But the Papacy gave them indulgence to carry out all sorts of rapine with impunity…..
Even against their own who were aiding their non-catholic friends.
>Why did God put Adam and Eve in a garden with a poisonous snake that would lead to so much destruction, death and pain for thousands of years?
>Would you do that to a child of yours who was innocent and had no knowledge of what was about to happen to them and their offspring?
Actually, God told the Man exactly what would happen should he eat that fruit. Eve was merely deceived, but Adam wasn't. He disobeyed KNOWINGLY. He willingly and knowingly ceded the dominion God gave him by obeying the false doctrine of the Serpent coming out of the mouth of his wife.
>Their eyes weren’t opened until after they had “sinned”. And then they knew they were naked.
The "open" eyes to which this refers is the knowledge of evil. When they were without sin, they didn't need to know evil.
>Why is naked bad all of a sudden?
Because now they knew evil. When they didn't know evil, their nakedness had no meaning. It was inert in their minds. After they fell, the evil that inhabited them filled their minds with lust. Thus, what was good, became perverted.
>Weren’t they made in the image of God? Naked is good.
The image of God of which they were made was not their bodies. It was their living souls. And now that Man is of the corrupt nature not only is naked no longer good because of how he views it, but it is also rebellious since God instituted covering as a testimony against the wretched nature of Man.
>A priest was called and had us all kneel and started to pray the rosary.
>Is that a “generational curse”?
>Is that a loving God?
Adam's disobedience cursed all Mankind, not God. And yes, it is generational since the sin nature is passed down from father to children. It is an inherited slavery to sin. This is what it means when Christ redeemed His people. He redeemed them from slavery to sin by paying the price of the cost of freedom.
>Exodus 34:7
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>“God visits the iniquity of the fathers on the children and the children’s children to the 3rd and 4th generation”.
>wth is that all about?
That is about those who reject Him. He sent His Son to purchase His people, but the rebels turn from that salvation, so their wages of sin are not paid. As to the aspect of the 3rd and 4th generation, a patriarch of the family can potentially live during the lives of 3 or 4 generations. That patriarch is responsible to teach those generations in the Way of God. Should he rebel, and those following generations follow along in his rebellion, they are equally responsible. You left out the promise to those not rebelling, and it lasts for many, many more generations, because these are the ones who teach their children and their children's children to fear God and walk righteously.
>Why did God repent for putting man on earth? Does that mean God made a mistake? I thought God was perfect? Genesis 6:6.
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>“And it repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.”
God did not make a mistake. Repent means "to turn from". God turned from the wickedness of Man at that time because He is just and grieved against the suffering being caused. The reference to turning from (repent) is in the context of God turning from those generations to leave them to be destroyed. He had kept them alive until that time that there was only one remaining man whom He reserved to remain righteous to show that Man's depravity will utterly kill all of mankind. That God reserved this one man, Noah, was actually merciful, and also showed the opposite of "making a mistake", but that what He had ultimately determined would take place was the bringing of salvation through His Son, the only Man who would never sin, and as such, being the spotless Lamb of God to redeemed His people from their curse of slavery to sin.
But it wasn't only Constantinople. It was many cities in southern France as well. Even the Catholics who aided the displaced non-catholic Christians were slaughtered.
>Job was blessed “double” after all the hell he went through. His life was destroyed. He was a true and faithful servant of God for says so. . >Where did that get him? And why did God put a spotlight on his faithful servant and ask Satan: “What about my servant Job”? That sounds like >a set up. Purposely put Job in harms way. Do you really think Job forgot his heartache or the wife of his youth? His first love. Or his family with >her? So what was she his “starter wife”? These are people that were destroyed. Living human beings who were loved and breathed . Does this >bring glory to God?
Job was faithful, but a close reading will reveal he believed his own goodness was worthy to receive only good things and justification. That is actually a deadly attitude, for no man can be saved by his own "goodness". In trusting to his own good deeds, he was denying God's provision promised in Gen. 3:15 as to the Seed, Christ Jesus, who would crush the head of the Serpent by bruising His own foot (the crucifixion, and His own death).
