WHY was Exodus 19:16-19 essential to Exodus 20?
COULD it be that God wanted to impress his Awesome Nature on Israel before they would take his Ten Words seriously? Remember that the Israelites’ long stay in Egypt had fatally compromised their understanding of God’s:
IN the year preceding the Exodus God had expressed his control of the spiritual and natural world:
Israel had to understand:
THEN…eclipsing ALL THAT, God expressed his Almighty control over meteorological forces. The entire Mt. Sinai area became his Holy Ground, as on its summit:
COULD it be that only that FINAL MAJESTY, releasing atmospheric disturbances as a symbol that united his NAME with his NATURE, prepared Israel for the LAW that controlled behavior for the next 1500 years, until Christ released the world to live forgiven under GRACE? Fini
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WHY do we educate our God-given MIND to THINK – then teach it to THINK God doesn’t exist? WHY would we ignore the very distinctives that grant us a higher life, the absence of which in animals leaves them in a lower?
And WHY, when God made us sons and daughters in HIS image, would we want to be mom and dad to animals that God NEVER SAID were made in OURS? COULD we possibly be so spiritually insane that we would forfeit being servants of our God in his kingdom to rule as lesser masters in a lower? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WHY do we want to live a long time, yet regret growing older? COULD it be that our plans to live longer here, and failing to increase the Biblical time span Psalm 90:10 reveals, decrease our desire to live forever in God’s New World? That we can be so captivated by our failure to substantially prolong life here that we think not even God has the means to prolong it eternally? That our very experiences with sorrows, defeats, diseases and limitations make us more determined than ever to FIND A WAY to reverse our aging here, no matter what God offers? COULD it be that we are so physically earth-bound that we can’t conceive of a spiritual world of perfection in every thought, deed and relationship? All of which proves HOW FAR from God we have drifted! End Part III WHY do we have selective memories?
COULD our Eve-based sin in putting faith in our reason/intellect above faith in God in his word be the evil Jesus crucifies in us prior to accepting our discipleship? For nothing more quickly distances us from God than thinking WE don’t need him. WHY is it that seeds die in the ground
COULD it be that God allowed that fate for decaying mortal beings to warn us of our failure to reverse it UNTIL he sent to earth the SINGLE PERSON ever to live who
Because THAT MAN died on Friday and ROSE bodily from the dead on Sunday! Because that MAN, alone of all mortals born, had in him as his nature DEITY that couldn’t die and stirred the mortal who did into NEW, EVERLASTING LIFE, eliminating the mortal as he did. In doing so, giving promise to all mortals who must die, or be called home, to become changed into the likeness of THAT MAN who himself since his Resurrection is ONLY ALMIGHTY GOD the SON. End Part II Questions and possible answers in no particular order.
WHY do we have such interest in novels and mythical Greek and Roman pagan religions, and so little in God’s Biblical, historical truth? COULD it be, we know:
WHY, betraying clear scriptural teaching, do Christians mimic secularists, who have a need of celebrities, to compensate for our frailties and failures? As J.P. Moreland correctly said, Christian celebrity is an oxymoron. And I add the scriptural reason in Colossians 3:1. We are to be “hidden with God in Christ.” How can we be invisible and be a celebrity? COULD it be, we have too little depth of scripture in our personal lives that we PREFER mortals like us shining to the GLORIOUS, BLINDING LIGHT of Jesus Christ illuminating our lives? Could we profit as Christians by going back to century ONE, “when not many of you were wise by human standards; not many were influential; not many were of noble birth?” I Corinthians 7:26. At least then we have as our only celebrity Jesus the Christ! WHY do so many Americans, and not a few of them apparently religious, allow all non-Christian religions public recognition while:
COULD it be that America has plunged so deeply into ecumenicity, secularism and materialism that we have LOST our spiritual integrity—and don’t even realize it? End Part I On May 21, 2023, the San Diego Union-Tribune reported the sale of a:
That story raises an interesting question. Why does increasing age exaggerate the value of Things, but diminish the value of People? A 27-year-old tourist from Britain visited the Colosseum in Rome. He frivolously scratched a love note on a wall. Arrested for defacing a UNESCO World Heritage site, he pleaded ignorance of the structure’s antiquity. SD U-T, 7/9/23. That’s hard to believe. What’s easier is his arrogance to think he could escape responsibility. However, it’s a GIVEN in church administration today: older ministers can’t reach young people, but young ministers CAN reach seniors. Where did such baseless juvenile rationale originate? For it poses embarrassing questions to church planners:
Golda Meir once said that it’s easy to make people cry and easy to make them laugh, but much harder to make them THINK. Everyone hearing Christ teach had to THINK! What rationale, then, inspires Christian leaders to encourage pulpit messages that seek to entertain than instruct the audience:
When, if not in the Church Growth Movement, did it become more important to KEEP listeners happy than to CONVICT them? When, adopting that strategy has led to smaller audiences for preaching and vast throngs for Gospel Sings. |
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