Jan wrote on Feb 3
rd, 2012 at 4:13pm:
Quote:Later, when i am awake in my body, i do not 'hear voices' in my head. Never have.[And if i did, knowing what i know, i would be very worried.]
........ God really does work in mysterious ways ... He provided us with the necessary 'tools' to deal with problems for ourselves, intelligence, a thought processor, emotions, conscience and freewill.
The true God does not judge,
freewill makes us our own judge and jury.
Our freewill in this life gives us the opportunity to;
1/ make choices,
2/ make mistakes [through those choices],
3/ [subsequently] recognise our mistakes [as, mistakes!],
4/ [subsequently, the opportunity] change the way we choose, 'next time'.
Biblically, the end of that process is called, repentance.
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You said;
"The true God does not judge,..."
Not true [imo].
In my experience, if God does not punish us, that is because we are not considered to be 'child material'.
And imo, such people live their lives oblivious of God [and a spiritual realm].
And imo, God
seems to have 'cast off' these people.
.....[perhaps because their spirit [the spirit within them] is TOO 'rebellious' and proud ???? ]
And imo, God [usually, often] does not overtly punish these people for the wickedness they do in their lives.
....coz, my
guess is, that their fate will be, as a spiritual smudge on God's 'windscreen'.
Psalms 73:6
Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain; violence covereth them as a garment.
7 Their eyes stand out with fatness: they have more than heart could wish.
8 They are corrupt, and speak wickedly concerning oppression: they speak loftily.
9 They set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue walketh through the earth.
10 Therefore his people return hither: and waters of a full cup are wrung out to them.
11 And they say, How doth God know? and is there knowledge in the most High?
12 Behold, these are the ungodly, who prosper in the world; they increase in riches.
Psalms 37:7
Rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for him: fret not thyself because of him who prospereth in his way, because of the man who bringeth wicked devices to pass.
Psalms 5:4
....thou art not a God that hath pleasure in wickedness: neither shall evil dwell with thee.
Whereas, if you are 'child material' [in God's eyes], then God [the spirit] will 'monitor' your actions [your choices], and when you make a bad choice, he will chastise you, in an effort to bring you back to the correct path.
Jeremiah 18:1
The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,
2 Arise, and go down to the potter's house, and there I will cause thee to hear my words.
3 Then I went down to the potter's house, and, behold, he wrought a work on the wheels.
4 And the vessel that he made of clay was marred in the hand of the potter: so he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it.
5 Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
6 O house of Israel, cannot I do with you as this potter? saith the LORD. Behold, as the clay is in the potter's hand, so are ye in mine hand, O house of Israel.
Romans 9:19
Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault? For who hath resisted his will?
20 Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?
21 Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?
22 What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction:
23 And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory,
24 Even us, whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles?
Hebrews 12:5
And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him:
6 For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.
7 If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?
8 But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.
9 Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?
10 For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness.
11 Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.
Proverbs 15:10
Correction is grievous unto him that forsaketh the way: and he that hateth reproof shall die.
Proverbs 3:11
My son, despise not the chastening of the LORD; neither be weary of his correction:
12 For whom the LORD loveth he correcteth; even as a father the son in whom he delighteth.