What if god actually exist...
07 Sep '15 10:231 editOriginally posted by C HessNo, it's when he decides to wipe out entire groups of people,
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In the case of Noah's generation, he preached for 200 years. The imagination of the thoughts of everyone was only continually wicked all the time. And the earth was filled with violence.
Why should not God reveal His judgment by terminating that society ? Why should God not demonstrate that He also can provide a salvation (the ark) for both man and animals from the need to terminate such a evil age?
Why should God not demonstrate that He is able to give the world's people a whole new start ?
or when he decides to punish not just the offenders but every generation that follows, or he punishes an individual for an infinit eternity,
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Eternal punishment seems to follow the only possible result of endless sinning. The unredeemed is frozen in a state of perpetual revolt.
If your soul blasphemes God in a time when His patience and longsuffering seeks to lead you to repentence, how much more you'll do so when permanently locked out of His kingdom of love.
As for the following generations suffering because of the transgressions of the forebearers, some of us have read the Bible more carefully.
The Moabites were a people rejected from being in the congregation of the Lord to the tenth generation. Yet the book of Ruth is dedicated to the story of a Moabitess woman who sought God and God's people. Grace intervened as an example that we need not be totally bound by the past.
The family of Korah rebelled so bad that God caused the earth to open up and swallow them down alive into Sheol. Yet some of his descendants were even authors of the Psalms of praise to God. Some of the Psalms were written by the sons of Korah as a testimony of God's mercy.
Many such instances can be found in the Bible. But you don't read them because you only want to collect reasons to condemn God and self justify your own sinning. Wherever you are in the lineage of sinners that preceded you, it is better to come to Christ just admitting that you stand in need of salvation.
Claiming "I am unfairly suffering for the sins of someone who offended God before me" is not a working excuse. That is why Christ has come to die for our redemption. That is why He comes to live in us so that we enjoy His obedience and righteousness as our covering outwardly and our inward power to live within us.
All of your accusation is saying that the Son of God has not come. But He has. And He has made rich provision for the problem of guilt and power of sinning.
There is no good reason not to receive such love from God. There is no good reason to continue in such a dark life of sinning when salvation is in Christ to save from its guilt and power.
He calls man to "reason" about this and do the reasonable thing to come to His love and mercy for forgiveness and transformed living.
"Come now and let us reason together, Says Jehovah. Though your sins are like scarlet, They will be as white as snow. Though they are as red as crimson, They will be like wool. " (Osaoah 1:18)
Though the people had guilty ancestors and were themselves guilty, God calls them to be reasonable about it. Though their crimes are as red as scarlet and their evil is like a crimson stain, His forgiveness will totally justify them as if they had never sinned.
So He is calling us to be reasonable and be saved in His redeeming love. We can have a fresh new start with the Spirit of God living within our hearts.
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