Dig Deeper: Theodicy: Simplified

Friday, March 23, 2018

Theodicy: Simplified

"Theodicy in its most common form, is an attempt to answer the question of why a good God permits the manifestation of evil." Wikipedia

My response to Theodicy:

The heart is deceitful above all things,

and desperately wicked:

who can know it?

Jeremiah 17:9

EXAMPLE 1- Where was God during the Holocaust?
He was watching....who is it that told Hitler to follow Darwinian evolutionary eugenics to it's logical conclusion? Who is it that teaches man he is both a common beast of the field and teaches man

"survival of the fittest"?..NOT God...we did it to ourselves down here...How can YOU believe & teach that we are common beasts of the field, products of time + chance, and not expect someone in power to actually put it into practice? Why are YOU surprised out there if your worldview results in it's predictable results?...Hitler won an election to begin his rise to power. He published his Mein Kampf before being elected so who told YOU to elect him? Who told the German high command to stand down as he seized power? They did it by their own choices. Military men who wanted power themselves riding the Hitler wave....QUIT BLAMING GOD....YOU out there tolerated in German schools at the time evolutionary dogma as we do today. YOU could have stood up to the nonsense in a majority "Christian" nation at the time and booted it out but you chose not to....ARE YOU REALLY SURPRISED THAT TEACHING WE ARE COMMON BEASTS OF THE FIELD RESULTED IN MEN ACTING LIKE COMMON BEASTS OF THE FIELD?...God told us He created us in HIS Image....Maybe WE should start acting like it down here...

EXAMPLE 2- Where was God on 9-11?
He was watching....who is it that told mankind to make up a false religion that teaches jihad? YOU

didn't think that someone would practice jihad, which of course means innocents die?....Who was it in the "Christian" west that let the hijackers in on student visas knowing what Islam really teaches? They don't have colleges in Muslim nations???...QUIT BLAMING GOD...He split us all up at Babel by language groups/barriers .... Who told us to force ourselves to get back together? WE did it to ourselves down here. Even post 9-11, in our zeal down here to be PC western nations have now flooded themselves with millions of Muslim "refugees" as we pat ourselves on the back. Yet the terrorism escalates in Europe, Canada & the U.S....WHY are you surprised?...It wasn't God who told Muslims to worship a nonexistent "god" named allah....

EXAMPLE 3- Where is God when a single mother on crack births a crack baby?
He is watching with heavy heart....Who told the mother to do crack?....Didn't God tell her to only have sex within the confines of marriage?....Didn't God say to render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's? Well Caesar (the government) says Crack is illegal....so who told her to try Crack in the first place and break the laws of man?...And God instructs us to take care of our bodies...so who told her to use crack knowing today how bad it is for your health?..NOT God...QUIT BLAMING GOD down here...

EXAMPLE 4- Where was God during the Haiti earthquake, Hurricane Katrina & Japanese Tsunami?
He was watching....who sinned so bad that their heart was continually evil and violence filled the

land to the point God had to send a global flood busting the tectonic plates apart, tilting the earth's axis and disrupting our meteorology down here?...Humans did...QUIT BLAMING GOD...

...and quit worshipping Mother Earth in place of the Father God...it's the mother earth out of whack when we have natural disasters...if she could fix herself she would have...no amount of sacrificing on the green altar to the god of climate change will fix anything...

What We BELIEVE

* And now abideth faith, hope, LOVE, these three; but the greatest of these is LOVE. 1 Corinthians 13:13

* Genesis 1-11 is actual HISTORY

* The 10 Commandments WAS - IS - & WILL BE the LAW of GOD

* REVELATION is written in symbols for actual end time events

* The SANCTUARY lays out the Plan of Salvation (Justification / Outer Court + Sanctification / Inner Court = preparation for your Judgment / Most Holy Place)

* The solemnity of the 7th day SABBATH (Saturday) was NEVER transferred to the 1st day of the week (Sunday) by God

* The modern charismatic movement is a counterfeit Latter Rain

* The Mark-of-the-beast will involve some sort of counterfeit Sabbath

* "Soul Sleep" for the State of the Dead (dead until the resurrection)

* The Godhead (Trinity) are 3 separate beings who work together in unity

* The GODHEAD's Existence is ETERNAL (in other words-The arrow of time stretching for Infinity in both directions)

* The GREEN RELIGION (modern environmental movement) is a cleverly cloaked spiritualism for the "sophisticated" modern world

* The Little Horn of Daniel & the Beast of Revelation (a.k.a. the anti-christ to some) is one & the same institution - the same institution the Reformers declared it to be during the Reformation

* Marriage is between ONE man & ONE woman

* The Emerging Church movement -- & spiritual formation are modern day GNOSTICISM & have NO place within Christendom

* Women Ordination is an ASSAULT on the foundation of the Godhead (as God is the head of Christ in an ecclesiastical setting - so too was the man placed as the head of the woman in an ecclesiastical setting -- outside this setting they are equal as Christ is with the Father)

* Baptism is by Immersion at an age of consent

* Justification + Sanctification = TRUE RIGHTEOUSNESS BY FAITH....(Justification) Neither do I condemn thee: (Sanctification) go, and sin no more. John 8:11

