tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7930553747640588156.post2095025857494019303..comments2023-10-30T04:29:36.162-07:00Comments on *Gospel-driven Disciples: What is The Will of God? Part IGregg Metcalfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12170541048035179191noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7930553747640588156.post-74453127594808351562010-06-10T21:52:03.982-07:002010-06-10T21:52:03.982-07:00I like the new look also! Very easy on the eye.I like the new look also! Very easy on the eye.Eddie Eddingshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15864410680077755048noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7930553747640588156.post-17668708205164541432010-06-10T20:28:55.819-07:002010-06-10T20:28:55.819-07:00I'm still listening. I have questions but per...I'm still listening. I have questions but perhaps the answers are coming up.<br />I do want to understand more about prayer.<br />Also, were Adam and Eve "perfect" in every way or only physically.<br />I'll also be wanting to understand the concept of free will and if none of us has free will, where did this idea come from.<br /><br />I understand Yvonne's questioning when things often don't seem to make sense and you're seemng to indicate we have no real control. Should I just stop trying and put my life on autopilot?<br /><br />LeeArlee Birdhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11663942782929929334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7930553747640588156.post-84624212394411358672010-06-10T19:18:33.111-07:002010-06-10T19:18:33.111-07:00I like the new look.
Real snazzy Gregg ;-)I like the new look.<br /><br />Real snazzy Gregg ;-)J Curtishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12746127431922685446noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7930553747640588156.post-18512255183694230892010-06-10T13:31:25.086-07:002010-06-10T13:31:25.086-07:00Yvonne - I am glad the my post has provoked some t...Yvonne - I am glad the my post has provoked some thought. I hope that your re-evaluation takes you deeper into Christ and His grace.<br /><br />I am sorry about the taxi driver and his murderous rampage. When Adam sinned, we were "seminally" represented in Adam. As a result we "fell" from a sinless state into a state of sin and are born with a depraved, sinful nature. <br /><br />We are not all as depraved as we can be, nor do we exhibit the full depth of our depravity. We all have the very same propensity and sin as the cab driver you spoke of or, for as equally horrendous monster in our country, Charles Manson. God's grace, our personality, our parents, the church, laws, family, etc, are used by God to restrain our depravity and many of us are never like that cab driver or Charles Manson. <br /><br />I am not saying in this study of God's will that God specifically caused that driver to go on that shooting rampage. But God's will includes sin, since sin was the result of the fall of man in the Garden of Eden. God can and very well may use the hatred and anger in that man's heart for some purpose of his own, we don't know yet and may never no.<br /><br />What life is all about is no mystery, no secret and is very easy to see. Isaiah 46 makes it very clear what life is all about - God created us to magnify, reveal, reflect, and glorify his magnificent character in all that we do. We are here to reveal, make attractive God's characte to this world. Unfortunately, sin, Satan, and evil exists. God created you to honor him, glorify him. He brings trials in to our lives to refine us, to lead us deeper into intmacy with him, he allows heart-ache, pain, and suffering, many times specifically bringing to us to show us that he is our greatest treasure and everything else pales comapred to him. Sometimes God will take that which we love the most away in order to show us that we need to treasure and love him.Gregg Metcalfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16413691313803396844noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7930553747640588156.post-7540134845839926452010-06-10T01:55:47.031-07:002010-06-10T01:55:47.031-07:00A much thought provoking post Gregg. I need to re-...A much thought provoking post Gregg. I need to re-valuate my beliefs apart from my own despair I went through 12 years ago I will tell you of another example of why such dreaful things happen,<br /><br />Last week in a beautiful part of England a taxi driver went on a rampage, first he shot his own brother, then in the course of an hour shot another 12 people then turned the gun on himself. How must his parents feel one son being shot and the other shooting all these other innocent people before ending his own life.<br />Sometimes I wonder what life is all about.<br /><br />I did enjoy what you wrote, excellent written.<br /><br />Enjoy your day.<br />Yvonne.RHYTHM AND RHYMEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11386975261804630799noreply@blogger.com