Going back through the posts all I can find is where I saidbibleman wrote:Hi Ed my frined,Justaned wrote:I don't think I said God can change his word at anytime He gets a whim. I said there are exceptions to God's word throughout scripture. Case in point, Adulteress is to be stoned to death, yet in the New Testament was see Jesus telling one to go and sin no more. That is an exception.bibleman wrote:You can see it here:Grandfather wrote:Hmmm, I missed that thread, where was that said?bibleman wrote:After reading a posters response in another thread it seems that some believe that God can change HIS Word anytime He sees fit to do so.
But it is a great blessing to simply be able to believe what God says and then let it go at that!
If God says He can't do something then He can't. He is still GOD!
bibleman wrote:
Ed,
As long as you believe that God can just CHANGE HIS WORD anytime He gets a whim.... then you will never have faith!
Was Ananias and Sapphira an exception or the rule? Was the woman caught in adultery an exception or a rule?
People cheat on their tithing every day and don't drop dead. The law was if you got caught in adultery you were to be stoned. God made and makes exceptions every day.
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Ananias and Sapphira cheated on their tithe and dropped dead immediately yet today people do the same things repeatedly and don't drop dead. That is a exception.
Moses talked to a burning bush. That is an exception. A donkey talked to the prophet that is an exception. Samson had strength conditioned on his hair that was an exception. God told the children of Israel to march around Jericho 7 times and walls fell down that was an exception.
We can not take exceptions and make them doctrines is what I am saying. Nothing less and nothing more.
Begging your pardon but here is what you said concerning God's Word: God made and makes exceptions every day.
There are exceptions all through scripture,
I think God does things that look to us as being exceptions and God does these not based on His whim but based on His perfect timing and His perfect will. Two people in a car wreck one is save one isn't both were strong strong Christians.
Two people strong strong Christians, both with the same faith, same holiness, same talk with the Lord one is saved from cancer and one isn't. Two planes in the sky both with same number of people, same mix of Christians one falls from sky with an engine failure and the other gets safely an airport and lands with the same engine failure.
Jesus picked one man at the well of Bethesda to heal while thousands watched.
You might try to explain these but to me they look like exceptions. And since God hasn't explained them neither can you. If not then life on earth is nothing more than a formula which we don't have all the factors for.
However I believe it isn't a formula but certainty that we must trust God in all things, that what is important is not this brief passage of time as aliens on this earth but rather eternal life in heaven where to our perfected nature there will be no exceptions.