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I have been going to seminary for a while, and Heyward is very knowledgeable as well. We want to answer any and all of your questions concerning the tenets and beliefs of Christianity: Who Christ is, why suffering exists, who God is, what is the nature of God, why Jesus had to die, is the Bible accurate, what does the Bible say, etc.

We want you to be comfortable with talking about Christianity, we will not try to argue our assert our beliefs upon you, we will just state them. Anything you want to ask, we will answer without judgement. If we don't hold up to our promises here, I am sorry.
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May 7 2015, 02:29 PM
God doesn't control what happens down on Earth. Wouldn't you agree? If one person suffers then it doesn't make God a dick because God isn't responsible for that person's suffering. The world and its natural worldly circumstances are.

My idea:
You're not born with a disability because of God, you're born with a disability due to whatever circumstances made it be.

Some Christian's Idea?:
Everything happens for a reason, and God is responsible for a lot of those things.
I am going to quote a major section of Romans 9. In this letter, the Apostle Paul is talking to the church at Rome. In this chapter he is speaking on God's sovereignty. To be sovereign is to be in control. To have absolute sovereginty, as God has, is to control everything.
My explanation of what Paul means is going to be color coated.

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I am speaking the truth in Christ—I am not lying; my conscience bears me witness in the Holy Spirit—that I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart. For I could wish that I myself were accursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my brothers, my kinsmen according to the flesh. They are Israelites, and to them belong the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the worship, and the promises. To them belong the patriarchs, and from their race, according to the flesh, is the Christ, who is God over all, blessed forever. Amen.

This is an introduction to his next comments. It is a show of compassion for every human being around him. He would give up his salvation and be sent to hell so that others would not have to suffer it. This is love.



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But it is not as though the word of God has failed. For not all who are descended from Israel belong to Israel, and not all are children of Abraham because they are his offspring, but “Through Isaac shall your offspring be named.” This means that it is not the children of the flesh who are the children of God, but the children of the promise are counted as offspring. For this is what the promise said: “About this time next year I will return, and Sarah shall have a son.” And not only so, but also when Rebekah had conceived children by one man, our forefather Isaac, though they were not yet born and had done nothing either good or bad—in order that God's purpose of election might continue, not because of works but because of him who calls—she was told, “The older will serve the younger.” As it is written, “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”

Even when people are not saved from hell, the word of God has not failed, in fact God's will (or plan) HAS succeeded!
God didn't bless all of Abraham's sons, but only the ones God chose. He was sovereign in his election of the people he blessed. He chose who got salvation and who didn't.



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What shall we say then? Is there injustice on God's part? By no means! For he says to Moses, “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.” So then it depends not on human will or exertion, but on God, who has mercy. For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, “For this very purpose I have raised you up, that I might show my power in you, and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth.” So then he has mercy on whomever he wills, and he hardens whomever he wills.

Does this mean God is at fault when people are condemned to hell? I mean he destined them to be condemned to hell, why is it not his fault? We've no answer for this. His justification for why he is not at fault has not been shared with us, and again, he has his reasons, it is not our place to question him.
This is the Pharaoh from Exodus, the one who would not the Israelites leave Egypt. God raised him up. God caused his suffering, God hardened his heart. It was God's action on earth that this Pharaoh was doomed to hell.



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You will say to me then, “Why does he still find fault? For who can resist his will?” But who are you, O man, to answer back to God? Will what is molded say to its molder, “Why have you made me like this?” Has the potter no right over the clay, to make out of the same lump one vessel for honorable use and another for dishonorable use? What if God, desiring to show his wrath and to make known his power, has endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction, in order to make known the riches of his glory for vessels of mercy, which he has prepared beforehand for glory—even us whom he has called, not from the Jews only but also from the Gentiles? As indeed he says in Hosea

What I was talking about earlier, he has his reasons, we've no right to judge God.
We see that God has created everything, and has not left it up to chance as for what would happen. He has been in control since the very beginning. God created some people to be mirrors of his justice and wrath, others to be mirrors of his forgiveness and grace.



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“Those who were not my people I will call ‘my people,’
and her who was not beloved I will call ‘beloved.’”
“And in the very place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’
there they will be called ‘sons of the living God.’”
And Isaiah cries out concerning Israel: “Though the number of the sons of Israel be as the sand of the sea, only a remnant of them will be saved, for the Lord will carry out his sentence upon the earth fully and without delay.”
And as Isaiah predicted,
“If the Lord of hosts had not left us offspring,
we would have been like Sodom
and become like Gomorrah.”
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Pichu, I'm going to disregard everything you said except for three words.

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down on Earth


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJuag32iE6o

God controls everything else. Why is Earth special?


There's so much that we will never ever know.
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is there popcorn in heaven
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May 7 2015, 06:34 PM
is there popcorn in heaven
No, only the flesh of Jesus.







