tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7497269559483769466.comments2023-08-05T13:26:06.433-05:00ALL THE TIME GOD IS GOOD!John W Reedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12531116927554358073noreply@blogger.comBlogger187125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7497269559483769466.post-88685835798918561292022-02-23T09:33:09.953-06:002022-02-23T09:33:09.953-06:00I agree with the majority of what your teaching, w...I agree with the majority of what your teaching, with the exception of the idea that your willingness to forgive has no bearing on your eternity. <br /><br />Mark 11: 25 “And whenever you stand praying, if you have anything against anyone, forgive him, that your Father in heaven may also forgive you your trespasses. 26 But if you do not forgive, neither will your Father in heaven forgive your trespasses.”<br /><br />Jesus didn’t say that if you don’t forgive others that you’d merely miss out on the earthly blessings, or that you’d suffer temporary consequences of your disobedience.<br /><br />Mdh93@hotmail.comAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7497269559483769466.post-48322785911042738222022-01-04T16:37:07.844-06:002022-01-04T16:37:07.844-06:00Amen. Gracias por leer mi articulo. Me da gusto qu...Amen. Gracias por leer mi articulo. Me da gusto que te bendicio.John W Reedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12531116927554358073noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7497269559483769466.post-48059049296946427592022-01-03T18:48:27.305-06:002022-01-03T18:48:27.305-06:00Amén! Gracias a Dios por esta grandiosa salvación....Amén! Gracias a Dios por esta grandiosa salvación.<br />Vilma Arpehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02545165199927677695noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7497269559483769466.post-20277984982330338082021-10-12T10:06:36.259-05:002021-10-12T10:06:36.259-05:00It’s clear you’re angry and bitter at God and blam...It’s clear you’re angry and bitter at God and blame Him for your poor choices and state in life currently. Jesus is the only way out but your perverted and twisted thinking is hindering you from seeing truth. May God open your eyes and the devil’s blinders be removed in Jesus nameJohn W Reedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12531116927554358073noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7497269559483769466.post-26709679838675729672021-10-11T21:08:18.824-05:002021-10-11T21:08:18.824-05:00Adam tainted himself. Who forced us to join the ta...Adam tainted himself. Who forced us to join the tainted bloodline so we would be tainted as well? Who put my soul into a womb conceived in sin (Psalm 51:5) and then knits my evil and tainted flesh over my body (Psalm 139:13)? That was God. You're right. God didn't force sin onto us. He forced us into sin. <br />"God should have forced all to be saved regardless of what they want." Nobody wants to be sustained directly by God's hand in hell. Is it violating my child's free will when I pull him out of the road? Is it evil to use physical force to prevent a suicide? How much more so hell?!<br />God already forced me into sin. I'm now addicted to the morphine and he knows it's killing me. A good parent rats his addict kid so he's forced to detox in jail, not giving the addict the choice to stop shooting up or we'll shoot you down. <br />Your quote in Thessalonians is a blessing Paul gave to believers that God might preserce their souls. It is explicitly written out, however, in 1 Timothy 6:16, that immortality pertains to God allone. Therefore to live forever in hell is done by God's hand. <br /><br />Love is desiring the best for soneone. It is a policy of benevolence. Setting up a system with a god so unforgiving and angry that you will automatically be sustained in eternal torment if you don't pick the right savior, a savior represented by people who are just as evil as other religions, is not loving. <br /><br />Jesus turned us from God's followers into his lab rats exposed to poison, and presents an antidote which tastes like garbage. Gordonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14735652522018102870noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7497269559483769466.post-79014949205718721622021-10-11T09:12:52.735-05:002021-10-11T09:12:52.735-05:00It’s apparent by your rambling rant that you don’t...It’s apparent by your rambling rant that you don’t know God or Jesus and seek a more new age, humanist fashioned, god of your own design. In all your ramblings you forget many truths. One, God didn’t force sin upon any of us. Adam sin and tainted the blood line, but also bowed his knees in submission to satan. All humans regardless of their deeds are spiritually dead, rebellious in nature and selfish to the core. A child though innocent is never taught to be selfish. No they must be taught how to share. God seeing mankind’s condition became the medication needed for full recovery. He gave Himself. He made it possible for all to receive. <br /> The issue with your new age twisted logic is you believe love means one forces themselves onto you. That God should have forced all to be saved regardless of what they want. In essence God becomes a divine rapist. Forcing Himself upon all. You are mistaken when you say only God is immortal. The spirit man is also immortal. Man is a spirit being. He has a soul, his mind and will and emotions and lives in a body. 1 Thess 5:23. The spirit lives forever. <br /> As for the Cross, Jesus made a way. Jesus paid the price. The difference between Jesus and Adam is with Adam’s fall he took all of humanity with him without choice. Jesus made a way to bring all of humanity