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Apr 3, 2009 · So with Jesus has come into the world salvation. "I did not come to judge the world but to save the world" ( John 3:17 ). So the window that we have of Jesus in the world is a day of salvation, a day of offering forgiveness, a day of dying for sinners, and a day of holding out his hands and beckoning. And all that in the Old Testament was ...
God is the source of all that we are, all that we have and all that we know. Three hundred years earlier, Solomon had encapsulated this truth: “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge” ( Proverbs 1:7) and “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom” ( Proverbs 9:10 ).
God is behind every victory in your life, and so you need to make sure that you give God all the credit and glory for all the victories in your life. It is through faith that you are triumphant in victory, not through your own wisdom or resources or strength.
- Reasons Why God Commands War
- Is War Compatible with God's Goodness?
- Does God Command The Church to Go to War?
Let's go ahead and dig on in. We start with that first question what reason could God have for commanding war? We can give several answers to this question; the first being the nation of Israel itself you see in the Old Testament to accomplish his plan of redemptive history. God chooses the nation of Israel by making that choice though he's now com...
Let's turn now to the second question, is war compatible with the moral goodness of God? Let's start by examining that theological basis. Anyone who wants to say these are incompatible ideas would have to affirm a statement like this. That the killing of people and maybe, especially non-combatants or innocents is morally contradictory to God's good...
Today the answer to that question is a simple no and the reason has to do with redemptive history you see in the Old Testament. We've talked why God chose to use a nation to advance his plans and purposes. Remember that as a nation war has to be on the table but we're in the New Testament now. In the Old Testament, the people of God were equivalent...
This victory, however, would come about only through divine intervention—not through human strength, ingenuity, or timing. The oppressed righteous community could live in anticipation of a promised reversal of fortunes. To some extent, such themes are part of a metanarrative that characterizes Old Testament literature.
“Violence in the Old Testament” may refer generally to the Old Testament’s descriptions of God or human beings killing, destroying, and doing physical harm. As part of the activity of God, violence may include the results of divine judgment, such as God’s destruction of “all flesh” in the flood story (Gen. 6:13) or God raining fire ...
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The terms he italicizes are then accessibly unpacked. The first chapter, entitled “The Wise God,” studies Proverbs 8:21–31 to consider what it means to live in God’s world here and now in the light of God as the wise Creator. “God creates in/by/with/through Wisdom” (p. 27) then “those who learn to love wisdom are in some way ...
