How far reaching are God's powers?

[MilesAbbott81]

It must be good to know "Truth".

It is, but rest assured that I suffered intensely before the Truth was made known to me. That's how it must be for the vast majority of us, if not all of us. So in a way it wasn't good at all...but overall it's certainly worth it.

People who have lived long enough to recover from teenage Jesus Camp experiences normally learn a little nuance about their religion.  They realize that the bible has contradictions, ancient story, myth.  They realize that the answers that the bible gives are often not sufficient to explain life with respect to a modern education.  They often find that they stop worrying about what their pastor says about what God allegedly thinks about their neighbors and just start living life as a human being.

The Bible only has contradictions to those who lack understanding. False "Christians" have done a great deal of damage to people through things like "teenage Jesus Camp" and the church system, which is the synagogue of Satan.

You do yourself no favors referencing modern education, however, as though it's worth a damn. Human beings have such little understanding of things like biology, geology, etc., that all they've done is tricked themselves into explaining God away with supposedly sophisticated theories. But God makes foolish the wisdom of the world.

You come here and think you have things all figured out.

Not true. I've figured nothing out. God has bestowed upon me, undeservedly, the truth about most matters (at least, I think most, perhaps not).

• The priests invented "sin" to try to explain how a perfect God could've created an imperfect world and imperfect humans.
  
• The explanation makes no sense even to an ancient mind, because it requires God to be the creator of sin.
  

The modern person has an understanding of DNA, evolution, the Big Bang, the history of the Earth, and that bad stuff happens because it can.  The modern person understands that physics, chemistry, biology, geology, and everything in the universe works according to an arrangement of relationships that we call laws.

I explained why God created sin (evil). If you don't accept the explanation then that's fine, but only a fool would say it's an unreasonable explanation. It's the only explanation that makes any sense, in fact, because it's the truth.

Where is your "sin"?  What does "sin" look like?  Is it a part of our DNA?  Does it float around in the wind?  The bible infers that sin is disobedience to God.  So, now the whole universe disobeys God because a person (Adam) living on some backwater planet became a conscious moral agent?

You have not clearly explained anything.

I didn't think I needed to explain such things to people who spend, apparently, much time considering and discussing these things. How do you not understand yet that sin is disobedience to God according to the ten commandments? This is very basic stuff. And the Bible doesn't "infer" anything; it's absolutely clear.

Adam was simply the first to fall. He fell because he had to; it was God's plan that he should fall, and that all men should follow in his footsteps, at least until Jesus Christ.

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So, let me get this straight.  Grand Nudger is going to the Pearly Gates, and God will say "MilesAbbott81 gave you a perfect cogent explanation, but you didn't believe it.  You didn't believe it, not because it was nonsense, but because I didn't want you to believe it.  I get a kick out of this sort of thing.  Go to Hell!".

You come across as very young and naive in your faith.

Did I ever say that? Grand Nudger has no interest in my explanations because he has no interest in God. His interest lies only in resisting God, and that is why he won't, or rather can't, understand me. He is a vessel of dishonor, destined for destruction until the Lord decides he has suffered enough. That may happen in this world...it may also not happen until the next. That is up to God.