JK, I'm not catholic, I don't eat people.


Actually that's a good question, the Bible never says explicitly if there will be food in heaven. Revelation speaks of a marriage supper in the final days in heaven, when Christ will finally come down and receive his wife, or the church (not the building, the people are the church). But whether this is a literal or figurative illustration is to be left up to God and the coming days. I personally believe there will be food in heaven, because after we arrive in heaven, and the earth has been remade we will again inhabit the earth and in the beginning, God told Adam and Eve to eat fruit of the garden, but that is just my speculation--I could be totally off base. The counter argument to this would be that God will be our only source of nourishment, and that argument works totally fine for me as well. We will see when the time comes :)

Here's what the wedding supper is, taken from GotQuestions @http://www.gotquestions.org/marriage-supper-Lamb.html

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Question: "What is the marriage supper of the Lamb?"

Answer: In his vision in Revelation 19:7–10, John saw and heard the heavenly multitudes praising God because the wedding feast of the Lamb—literally, the “marriage supper”—was about to begin. The concept of the marriage supper is better understood in light of the wedding customs in the time of Christ.

These wedding customs had three major parts. First, a marriage contract was signed by the parents of the bride and the bridegroom, and the parents of the bridegroom or the bridegroom himself would pay a dowry to the bride or her parents. This began what was called the betrothal period—what we would today call the engagement. This period was the one Joseph and Mary were in when she was found to be with child (Matthew 1:18; Luke 2:5).

The second step in the process usually occurred a year later, when the bridegroom, accompanied by his male friends, went to the house of the bride at midnight, creating a torchlight parade through the streets. The bride would know in advance this was going to take place, and so she would be ready with her maidens, and they would all join the parade and end up at the bridegroom’s home. This custom is the basis of the parable of the ten virgins in Matthew 25:1–13. The third phase was the marriage supper itself, which might go on for days, as illustrated by the wedding at Cana in John 2:1–2.

What John’s vision in Revelation pictures is the wedding feast of the Lamb (Jesus Christ) and His bride (the Church) in its third phase. The implication is that the first two phases have already taken place. The first phase was completed on earth when each individual believer placed his or her faith in Christ as Savior. The dowry paid to the bridegroom’s parent (God the Father) would be the blood of Christ shed on the Bride’s behalf. The Church on earth today, then, is “betrothed” to Christ, and, like the wise virgins in the parable, all believers should be watching and waiting for the appearance of the Bridegroom (the Second Coming). The second phase symbolizes the rapture of the Church, when Christ comes to claim His bride and take her to the Father’s house. The marriage supper then follows as the third and final step. It is our view that the marriage supper of the Lamb takes place in heaven between the rapture and the second coming (during the tribulation on earth).

Attending the wedding feast will be not only the Church as the Bride of Christ, but others as well. The “others” include the Old Testament saints—they will not have been resurrected yet, but their souls/spirits will be in heaven with us. As the angel told John to write, “Blessed are those who are invited to the marriage supper of the Lamb” (Revelation 19:9). The marriage supper of the Lamb is a glorious celebration of all who are in Christ!

Read more: http://www.gotquestions.org/marriage-supper-Lamb.html#ixzz3ZVTJQn9J
Edited by KingJason001, May 8 2015, 01:38 AM.
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Do all dogs ACTUALLY go to heaven?

even gay ones?
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So if hades drags me to the underworld known also as hades and my family doesnt put a coin under my eyelid, i cant afford the boat ride to hell. i mean hades. what do i do now? is that any better than death ?
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May 8 2015, 01:41 AM
Do all dogs ACTUALLY go to heaven?

even gay ones?
No dogs go to heaven. They've got no soul.


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So if hades drags me to the underworld known also as hades and my family doesnt put a coin under my eyelid, i cant afford the boat ride to hell. i mean hades. what do i do now? is that any better than death ?

I'm not Greek.
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May 8 2015, 01:50 AM
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May 8 2015, 01:41 AM
Do all dogs ACTUALLY go to heaven?

even gay ones?
No dogs go to heaven. They've got no soul.
huh?
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May 8 2015, 01:56 AM
KingJason001
May 8 2015, 01:50 AM
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May 8 2015, 01:41 AM
Do all dogs ACTUALLY go to heaven?

even gay ones?
No dogs go to heaven. They've got no soul.
huh?
Dogs will not go to heaven.
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KingJason001
May 8 2015, 01:57 AM
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May 8 2015, 01:56 AM
KingJason001
May 8 2015, 01:50 AM
Cirno
May 8 2015, 01:41 AM
Do all dogs ACTUALLY go to heaven?

even gay ones?
No dogs go to heaven. They've got no soul.
huh?
Dogs will not go to heaven.
I mean what makes you say they don't have souls
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