Originally posted by menace71
G-75 (Steve) Hey I mean this with all respect to you. Think for a minute why would God not give you all of the light you need in the first place? Why a need for the light to get brighter with time? God knows it all already (If you believe in an omniscient God)God knows it already. His revealed truth will always be 100% correct. If this not be the case then ...[text shortened]... hecy it came to pass with 100% accuracy. There was no need to wait for further light.
Manny
There are many reasons why. First that scripture about spiritual light is written for a reason or else it wouldn't be there. And one example that Robbie brought out is it took the apostles a while to start to understand all that Jesus was teaching them and even then they did not learn it all correctly.
And with anything we are learning in life we in our lifetimes never get it right even if it's in black and white in front of us. Many of us have been studying the Bible or any number of subjects and we never get the full understanding of it. I still to this day read a scriture I've read a hundred times and thought I got it but then something happenes that now I really get it. And the Bible aslo expalins that many will read the Bible just the same as we can do but never see the meaning of even a simple scripture..and that's because God does not let them see with understanding. If the heart condition is right, it will be understood.
And you know the scripture that explains how some fall away from the true teachings because of time passing by. It causes a weeding out of ones who are not in it for the long run. They tend to grab at the first spiritual treat that looks interesting but when the truth of something that isn't really what their looking for comes up, they decide it's not for them. Remember the rich man who wanted to follow Jesus but then changed his mind when he was told to give his riches away.
So back to the point it is a way to test ones out and see where their hearts and motives are. Like I said I didn't write that scripture or the illustrations of the wheat and weeds. But that's what there referring too.
And are you sure God know's all before it happens? Did he know that Adam and Eve would fall and sin before they did? Did he know Judas would be the one to betray Jesus? Did he know that Hitler would kill all that he did?
I'm going to post this for you because I'm actually to tired this evening to type it all.
"This concept would mean that, prior to creating angels or earthling man, God exercised his powers of foreknowledge and foresaw and foreknew all that would result from such creation, including the rebellion of one of his spirit sons, the subsequent rebellion of the first human pair in Eden (Ge 3:1-6; Joh 8:44), and all the bad consequences of such rebellion down to and beyond this present day. This would necessarily mean that all the wickedness that history has recorded (the crime and immorality, oppression and resultant suffering, lying and hypocrisy, false worship and idolatry) once existed, before creation’s beginning, only in the mind of God, in the form of his foreknowledge of the future in all of its minutest details.
If the Creator of mankind had indeed exercised his power to foreknow all that history has seen since man’s creation, then the full weight of all the wickedness thereafter resulting was deliberately set in motion by God when he spoke the words: “Let us make man.” (Ge 1:26) These facts bring into question the reasonableness and consistency of the predestinarian concept; particularly so, since the disciple James shows that disorder and other vile things do not originate from God’s heavenly presence but are “earthly, animal, demonic” in source.—Jas 3:14-18."
So that's something to consider in thinking God knows all that will happen in the future. If he truely can see the future, then yes he would be a very cruel God to let it happen knowing the bad that would come along. Doesn't seem like the God we know, Right?
Also on the other hand all the truth we need to know is in the Bible and God gave us all we need to know in it for this time. It's up to us now to whole heartedly ask God for the answers and be willing to accept them even if it's not easy or the popular thing to do.
Jesus said his followers would be hated because of this.