@ Darkstar, thank you for reading the scriptures, this makes it easier to have a discussion. I did notice that you said you read the first chapter of Judges, I believe I asked if you would read the first four chapters. I also noticed you had no comment on Judges, the reason for reading Judges is this, God being omniscient knew that the Israelites would not trust Him in all things and disobey Him. So, in Judges we are told that some of the peoples of the land were spared to be a punishment to Israel for their disobedience.
This is why the Judah could not defeat the iron clad chariots, not because God could not do it, because He would not do it. I know it says God was with Judah, this necessarily does not mean He would give them complete success after they disobeyed Him, however He did not allow them to be defeated and did give over all the land and peoples to them. Also the people who were defeated were not made slaves in the sense we know of slavery.
Chernobyl is the Russian word for wormwood, it carries the same meaning, bitter. Bitter is another word to describe water that is unfit to drink. Chernobyl = wormwood= bitter.
I'm not trying to tell you that Chernobyl is the completion of the third trumpet, what I was trying to say was that God works through man to complete His will. God does not tell the men who wrote the scriptures exactly what to write, could you see the expression on John's face when God explained what a nuclear reactor was, he may not have written anything and though God to be crazy. If the third trumpet was Chernobyl all John could do is explain what he saw with the knowledge he had of the world during his life. So many people want to apply the ways and things of today to ancient writings and that just does not work, and people want to apply science to a book about the supernatural and it just want work because we do not know in our limited knowledge how to do that. Any way I was trying to show that God did not write the Bible, He inspired the writers and they wrote what they understood or saw in dreams.
This is why the Judah could not defeat the iron clad chariots, not because God could not do it, because He would not do it. I know it says God was with Judah, this necessarily does not mean He would give them complete success after they disobeyed Him, however He did not allow them to be defeated and did give over all the land and peoples to them. Also the people who were defeated were not made slaves in the sense we know of slavery.
Chernobyl is the Russian word for wormwood, it carries the same meaning, bitter. Bitter is another word to describe water that is unfit to drink. Chernobyl = wormwood= bitter.
I'm not trying to tell you that Chernobyl is the completion of the third trumpet, what I was trying to say was that God works through man to complete His will. God does not tell the men who wrote the scriptures exactly what to write, could you see the expression on John's face when God explained what a nuclear reactor was, he may not have written anything and though God to be crazy. If the third trumpet was Chernobyl all John could do is explain what he saw with the knowledge he had of the world during his life. So many people want to apply the ways and things of today to ancient writings and that just does not work, and people want to apply science to a book about the supernatural and it just want work because we do not know in our limited knowledge how to do that. Any way I was trying to show that God did not write the Bible, He inspired the writers and they wrote what they understood or saw in dreams.
God loves those who believe and those who do not and the same goes for me, you have no choice in this matter. That puts the matter of total free will to rest.
