Musings on the Tough Life Questions

The Cross is Much More Powerful than what anyone one of us think. How Powerful? It's universal impact is seen in its resounding defeat of sin and death. The Resurrection of Christ was much more powerful than what anyone one of us think. The Resurrection of Christ was so powerful, it altered irrevocably the entire process of death for all of mankind. It completely impacted the death process that began with Adam, with no DELAY or GAPS to its effect and power. Resurrection is a process WITH NO DELAY, NO GAPS , that started in the end of that Age with ONE MAN, Christ's own resurrection, (He does not die again), with an immediate impact as seen by the many OT saints walking around and seen by others. [Matt 27:52] Then at his ascension He did lead captivity captive, as spoils, as firstfruits (perhaps represented by the 144K), and on the last day, at the destruction of Jerusalem in AD 70, a full awakening of everyone else in Sheol, all of Daniel’s people, th...

Someone said "Looks like the Apostle Paul didn't believe in everyone being restored either... Romans 10:1 Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved." ------ My response: That was the beginning of His thesis. His opening statement. You need to follow the whole treatment. First he outlined an entire argument to conclude that Israel was blinded for a purpose... to bring others in... “God has given them a spirit of stupor, Eyes that they should not see And ears that they should not hear, To this very day.” Then he surmises that if they fell, and the result looked dire, with so many were in darkness, what would their fullness look like... "I say then, have they stumbled that they should fall? Certainly not! But through their fall, to provoke them to jealousy, salvation has come to the Gentiles. 12 Now if their fall is riches for the world, and their failure riches for the Gentiles, how much mo...

Supposed someone says: Abortion is a choice. No evangelical should be against it. It saves the unborn child and send them directly to heaven. Why allow them to grown up with the 90% possibility of rejecting Christ and be sent to hell? If you want to populate heaven, the more abortions, the better." How would you answer people who state this against Christianity?  **Disclaimer - I do not support abortions.** I am advocating no such thing.   However Andrea Yates drowned her 5 children for exactly this reason. The purpose to this question is to demonstrate logical fallacies and it is a  a critique of INCONSISTENTLY HELD theological beliefs that actually trying to advocate doing that.. --------------------------------- Let's rephrase it different. Here is the logical syllogism 90% of Humans who are Born and pass the [unbiblical] age of accountability will go to Hell or be Annihilated forever, because they would reject God. 100% of Children who are...

A common argument is that the restoration of all things aka "universalism" demeans the cross. Nothing can be further from the truth. It fact it is most certainly anchored and founded on the efficacy of the Cross. The Cross is Much More Powerful than what anyone one of us think. How Powerful? It's universal impact is seen in its resounding defeat of sin and death. The Cross performed this universal work in two phases:  Death work and then  a Living Work. First the Powerful Death Work of the Cross All men have sinned and fall short [Rom 3:23] - universal First Known Judgment - In Adam all die [1 Cor. 15:22] - universal The Cross then executed the Kosmos Death Defying Final Judgment - But In Christ all died [2 Cor 5:14] - universal In Christ all things reconciled whether in heaven, or on earth, by making peace on the cross [Col 1:19-20; 2 Cor 5:19] - universal [ all things does not mean "Christians" or Israel only; reconciliation ...

The Cross is Much More Powerful than what anyone one of us think. The Cross is the Ultimate Judgment of the World /Kosmos, in that when He was lifted up, He dragged all men unto Him. The Cross however does not negate the process and importance of believing in God, the existence of sin, the existence of free will, the existence of the Lake of Fire, or the judgment of men. However the Cross is much more powerful than [Adam's] sin and [Adam's] death , and anything else you put in front of it. It chooses to see that mercy always triumphs over judgment , and the process of "out of Him, through Him and [somehow] back to Him are all things" [Rom 11:36] , will never be aborted, as it was set fully in motion by the Cross, even if some have to be put to shame. But it is a certainty that Back to Him are all things. In the fullness of time, Christ is and will be the point , the aggregation, the summary, the pivot, the sum of all things gathered in Heav...

Why should a 5 year old child get a free pass to heaven? Just because he is a child (at least according to our traditional theology)? (Besides who in their right mind would ever put up a message like what was attached to this picture) This is what someone said: "Scripture is clear that children and the unborn have original sin--including both the propensity to sin as well as the inherent guilt of original sin. But could it be that somehow Christ's atonement did pay for the guilt for these helpless ones throughout all time? Yes, and therefore it is a credible assumption that a child who dies at an age too young to have made a conscious, willful rejection of Jesus Christ will be taken to be with the Lord." <--- My Response: Close but Why Should this be the case? Why Babies only? Why not the disenfranchised, the mentally ill? The Answer is the Cross ... not because Babies are special and not because we think Babies should be innocent. Recently a little th...

Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me, and to finish His work. Do you not say, ‘There are still four months and then comes the harvest ’? Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes and look at the fields, for they are already white for harvest! And he who reaps receives wages, and gathers fruit for eternal life, that both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together. For in this the saying is true: ‘One sows and another reaps.’ I sent you to reap that for which you have not labored; others have labored, and you have entered into their labors.” " Jesus finished the harvest.  He sent his apostles to the field, BACK then to reap what they did not sow. All the prophets whom Israel killed, were the ones who sowed into the vineyard, and now the apostles and his disciples went forth to bring forth fruit of the Kingdom, fruit that 1st century Israel did not bring forth. The fruit was the believing Jews and the Gentiles from many nat...

