Jeremiah 10-13
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wolfbiblemoonI know this means to not believe that the stars and sun influence your life, but I don't think there's any real issue with being in awe of signs that occur in the sky, some of those things are pretty amazing sights.
Israel begs God not to destroy everything for their sins because they don't control their own destinies and can't determine what will happen to them. Well, exactly.
Jeremiah is getting to be another repetitive book, God just keeps threatening that he'll do all this bad stuff because noone worshipped him properly and he's feeling all jealous about it.
AS for Jeremiah himself, some people are getting fed up of all his prophesying and are plotting to kill him, but God says he'll get them for their plotting.
God will punish all the people in the lands around his land and then take pity on them because then they will believe in him and follow him, really?
Oh, and I wanted to share a little something on the subject of souls that makes interesting reading.
Israel begs God not to destroy everything for their sins because they don't control their own destinies and can't determine what will happen to them. Well, exactly.
Jeremiah is getting to be another repetitive book, God just keeps threatening that he'll do all this bad stuff because noone worshipped him properly and he's feeling all jealous about it.
AS for Jeremiah himself, some people are getting fed up of all his prophesying and are plotting to kill him, but God says he'll get them for their plotting.
God will punish all the people in the lands around his land and then take pity on them because then they will believe in him and follow him, really?
Oh, and I wanted to share a little something on the subject of souls that makes interesting reading.
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Date: 2010-09-23 11:48 pm (UTC)If God really made all the decisions, then people would always do right things. They wouldn't sin, they wouldn't worship idols, cheat each other, etc.
I think it is quite clear (in the Old Testament) that God sets a standard, and consequences for not meeting that standard, and people are asked to do their best to live up to it. When they don't, the consequences take effect. Many times in the Old Testament, people do genuinely repent and God always restores them to prosperity. When they do not, then justice prevails.