Wrestling with God
WRESTLING WITH GOD/MARCH 12TH A.M.
GENESIS 32:22-32
- GOD AND EVIL
- Whose Fault? (Jeremiah 12:1)
- False ideas
- God created the tree in the garden, so it must be His fault (Genesis 2:9; 3:12; 2:16-17)
- When Bad things happen to good people
- God planned evil for necessary purpose
- God deliberately cause evil to be present for our own spiritual growth
- Free will
- Genesis 1:31; Matthew 22:37; Proverbs 1:29; Job 15:5; Isaiah 7:15; Joshua 24:14-15; James 3:14-16)
- False ideas
- Whose Fault? (Jeremiah 12:1)
- GOD AND SUFFERING
- Why God?
- Satan has caused it, not God (James 1:13; Job 1:9-11; 2:4-7; Genesis 3:13-14; Job 1:8; Luke 22:31-32)
- Sometimes it is because of natural laws (Luke 13:1-5; John 9:1-3)
- Sometimes it is self-inflicted (Galatians 6:7; James 1:14-15; Hebrews 10:26)
- Strengthens us (1 Peter 4:12-19; James 1:2-3; 2 Corinthians 4:17-18)
- Why God?
- GOD AND HELL
- How can a loving God?
- Hell wasn’t prepared for you and me (Matthew 7:13-14; 2 Thessalonians 1:6-9; Matthew 25:41; 1 Timothy 3:6; Isaiah 14:12; John 8:44)
- Heaven is where God wants us to go (2 Peter 3:9; 1 Timothy 2:4; Hebrews 6:4-6; John 14:1-3; 10:27)
- How can a loving God?