Someone said "Looks like the Apostle Paul didn't believe in universalism either... Romans 10:1 Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved." ------ My response: That was the beginning of His thesis. His opening statement. You need to follow the whole treatment. Then he went through an entire argument to conclude that Israel was blinded for a purpose... to bring others in... "“God has given them a spirit of stupor, Eyes that they should not see And ears that they should not hear, To this very day.” Then he surmises that if they fell, and this was the result, and so many were in darkness, what would their fullness look like... "I say then, have they stumbled that they should fall? Certainly not! But through their fall, to provoke them to jealousy, salvation has come to the Gentiles. 12 Now if their fall is riches for the world, and their failure riches for the Gentiles, how much more their fullness!"...

When your kid ask how a computer is made, you don't go into material creation, you automatically talk about functional creation... You don't talk about every iode, transistor, electrical circuit, the chemical make up....the manufacturing process.... You tell the kid, there is a motherboard for this, memory for this, hardware for this, monitor for this, then I put software on it...and I make it work like this. Only when the computer is actually doing what it's functionally supposed to do, then the computer is made, else it's a brick. That's how Genesis 1 was written. Not many people stop to think how ridiculous it is for the sun to be materially created in the third day when light, and BOTH day and night was in the first day. The Sun already existed. It was given its function with respect to the earth. It was told you rule over the day. That's when the ancient near eastern people consider it crea...

In Harrisburg, PA, March, 2017,  a three year old little girl died because a Hover board exploded. These Hover boards faced a number of recalls. Get rid of them if you have one. Also I was thinking that the average traditional Christian theology has no adequate way of addressing whether this girl is in heaven of not without cognitive dissonance and mental gymnastics. You are supposed to confess Christ as Lord, as you are born in sin. Well a three year old, may not have the cognitive capacity to do so. Since she was born in sin, she would not make it. She would be in hell... Wait... are you recoiling at that? What did you say? She would be in heaven? What gave her a free pass? Because she is a child or under some mystical age of accountability (that is no where to be found in scripture)? This is the exact reason why Andrea Yates killed all her children so that they don't have to live in this cruel world and go to heaven. Hey that logically makes se...

Are we all children of God? A lot of people don't get this. There are two words for son... huios and teknon. One refers to a mature son, with all rights of inheritance, the other a servant who has not matured and awaken. This is the son of promise and son of flesh concept. We are all children of God, at the flesh level, in the sense that we are all offspring of God just as Issac and Ishmael were the children of Abraham. The real question is not whether we are all children of God or how He is the Father of all We are all certainly His offspring. The real question is whether you are a son of the flesh, an Ishmael or a son of the spirit, an Issac. Are you only born from beneath, or are you also begotten from above. Not all are children by the Spirit. You need to be begotten from above. Begotten is conception of a male seed. It is not associated with females and the birth canal. It used and associated with males. Begotten from above is the Father con...

All those in Lake of Fire will be given life after paying their last farthing, and after some eons and when the judgment has done its work [aion judgment]... the Work of judgment is so that people will learn righteousness. It's a judgment of works. EVERYONE is on the New Earth. Wicked and Non-Wicked. The gates of New Jerusalem are always open. The wicked when cast into the lake are found outside the City. The tree of Life is available for the healing of nations. The River of Life is for many to wash robes and drink. The wicked will enter after a period of judgment, and then each in His own order [1 Cor 15:23] will access life, until God is all in all [1 Cor 15:18], and all things go back to Him [Rom 11:36] NOTE: Understanding from principles from the Laws of Restitution and the fact that the Lake of Fire is the Sea of Molten Glass, the Brazen Altar in the Heavenly temple is needed. Revelation is simply the shadows of the OT on Steroids. Understanding ...

" The sea gave up the dead who were in it, and Death and Hades delivered up the dead who were in them. And they were judged, each one according to his works. 14 Then Death and Hades were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. 15 And anyone not found written in the Book of Life was cast into the lake of fire" [Rev 20:13-15] "It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. I will give of the fountain of the water of life freely to him who thirsts. 7 He who overcomes shall inherit all things, and I will be his God and he shall be My son. 8 But the cowardly, unbelieving, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death." [Rev 21:6-18] "And the nations of those who are saved shall walk in its light, and the kings of the earth bring their glory and honor into it. 25 Its gates shall not be shut...

No where in scripture it says the Kingdom is one age... That is a Western way of thinking... it says the Kingdom shall not end... "and the Lord shall free me from every evil work, and shall save [me] -- to his heavenly kingdom; to whom [is] the glory to the ages of the ages! Amen." [2 Tim 4:18] The Kingdom will last many ages and will not end... To the Hebraic mind its many ages that will not end. We are just now getting started from a time perspective... Simple bible theology 101 "“Ages of ages” could be seen as constituting a collection of these various periods. For example, if God has designated various ages for his plan for earth, then “ages of ages” could be used to describe a period of time reaching over the entire time or even beyond."