>God is the potter and we are the clay. There are some vessels that are created for destruction and others for glory. I am not feeling good >about this because I am a very broken and tired person at this point in time. Does that mean I am going to hell for eternity because I have >been beaten up by life? Maybe a few smacks too many? Am I doomed for questioning everything? Am I a vessel created for destruction? If I >completed my predetermined goal for destruction should I be cast aside for fulfilling what I was created for? Destruction. Or should I receive a >pat on the back for fulfilling what I was created for and “walk” with God?
It seems you have Job's unreformed attitude. Recognize there is nothing good within you that will save you from destruction, submitting to God's provision of salvation in Christ only. Your submission to Him and counting all your works and suffering as dung will show you are not a vessel unto destruction. As to the vessels of destruction generally, they demonstrate that there is nothing good in Man apart from God, and yes, this gives God the glory, and this glory serves to bring His lost sheep to Himself.
>Why does God …….speak so cryptically? In riddles? Yet through the riddles man still seeks out God and hope? We were so hopeful anons. Weren’t you just waiting to hear the boots hitting the ground during the inauguration until the last second? I was so ready for justice. And for peace. The whole world has been turned upside down. Now we have to understand that the children we have born and our grandchildren are in for a great tribulation. A lot of pain coming their way. Where is God?
God and Q are not the same, so I will not address Q. It is given to the sons of righteousness to understand His parables. The way they come to understand however, is to seek in all of the Scriptures for the answers with the Holy Ghost as the paraclete (teacher) shining the Light. Diligent search and study in the Doctrine of the Prophets and the Apostles, without the leaven of teachings they never taught or upheld, and in fact, rebuked, will bear fruit. As to tribulation, that has existed since the fall of Man, a man whose firstborn son slew his second son. Tribulation will continue as long as this creation exists.
>We always hope, yet never see any great revelation. It is always another day and hang on just a little bit longer. We never see God riding in a cloud to save us. Where is Jehovah Jireh our provider, Yahweh, the God of Abraham and Jacob?
As to the things of God (not Q), the revelation is certainly there, it's only blindness that prevents one from seeing it. Seeing they will not see, hearing they will not hear, nor understand and be converted. Thus, their hearts are hardened.
>I would really appreciate some direct communication at this point from God. But who am I to ask such a thing? A human being made in God’s image and so blessed and cared for. Is that asking too much? Or am I a heretic for asking such a thing? Go ahead dam me.
Seeking to hear from God is not heresy. God calls men to seek Him out. However, God is finished with Prophets because their job was to speak of Christ's coming as the Lamb of God. As Hebrews 1 says, now God speaks through His Son, and not through Prophets. His Son speaks through His Testimony, which is the Gospel. This is the foundation which the Prophets and the Apostles laid in order to build His Congregation, which is His Body, and Bride.
>At this point I don’t long for heaven but perhaps the peace and darkness of the grave. Perhaps then the pain will stop.
>why did God create Satan?
You will recall at the creation God separated the Darkness from the Light. Darkness is simply the absence of Light. Satan was ordained to be of that Darkness. The Darkness is to show Man that without the Light of God, Jesus Christ, who is the Light and the Life, Man cannot live. God didn't create automatons, but living souls. Those souls must come to realize Life can only come from the Dark. When the Man fell, Darkness covered the earth, the place where God had first said, Let there be Light. Only when the Man was in Darkness did he realize his need for the Light. His need, his poverty and dearth, is what causes the Man to seek out God, and God waits for each one willing to cry out to Him.
>Is God responsible for his own actions?
>Is that why he came in the form of Christ and paid for our sins?
God does not and cannot sin. He sent Christ, His Son, His Word made flesh, to be the spotless Lamb of God. It is only such a sacrifice that is worthy, but that sacrifice were for those who weren't worthy. By His Grace, His mercy, He saved them.
>Those souls must come to realize Life can only come from the Dark.
So very sorry, a grievous error there. Thinking faster than I can type. What I meant was this:
"Those souls must come to realize that Life cannot from the Dark.