back to God but only by individual choice not against their will. That is love. A gift given no matter how free must still be received. John W Reedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12531116927554358073noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7497269559483769466.post-4062928985722173102021-10-10T15:46:00.803-05:002021-10-10T15:46:00.803-05:00Is trying to equate the Don honoring the shopkeepe...Is trying to equate the Don honoring the shopkeeper's freewill to choose paying the protection racket or getting concrete shoes as the Don being angry? The Don is a good guy, "nice" to everyone who rejected his offer. The Don did everything to keep people from being killed by his Mob. <br /><br />Is honoring a toddler's freewill to play with a loaded firearm a loving thing to do to a child? The child cannot comprehend the danger that a loaded gun presents, just as man cannot comprehend the infinite hell that Jesus brought to the world. Before Jesus, there was no firearm to play with. Jesus gave the child the gun. Is that really doing everything you can to stop a kid from blowing his brains out? Tell him not to play with the gun you just put in his hands? <br /><br />Before Jesus, the kid could only stub his toes or bump his head. Before Jesus, we would receive according to our actions. Now our actions are pointless since any sin sends you to hell. <br /><br />If God truly loved everyone who rejects them, why does he call it "free will" to not want to play along with these threats and condemnation we are afflicted with for being humans as we were born? <br /><br />Why does he sustain their souls forever in torment, (immortality only pertains to him, (1 Timothy 6) which means that God is the one keeping them alive) with no chance for being euthanized, reformed, or purged of sin? Why is bodily death the moment it's too late? Why does God's respect for our "free will" expire so arbitrarily? <br />Is it respecting someone's free will to allow them to be deceived and then only tell them the truth when it's too late to make a truly informed decision that isn't simply choosing the right religion under a threat that is infinitely worse than death? How can you say God loves those who reject him when they don't understand (and cannot understand) what they are rejecting? <br />How can you say that God is NOT angry when HE is judging the unsaved to burn in hell for all eternity because they were human and didn't use the right escape clause?<br /><br />If the cross shows Jesus' great love for all according to your version of the cross, why is it that Sin is forced upon us, but the Cross must be actively chosen? Why is Adam's sin still more powerful than Jesus' cross? Why is sin universal upon being born, but salvation needing the luck of the draw, of being born in the right country and meeting the right people, being convinced at the right time? <br /><br />And if you can answer all of those questions according to your version of Christ and your reading of the Bible, why should I believe you over others who are making the exact same claim as you are making? <br /><br />Either your version of god is loving, or he's not, and his invitation to "come and reason" means that there has to be something behind it.Gordonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14735652522018102870noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7497269559483769466.post-45478123383561250862021-10-09T18:25:55.855-05:002021-10-09T18:25:55.855-05:00Your trying to equate God honoring man’s freewill ...Your trying to equate God honoring man’s freewill to choose heaven or hell as God being angry? Jesus loves everyone who ever rejected Him. God did everything to keep people out of hell. Again, look at the cross and see God’s great love for all. John W Reedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12531116927554358073noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7497269559483769466.post-81751239114238203652021-10-09T14:07:10.523-05:002021-10-09T14:07:10.523-05:00Don't 'good people' who reject Jesus r...Don't 'good people' who reject Jesus remain unsaved and go to hell? <br />Sure, it sounds bad the way I put it, but feelings aside, is my logic wrong other than "because I said so?"Gordonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14735652522018102870noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7497269559483769466.post-53394000625069926072021-10-08T20:47:16.998-05:002021-10-08T20:47:16.998-05:00Hey Gordon. I’m glad I know the Lord Jesus and the...Hey Gordon. I’m glad I know the Lord Jesus and the Father. I’m sorry your view of God is twisted and warped. Jesus demonstrated the Father. John W Reedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12531116927554358073noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7497269559483769466.post-57965408473329162662021-10-08T12:57:04.812-05:002021-10-08T12:57:04.812-05:00God in the NT is actually angrier than in the OT. ...God in the NT is actually angrier than in the OT. Eternal life in Hell was not a biblical concept until introduced by Jesus, nor was the father's complete condemnation of the whole world to eternal life in in the lake of fire for the slightest sin outside of Jesus. <br />In the Old Testament, hell was a dark resting place of the dead until the resurrection and judgement according to ones actions. <br />Jesus, Paul and James turned that around, revealed that God's judgement is so harsh that one sin outdoes a lifetime of virtues and warrants eternal life in the lake of fire, and revealed that Adam's actions forced us all to be sinners thereby condemned, whether we want to or not. <br />The God of the OT would burn cities and kill children. <br />The God of the NT sends all who don't believe his representatives (Christians seeking you as a convert) to have their souls sustained forever and ever in abject torment without interruption or rest day and night, using "death" as a euphemism for this eternal life in torment. The NT God's wrath is INFINITE compared to the OT God.Gordonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14735652522018102870noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7497269559483769466.post-35270247905640743472021-06-30T06:33:58.780-05:002021-06-30T06:33:58.780-05:00Amen. Good News. God is Good all the time Amen. Good News. God is Good all the time John W Reedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12531116927554358073noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7497269559483769466.post-76123072993151680672021-06-29T22:27:19.517-05:002021-06-29T22:27:19.517-05:00God is Good! I completely agree 100%.God is Good! I completely agree 100%.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01918672977645460202noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7497269559483769466.post-20629690650026114512021-04-18T14:18:25.521-05:002021-04-18T14:18:25.521-05:00Thank you David very encouraging. Thank you David very encouraging. John W Reedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12531116927554358073noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7497269559483769466.post-89253518156887168422021-04-17T22:48:46.768-05:002021-04-17T22:48:46.768-05:00Again, an excellent explanation bro. Reed!Again, an excellent explanation bro. Reed!David Wyatthttp://hallelujahtisdone.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7497269559483769466.post-39795579064475681452021-04-11T19:55:32.579-05:002021-04-11T19:55:32.579-05:00Thank you David glad it blessed you Thank you David glad it blessed you John W Reedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12531116927554358073noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7497269559483769466.post-39515018033823862542021-04-11T19:28:39.473-05:002021-04-11T19:28:39.473-05:00Praise the Lord! Thank You Lord Jesus! Another exc...Praise the Lord! Thank You Lord Jesus! Another excellent post, Bro. Reed!David Wyatthttp://hallelujahtisdone.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7497269559483769466.post-90602076769383167902021-04-09T02:36:45.001-05:002021-04-09T02:36:45.001-05:00Shalom ,a pleasure to let you know that I have bee...Shalom ,a pleasure to let you know that I have been to your website and have been so much attracted to learn more for our spiritual growth here. Indeed it is good work done and you are going to be a blessing to many who have not seen the light.<br />through<br />I am a leader of a christian fellowship group that has not yet got established to have well defined procedure of church worship. We merely meet for praise songs and prayers. It will be indeed wonderful for Jesusto get us through to His chosen servants whom to grow spiritually. I hope we shall find room in your mansion and from here get to truly worship our Lord in the right way and procedure.May Jesus bless you.As am waiting to hear from you soon on how we should fellowship together.<br />thank you'<br />yours,<br /><br /> Brother bonface from KenyaBonfacenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7497269559483769466.post-88176161615668714322021-03-08T16:20:55.673-06:002021-03-08T16:20:55.673-06:00Nice work man! Thanks for sharing the truth about ...Nice work man! Thanks for sharing the truth about God's amazing grace! Chris Esparzahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18096255049384614562noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7497269559483769466.post-63358476904942907912021-01-25T20:38:16.323-06:002021-01-25T20:38:16.323-06:00Excellent word bro!Excellent word bro!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7497269559483769466.post-55039788784845424582021-01-25T18:59:30.700-06:002021-01-25T18:59:30.700-06:00Thank you Riva. Please share this truth with other...Thank you Riva. Please share this truth with others. John W Reedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12531116927554358073noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7497269559483769466.post-67450762897838403672021-01-25T18:49:31.721-06:002021-01-25T18:49:31.721-06:00Thank you so much!!!!! Very well explained. - Riva...Thank you so much!!!!! Very well explained. - RivaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7497269559483769466.post-8937412991084728872020-07-16T23:45:11.559-05:002020-07-16T23:45:11.559-05:00I love you to sis. Blessings. I love you to sis. Blessings. John W Reedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12531116927554358073noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7497269559483769466.post-18026170174743996082020-07-16T23:14:43.661-05:002020-07-16T23:14:43.661-05:00I love you, my brother. What a pleasant surprise....I love you, my brother. What a pleasant surprise.Stephanie Finnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09765144404566746133noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7497269559483769466.post-78895466386264514472020-02-02T16:56:44.186-06:002020-02-02T16:56:44.186-06:00Brother,
I agree with you on almost all of the po...Brother, <br />I agree with you on almost all of the points, but as I read, one phrase, being a reasoning along Scriptural lines believer arose.<br />you said " The once for all forgiveness Christ's death purchased.."<br />Purchased from whom, or which market? <br />please help me and clarify if you would. <br /><br />Thank youIvan Gertsenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04940512350824578888noreply@blogger.com