Since you bring this up, it may at least be very therapeutic for you to give this a try.
When you feel hurt or unfairly treated, powerless against a situation, perhaps crawl into bed and just feel like as young as you want, suck your thumb, use a binky, whatever floats your boat, talking to a ‘ideal father’ as your daddy about the situations that seem too much for you to handle, anything from the past that has cause hurt any raw deals life has handed you.
Nitpick: I think you mean the signal to noise ratio is low, that is, little signal, lots of noise. A high signal to noise ratio would have lots of signal, little noise.
Ah, the dope, where no nit is to small.
The problem with A&E is that even if they have free will, they did not have the knowledge to make an informed choice - and therefore were actually innocent, just like a baby who accidentally sets something on fire by knocking down a candle.
Does Satan have free will? Either he does not or is very stupid. Since Satan knows the power of God full well, and supposedly knows that Revelations is true, he know he is going to lose. Why not surrender?
Satan is learning God’s way by trying his way first, just as we are, though Satan has more power then us and got us involved in his plan.
Satan now sees the coming destruction pretty much like the alcoholic does. Hitting rock bottom, lake of fire and all, and has to abandon his way but has to also walk through it IMHO.
Then Jesus didn’t come to save all men as was taught. That means God did not love all His children just a few chosen ones, so the burden is on God, not the child. A good father loves all his children, and if he knows the children as God should, then he would help the child instead of punishing them for not knowing, or a fault that he put in them at creation.
So your God lets the monster He created destroy His innocent children, Like a child molester does (in a way), and lets the monster live for many centuries so he can harm more and more of them…sorry but that doesn’t seem logical to me that an all knowing loving father would do!!!
Jesus came to save all, even the children of the devil, and IMHO even the devil himself. Though not all children at the same time but it is a refining process where the youngest children are saved first. Here is my take on it:
We are intermixed and intertwined with the devil and his children, though we are much ‘younger’ and weaker. If God was dealing with the devil directly, he would let the devil’s ways lead the devil into the lake of fire, as this is the type of situation that the devil to fall into needs to turn the devil around.
But if the devil goes so do his children, and if the devil and his children go so do many of God’s much younger children. In the Lake of Fire, though the devil may stand it for a time, the younger ones could not and in God’s mercy God will not allow it yet.
Since we are intertwined with children of the devil and can not stand that path that the devil is taking God will not allow that path till we (God’s youngest children) can be removed. God is ‘artificially’ stopping hell on earth because of his youngest children.
After the youngest children are removed (aka raptured) then God can remove this protection and the world will become hell, which is OK till the older children (children of the devil) want to come back home too, after which God will allow the whole thing to fall into the lake of fire, where eventually the devil will see his error and repent IMHO.
Till then the devil has it pretty good as long as he has the children of God believing and worshiping him as they are his protection and the reason the devil is fighting God. We are basically being used as human shields for the devil.
Why does not God stop it. It is because He needs the devil to realize (learn) the correct way, and God stepping in will not do that. The devil’s own path is creating the hell he will face and then he will need help for God to get him out of the mess he created thus ending Satan’s rule and his re-acceptance into the family of God IMHO.
There is a place in the NT where Jesus is quoted as saying to a woman who needed help,I came only for the house of Israel. That doesn’t sound like he came to save every one, and he sure didn’t care for the Pharisees! Where did you get your theology from?..It seems you have your own, that is fine for you, but it doesn’t make sense to me. Seems contradictory to a lot of what you seem to describe your God to be. On one hand he is love and another he plays cruel games with a monster he created!
Jesus had to learn who He was and what He was to do on this earth. Jesus the man did not know everything, that is clear in scriptures, stated at least 3 times directly.
Which makes sense, Jesus had to overcome as we are required to overcome, if Jesus had perfect knowledge then our struggle, with imperfect knowledge would be harder and we could take credit. Jesus had to operate on faith as we are to do.
Jesus by healing this woman showed that Jesus didn’t just come for the Jews. His statement after the resurrection makes His destiny clear - make deciples of all nations - Jesus did not just come to save the Jewish People. Jesus had to learn this which He did here.
The (many of the) Pharisees are children of the devil, and need to be separated out from the children of God for a harder level of purification as the children of God don’t need to suffer that - this is what the rapture is about.
God is no respecter of persons.
God does not esteem one above another.
God cares nothing for the flesh.
The flesh is as dung to God.
Satan so desired the flesh that God gave it to him.
These are tough sayings and hard to believe until found in the scriptures and cannot be denied.
God claims to intend to restore the flesh, bones and sinew upon a mighty army of souls in a discourse with one of the sages.
God will raise all the dead on that last day. He is not worried about it. God is after the end results which is purification of all that can be saved and brought into his kingdom as his family pure and simple. That is his grand plan for the flesh in the regeneration.
The depth of your question is to grand for the knowledge you posses and yet all is in the scriptures for you to see.
A small child makes a game of asking an adult “Why” to every response given… finally the response becomes a final “Because I said so”! Now the child is on their own for answers and life begins… LOL!
You are using questions gleaned from only skimming the surface of bible mysteries. If you get down to business with study you will be answering your own such questions and saving the heavy stuff for others who might have the answers or clues to such.
To further your education-
The Bible proves that we each have our own destiny, even the world and the heavens themselves have a destiny All such has been written and sealed in heavenly books. Our destinies were determined even before the earth was formed. The “Book Of Life” was filled with it’s names before the earth was formed. Each of the chosen already has a place prepared for them in Paradise. All these things and ever much more are available to you or anyone who recieves the Christ in the manner instructed… because the Holy Spirit shall be given, who will answer all and teach all as he is requested… but you must then have the questions. Destiny written, explains why odd things seem to happen around us and to us.
Well… It becomes a matter of Faith/Belief that such thing’s exist in order for us to comprehend it all. Read Isaiah 45:7 and see what you can deduce about where good and evil came from… just as an example.
Do not use the NIV version of the bible as you will never be sucessful on that path.
I know you believe that Jesus said or did things, because someone wrote that he did, and you believe that person. There are many things that Jesus was quoted a saying that didn’t happen, such as His returning in his father’s Glory, with his angels,while some of the people there listening to him would still be alive…it didn’t happen. He is also quoted as saying the world would end in that generation but it didn’t. People just decided to translate the word generation to fit their beliefs.(Matthew chapter 24_verse 34) but Matthew also use the word generation just as we do today, he is said to have written;" there were 14 generation between David and Jesus!!
Are you saying that God let Satan create some of the people on earth? That is even worse and would make God a terrible being,God supposed to have created Satan, so that would mean he wanted evil to exist…sorry, such a being would not be a good being but evil in it self!!
The Bible proves that it was written by humans, there is no proof of anything except it was written by humans just as the Koran and other books of other religions or just stories we read for pleasure( or say like the dictionary a way to understand others words).