God of Love; God of Judgement? Michael Ramsden at Pepperdine University with Q&A
Is God fair? Is he morally trustworthy? Is he inconstant in some way? Is there a difference in God's character in the Old Testament versus the New Testament?
How is it possible for God to judge man with the same standards that man
judges man? This is where the anthropomorphic analogies break down. Man can
judge man because they are equals; but, when man has to "judge" anything
else, he uses different standards. If a wasp stings Mr Jones when he swats
at it, people don't judge the wasp the same as they would judge a person
who stabbed Mr Jones. Similarly, God does not judge us the same way we
would judge us, because we are not His equal.
+Believer VS Beliefs We, however, shouldn't judge other men since we are subjected to the same type of wrong like other people do. If we judge others but yet we make the same type of wrong as others, only makes us hypocrites
+Believer VS Beliefs I've 2 points that I want to say1) Christ Jesus had became that very man to experience what we have experience. In fact, his suffering at the Calvary, being betrayed by His fellow Jews and apostles, being mocked by people shows that what we have gone through, He gone through it before. Yet even though He faced trials and temptation in all directions, He did not sin. Therefore, having faced what we face, He is able to judge.2) And who are we to question whether God can judge? Does we, the created, have the right to question or say whether God, the Creator, can judge us or not?
The statement at the 31:45 mark is really one to think about. There's a
depth there that's easily missed if you're not paying attention. I've
listened to it four times and I think I'd like to hear more teaching on
that.
i appreciated the answer to the question asked "how can i be happy in
heaven if the person who abused me, who made my life hell, is in heaven as
well' ,..and of course that is what jonah wrestled (poorly) with- the
nineveh (today's general area of contention Mosul in iraq) atrocities were
infamous, their wickedness and brutality are hard to grasp, until you see
those same people burning people alive today. the same question might be
asked by iraqi christians today...how could God ever allow these people to
repent? easy to judge jonah til' we have to 'pray for our enemies
'...takes on new meaning
great questions
as our understanding of the truly awesome nature of God, the magnitude of His being, the depths of our depravity, the scope of what we have been forgiven and at what cost redeemed grows in our spiritual lives, it becomes easier to grasp. keeping our hearts fixed on Jesus Christ, immersing ourselves in His word, and in prayer are the 'Way'
+Laine Gordon Unfortunately it's a largely accepted idea, the idea that they can't be happy if bad people go to Heaven, and so they wont come to Christ because of that, and neither do the Christians.
In answering one of the questions he makes reference to the new Noah movie, this movie was out last year, 2014. So the answer to your question would be, Recent.
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