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He created someplace where he himself didn't exist, even though he exists everywhere, and then decided to put people there who had sin within them, or on them, or however you want to say it, because sin can't enter into the presence of God.
Right?
I mean, that's the idea.
You ever read the book of Job?
The book of Job is the one book in the Bible where God and Satan actually talk, back and forth. Now this is LONG after the fall. Satan has long since fallen from grace, he's been caste out of Heaven already, and he's now down here tempting Job and killing his family and his flocks, and everything else - and having a 2-way conversation with God and placing wagers on it the whole time.
If sin can't enter into the presence of God, how exactly are God and Satan communicating?
When you read the book it sounds like they're talking face-to-face right next to each other. There is really no other way they can be talking, right?
So, if sin can't enter into the presence of God, how does God have a 2-way conversation with Satan in Job?
Not only that, but if Jesus is God, and Jesus came down and lived among these "sinful humans" for 30 years, well, it sounds like (again) sin was in the presence of God - for about 30 years, and he didn't seem to care. In fact, he sought out sinners, it couldn't have been too uncomfortable for him.
Then you have Satan coming and meeting with Jesus and taking him out in the wilderness and tempting him. Again, sin and God in the presence of each other.
So, if sin can't enter into the presence of God, how are God and Satan communicating in the Old Testament?
And in the New Testament, how are Jesus and Satan communicating with each other?
TOUGH QUESTION FOR CHRISTIANS #26
IF SIN CAN NOT ENTER INTO THE PRESENCE OF GOD, HOW IS IT THAT GOD AND SATAN (the father of sin) ARE ABLE TO HAVE 2-WAY DIALOGUE?
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In one sense, sin is always in the presence of God because God is omnipresent. There is not one place where the presence of God isn't (from hell to heaven, he is there).
ReplyDeleteFirst you have to have the correct understanding of scriptures. Yes God the Father cannot have sin in His presence but God the Son can. It was the Son that talked to Adam and Eve. It was the Son that talked to Satan when testing Job. Jesus was around since before the creation of the Earth and will be around long after Judgment Day.
ReplyDeleteThe first mention of Jesus (although not by name)is Genesis 1:26
26 Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground."
The phrases us and our in the passages proves that there is more than one aspect of the Triad working there.