Hey Brad and Rhonda,
         Brad, your comments about Moses caused me to reflect upon my own
bible reading for this morning.  It's amazing to me how, even though God
knows all, He has a purpose in allowing us to struggle with the sins of our
fellow man.  He must do this for our sakes and our growth.  For example,
I'm reading in Joshua right now and, have you ever wondered why God didn't
just point the finger at Achan and tell Joshua, "there's your man!  He's
the one responsible for your failure at Ai.  Get him!" In stead, God had
them go through a big process of illimination to learn the truth.  Perhaps,
he was giving Achan a chance to fess up, but it is interesting to me that,
he let the process work instead of short circuiting it and cutting to the
chase.    Or, why did the people of Israel still have to honor the vows
that they made with the Gibeonites in Joshua 9?  After all, it was given
under false premises.  In today's world, if a contract is made based on
false information it is not binding, but this oath was binding.  We know
that because of what happens to Israel when they neglect their vows to the
gibeonites in second Samuel.  So often, what seems unfair, is used by God
to test the strength of our commitment.  How God works in our lives is just
so fascinating!!
Kathy
Always for His glory


At 11:51 PM 3/10/2005, you wrote:
>Rhonda,
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>It occurred to me that perhaps God was doing a little training for Moses.
>If you look at Mose's life, there are indications he needed a little
>learning, a little prompting. When he was to lead the folks out of Egypt,
>he said, "Who. Me?" God. You got to bebebebeb bebebe beb be ki ki ki ki
>kid kid kid kidding. I'm poor in spespespespespespespespespespe speech.
>I'm not your man!". When God was going to lead them across the Red Sea,
>Moses said to the people, "Stand by and watch your god in action". God
>said "Wait just a minute pal.  What are you holding in your hand there?
>Did I not give you a staff? Moses, you raise that thing up and take
>control here". So I'm thinking perhaps God needed to build a little bit of
>a confidence builder in Moses, get him to think a bit. While he was on the
>mountain, Arron built that calf and all, I wonder if God hadn't stated his
>desire, not necessarily his intention,  to wipe them out,  would Moses had
>enough guts to handle the situation without a little motivation. Just a
>thought. If god is omniscient, the question is not whether he knew he'd
>change his mind, but rather why he made it evident to us in his word
>through that incident with Moses, that  he  would like to. I'll tell you
>that you can argue God and Christianity with philosophy profs all the live
>long day and they'll argue the fact because of the need for faith, full
>stop. A while back I posted a note of an apparent dialog between a college
>professor and a student supporting Christianity. It first looked as though
>the student was losing but in the end left the instructor speechless.
>Anyone got that handy? rhonda might find that one useful hehehe.
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>brad
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>Brad
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>on 06:40 PM 3/9/2005, Rhonda said:
>Hi there: in my philosophy class we are doing a unit on the Philosophy Of
>Religion, and a discussion has been started,
>If God is omnipotent, how does that go along with his changing his mind,
>if
>he is omnipotent wouldn't He know he was going to change his mind?
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>What do you think?
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>Rhonda