Comments on: Something Light: Questions for God

By: kimberly

kimberly — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:41:05 +0000

But Bianca, they’re NOT grown up, and asking questions is part of how they learn.

I still think they’re cute.

By: Bianca

Bianca — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:36:18 +0000

The interesting thing about these questions from kids to God is, everyone thinks they’re cute, when really they demonstrate a lack of teaching and training from parents and churches. All of those four cutesy questions have answers from the Bible and from the Westminster, Belgic and London confessions and catechisms. It’s certainly not cute when these same kids grow up and can’t define justification, sanctification, propitiation and expiation. After all, it’s all about receiving J-Dawg into your right ventricle and feeling the luv, man.

1. Of course it’s okay for them to kiss. They just got married, Honey.

2. God is jealous for his worship, not for material things. He commands that we worship no other gods.

3. If you don’t find scriptural teachings restful, the problem is your heart, not the day of the week.

4. God does keep the ones he has now. When they die, they receive new bodies – the saved get glorified bodies and the damned get eternal bodies unto death.

There.

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By: Make it Man

Make it Man — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 14:21:11 +0000

You wild and crazy guy, how ya been?

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By: Make it Man

Make it Man — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 14:20:46 +0000

Oh look, Ed is back…

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By: bobxxxxxxx

bobxxxxxxx — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 02:52:03 +0000

These children are victims of mental child abuse. Most of them will grow up to be as stupid as their parents.

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By: Make it Man

Make it Man — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 01:02:25 +0000

Granted, Solomon’s wives were more problematic than David’s were if only for the sheer number of them. The more problematic issue was the idolatry within the ranks of his wives. But you must also remember that David had that problem also, among others, including the adulterous affair with Bathsheba.

You cannot say that David didn’t have multiple wives no matter how you cut it. I recall nothing that says he divorced any of his wives, and “put away” (whatever that means) only Michal. As for the idea that God gave him his wives, I take the “giving” to mean the same thing that you would, when you say God gave us the rain or the sunshine, or our food…

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By: Chas

Chas — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 22:01:20 +0000

I counted David’s wives once for a Bible study. I don’t know how many he had, but I counted seven. Except for Michal, Abigail, Bathsheba and a couple of others, we only know the wives who bore him children. Of course, Michal didn’t. A wife was only important if she bore children.

Solomon’s wives lead him into apostasy. The daughter of Pharoh was the chief, but not only culprit.

In a Bible study about David and Bathsheba, I opened the lesson with.

“There’s a song by the country singer Loretta Lynn that has a line, Sometimes a man’s caught looking ’round at things he don’t need. That appropriately describes David. He had at least five wives at the time and probably some concubines. He didn’t need to get into this.”

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By: Cheryl D.

Cheryl D. — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 21:05:53 +0000

MIM,

I haven’t studied it with that in mind. But Michal was put away (and was married for a time to another man), and a wife or two might have died in there, I don’t really remember. But my impression is that he had four or five total, but not all at once–not a dozen all at one time. Yes, his multiple families did cause some problems, but I don’t think we have any indication that any other than Bathsheba was his wrongfully. For instance, Abigail wasn’t his first wife, but the telling of that story almost seems to indicate God gave her to David as a reward for his restraint.

(OK, I see in 2 Samuel 3:2-5 a list of several wives, some of whom don’t seem to be mentioned elsewhere. Again, I don’t know how many wives he had–but Solomon’s wives seem overall far more problematic than David’s.)

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By: Xion

Xion — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 16:26:36 +0000

I’m with you. Great question! I’m sure Augustine, Calvin and Luther asked him the same thing.

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By: kimberly

kimberly — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 16:21:49 +0000

Maybe we should add the specifics of “ordaining” the Fall to the list of questions to ask God.

Who knows how man’s sin and man’s mistakes fit in with the sovereign plan of God? You, O Lord, have done as it pleased you? (Jonah 1)

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