RE: Proverbs 16:4
May 19, 2011 at 5:57 pm
(This post was last modified: May 19, 2011 at 6:03 pm by Statler Waldorf.)
I am not sure by which logical basis you think that inspired texts need to be written only at a simple level. The book of John is amazingly simple and yet has beautifully written underlying complexity to it. I think you are erroneously assuming that all people contain the moral ability to come to Christ, so a lot of people who "should" have come to Christ didn't just because they didn't understand the text. I believe this is a false assumption. We see in scripture that there were people who witnessed Jesus raise a dead man to life and yet didn't believe he was the Messiah. Why is this? Is it because they didn’t have enough proof? Of course not, it's because apart from the saving grace of God man is unable to come to Christ (John 6). Jesus also said the reason he spoke in parables was to hide the truth from those whom God didn't want to reveal His kingdom (Mark 4). So I do not think scripture backs up your assumptions here.
*cringes at your misunderstanding of the Biblical concept of omnipotence* Logically speaking, if He created all good creatures this would not demonstrate His justice. If He had created and judged all wicked creatures this would not show is love. So the only logical way to demonstrate both with His creation (which is still consistent with the definition of omnipotence) is to do a combination of both, which He did.