Hillsong - From Inside Out

Lucy asks Mr.Beaver in the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, is Aslan safe. "Who said anything about him being safe. 'Course he isn't safe. But he's good. He's the King, I tell you." Many raise random objections in order to cripple Christianity but in the finale analysis atheism cannot credibly account for the Big Bang, the fine-tuning of the universe, the emergence of life, the existence of moral laws or even the Resurrection of Jesus. God is good and loves us but He is not safe.

If we choose not to believe because of issues judged by us from our own systems, then the excuses can be myriad. God killed Aaron's two sons then told Aaron if he cried for them He would kill him! He almost killed Moses sister because she gripped about Moses' black wife. At one point he told Moses he was going to kill all the Israelites for their disobedience and start over with just Moses. It was not random. The Israelites agreed to enter into covenant with God and knew the consequences.

God's judgments were severe but not arbitrary.

God killed the two sons of Aaron because they offered the wrong type if incense.

What?

( its funny how athiest or whoever...argue with Christians about thier God...so in other words its like to them that I AM GOD and they want answers from me...when im not lol im like everyone else but im Washed in the Blood of JESUS CHRIST!
stop questioning Christians and QUESTION who Christians Belive in!
GOD! )

i do hope that made sense lol

areohen is somewhat right. God's thinking is not like ours. It's like my reasoning and my dogs, but much much higher. I had to kill my favorite dog of all time because of the context it had fallen into. My dog could have said, I thought you loved me but you are going to kill me. I could have said you don't understand but I do love you and it is best in this situation for you to die. Sounds deplorable. I cried but it had to be done. All I'm saying is God's thoughts are higher and his ways higher.

It is a difficult subject for anyone. But your question must be in context. Do I think it is a good thing to execute homosexuals for their sin TODAY? Of course not! God doesn't think so either! We live under a new context. Grace. Under the old context God killed the first two priests the sons of Aaron, for offering the wrong kind of incense. He told Moses he would die for striking the rock instead of speaking to it. God's judgments were severe but not arbitrary. I understand the contexts.

understand this as a 'loving god' who kills people is a difficult subject for Xtians) but using the bible to justify the bible is just circular reasoning. I'm asking YOU avoice: Do YOU think its a good thing to kill people because they sleep with men rather than women or do YOU like me think such actions are to be deplored?

Heavenly Father i pray you would take control of my heart and my soul.
Every person on earth has some sort of self-established idea of what is right and what is wrong. we do our best to live within these parameters. when the lord our GOD acts outside these parameters we are quick to judge him. maybe just maybe when the lord does something or says something that makes us feel this way it is US as the sinners we are who need to evaluate where we are and what we are doing not GOD.

If I may, I was not always a Christian. I was like you an agnostic but I really didn't care. I didn't go to church. No one talked to me about God. I didn't even know any Christians at all. I never encountered them. I was a hell raiser. God was never in my thoughts. If he existed or not, I didn't care. Then one night, I had an encounter. I thought I was crazy! The next morning I had another encounter and became a Christian. He has changed my life for better and gave me what I had searched for.