* God is NOT homophobic -- rather He is sexual immorality phobic (HE places adultery, fornication, rape, bestiality, cross dressing AND homosexuality ALL in the same category)

* "HELL" is NOT an eternally burning place -- rather it is the Lake of Fire where the wicked will be destroyed together once & for all when this Great Controversy between God & His opponent comes to an end....God does NOT torment people for eternity

* The "Great Controversy" theme is the prism to make sense of this universal conflict between God & His opponent, of which we play a part on this space fabric of time as a "spectacle" (as Paul calls it) before all watching

* Biblical "speaking in tongues" was a GIFT of known foreign languages for Evangelization (not the gibberish "tongues" uttered in churches today)

* Historicism is the way to interpret eschatology from the view of the prophetic porch (NOT preterism, futurism or idealisim)

* The 3 Angel's Message (of Rev.14) is the central Mission of the SDA Church & the Sanctuary Doctrine (& it's sub-doctrine of the Investigative Judgment) is the Cornerstone Doctrine of the Denomination

* The Sacrament of the Lord's Supper is a SYMBOLIC Remembrance

* The 2nd Advent of Christ will be a literal, visible, physical return where EVERY EYE SHALL SEE HIM & that is when the dead will rise & the living be caught up-- Not at some sort of a "secret rapture" before His return...

* On the Nature of Christ - He was born with our sinful fallen nature / propensities--yet did NOT sin - hence His ability to be the spotless Lamb of God - the Lamb without blemish to cover ours

* 7th Day Adventism did not rise up at the end of the time-frame of Daniel 8:14 to be just another denomination to hang upon the wall of Christendom...

* The Dispensations around the Cross are 1) Before the Cross the Plan of Redemption laid out in the earthly Sanctuary in Types & Symbols patterned after the Heavenly Sanctuary {from the Altar of Sacrifice to the Mercy Seat} 2) After the Cross shifts to the REALITY of the Heavenly Sanctuary {from the Cross to the Judgment Seat}. ---- We REJECT the Dispensationalism that says "before the cross we were saved by the Law & after the Cross by Grace" ---- (the reason is because on BOTH SIDES OF THE CROSS we were never saved by the Law and always saved by Grace)

* We REJECT the DISGUSTING "Prosperity Gospel" as many see TV (so-called) Evangelists preach today

* Justification & Sanctification Simplified - God draws the BOUNDARIES with His LAW. When we step outside of them it's called SIN. (He offers JUSTIFICATION to remedy it). But afterwards He expects us to step back within those Boundaries (called SANCTIFICATION ).

* EndTime "BABYLON" - Confederacy of the Counterfeit Trinity of the "Dragon", "Beast" & "False Prophet" of Rev.16:13. (Also a term of Reference for the Fallen Condition of Christendom)

*The OLD TESTAMENT is simply the NEW TESTAMENT in Types & Symbols- therefore both are valid for Study & Doctrine.

* "A Minister's words are only of Value as long as his word's are an Echo of the Word's of God." {Dwayne Lemon}

* We REJECT the Church being involved with the ECUMENICAL movement....where do you see in Scripture God's people ever being told to be Ecumenical with neighboring religions?.. Nowhere....

*We believe in "Replacement Theology", that "Israel" in prophetic terms and spiritually is God's people...NOT Literal, Modern Day Israel in the Middle East.

* Tithing is Biblical: MONEY (1/10 to God) TIME (1/7 to God- the 7th day of the week, called the SABBATH)

* Soteriology: We believe in total FREE WILL as a component. - Therefore we Reject Sacramentalism, Predestination, Once-Saved-Always-Saved, Universalism & Pluralism.

* The HEALTH MESSAGE-Live it as best you can. Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest....be in health... 3 John 1:2

* And always remember - "If you feel yourself to be the greatest sinner, Christ is just what you need, the greatest Savior. Lift up your head and look away from yourself, away from your sin, to the uplifted Savior; away from the poisonous, venomous bite of the serpent to the Lamb of God who taketh away the sin of the world." Ellen White {JUSTIFICATION}

* "God has given us His commandments, not only to be believed in, but to be obeyed." Ellen White {SANCTIFICATION}

* SUMMARY: "Every chapter and every verse of the Bible is a communication from God to men." Ellen White

* WARNING: "...by beholding we become changed. The mind gradually adapts itself to the subjects upon which it is allowed to dwell. It becomes assimilated to that which it is accustomed to love and reverence." Ellen White

Are Ashes Upon Your Lips?

The love of God still yearns over the one who has chosen to separate from Him, and He sets in operation influences to bring him back to the Father's house.
--Have you, reader, chosen your own way?
--Have you wandered far from God?
--Have you sought to feast upon the fruits of transgression, only to find them turn to ashes upon your lips?
Now that voice which has long been speaking to your heart but to which you would not listen comes to you distinct and clear, Arise ye, and depart; for this is not your rest; because it is polluted, it shall destroy you, even with a sore destruction. Micah 2:10. Return to your Father's house. He invites you, saying, Return unto Me; for I have redeemed thee. Isa. 44:22.
E.G.W.