July 29, 2017 WWJWMTD by Steve the son of John

Should God Be Tried For His Crimes?

Has God committed crimes? By the world’s standards, He has. Man thinks he knows the truth and he can decide justice. Oh, how naïve man is? Job discovered after God allowed Satan to kill Job’s family, have all Job’s possessions taken from him, made him very sick, and forced his wife to leave him—leaving him all alone, Job found the fear the Lord. He realized that whatever God chooses to do—it is always right and just.

Job came to understand that he is not God’s counselor nor can man understand the ways of God. Throughout Scriptures we read the phrase, "And God killed him." In Geneses God destroys the earth with a flood. Everyone dies except Noah’s family. And then, time and time again, God tells Israel not to allow anyone to live when fighting against his or her enemies. Why could God be so cruel and heartless?

Even in the New Testament after Christ’s ministry to mankind, we find God killing people or stating He will soon destroy the earth (reference to the book, The Revelation). Yes, God killed Ananias and Sapphira in the book, Acts of the Apostles, and in The Revelation, God shows no mercy either to individuals in His Church that either no longer believe in Him or do not keep His commandments, or to anyone who takes "the mark of the beast" by serving and worshiping Satan.

God does not take prisoners nor does He show forgiveness when He decides enough is enough. There are sins unto death (as the Apostle John states in I John) and there are sins not unto death, which we can find forgiveness for in Christ. Our calling in Christ is, "to persuade everyone to believe and love God." If we fear the Lord, if we believe that whatever God has done or will do is always ‘right and just’ then we must help the weaker church members who struggle to serve Christ.

God’s judgment will start with us, so let’s not be blinded that we do not understand the "God of forever" that is spoken about in The Revelation—the God of great judgment. Should God be tried for His crimes? The only crimes we find in creation is what man has committed! It is man who rejects the love of God that we have in Christ. This is the crime—not believing in Christ, and it is only God that will and can judge this crime.

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Dr. Steven J. Wentland www.wwjwmtd.com

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