If our effort to know God more clearly is not an effort to love him more dearly, it will be fatal.
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The Christian - the biblical - concept of mercy toward wrongdoers only exists in relation to justice. Showing mercy, in relation to wrongdoing, means treating someone better than they deserve.
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God gives life and he takes life. Everybody who dies, dies because God wills that they die.
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If a tornado twists at 175 miles an hour and stays on the ground like a massive lawnmower for 50 miles, God gave the command.
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You can't make yourself saved. This is very threatening to people, even Christians, because of what it seems to say about freedom.
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I can be poor, I can lose a job, I can have a hospital bill that I don't know how to pay, for I can do all these things through Him who strengthens me.
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