The problem is that most generalizing is that it can confuse the issues at hand.
I have heard many sound bites that purport to be total truth, but being a soundbite it lacks the strength to have the WHOLE truth in it.
It can even be fundamentally wrong! And more than anything in the end it merely points out how LITTLE the person who came up with it really understands.
A few more famous examples are… “God is my Co-Pilot.”, “Name it and Claim it.” Or “God can do anything.” Or as I have already addressed here… “ God Loves the sinner but hates the sin.”
See all of these take part of the truth and then flips it into a trite and wrong concept.
My response to the first example is along the lines of “If God is the Co-Pilot you better switch seats!”
You see God has the plan in hand! He knows where we are all going and he knows how everything works! We do not! So if he is in the Co-Pilot’s seat then he is in the wrong seat. He needs to be the one we leave in charge. For that matter that would Make Jesus the Co-Pilot. And the Holy Spirit will Navigate for us and then we will reach our destination safely.
If we have any role on this flight, we are the stewards/stewardesses or flight attendants. We are supposed to serve all the other people flying with us.
We provide for their comfort as best we can, and teach them about the dangers we all face, and how to be safe in God’s care.
AND
Like the Flight Attendants of the Pre 911 airlines we have the amazing opportunity to take others up to see the Pilot (God) giving them the chance to Know him.
Now the next one is… “Touchy” because many of my own friends adhere to this belief BUT…
The “Name it an Claim it” crowd say, “you can have anything/everything you want. All you have to do is ask for it (or rather Demand it.)”
But This is what I also call the vending machine approach.
When you approach God with your list of demands, like this suggests you do, you are going to be disappointed.
God is not a vending machine where you put in your coin and press the button to get what you want.
He is the Lord of the universe. He is the one in control and he will decide what you need.
You cannot put God in a box simply because he is bigger than any box ever made.
As for the “God can do anything.” Thought… My statement immediately prior to this might seem to support this idea, BUT while God created everything and he is control of it all, He cannot do anything against his nature.
It would be more accurate to say that God can do anything... WITHIN HIS NATURE.
I actually had a young man once challenge me on this.
He was not a believer, and he thought he would stump me with his “logical” approach, he asked me Three questions.
First “Can God do anything?, and Is he stronger than everything?”
Second Can God make anything?”
Third “then Can he make a Rock that he cannot move?”
The idea being if God can do "ANYTHING" there is nothing he can not do.
But if he makes such a rock then either he is not able to do what I claim (the rock would be stronger).
But if he cannot make such a rock then he is not the all-powerful God We claim he is.
I confess that I was floored because I answered too quickly,without thinking it through, and I was not as learned as I ought to have been.
This is one reason that I wanted to post this, so you all won’t make my mistake, but the fact is that God would not make a rock that he couldn’t move. He won’t/ can’t go against his nature.
This is also why he can not allow sin in his presence. It is against his nature and cannot abide with/in him.
So Please read your Bible/s and get to know WHO God is. That way you won’t have these problems.
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