempt to PORTRAY that you have a belief that you occupy some moral and intellectual high ground.

You even do it here.

You indicate your belief that you stand above me morally or at least ethically when you say "except YOU do it AND break the rules"

That smacks of "Look at me and how much more noble I am than YOU!!"

You don't realize you ever do it but you do it constantly.

Secondly, it is funny how you say that you try not to moderate the people you debate when in the VERY post when you this you say:

Stop judging others motives as you really have NO IDEA as to the motive of another and you are violating BB rules that you agreed to abide to. If you have a personal critique of me then use the PM feature, as those are the rules.

HILARIOUS!

 

[saturneptune]

HILARIOUS!

Actually you are correct. The quote "its over" reminds me of two things. One is the John Belushi quote in Animal House, and second is, when one says that, it says to me they have run out of debate material. Who is the most humble, a person who acknowledges God's sovereignty or one who does not?