God is the Creator of everything, so why did He create Lucifer? Even though Lucifer was created to worship God, didn't God know Lucifer would turn against Him?
Revelation 19:6, "...Alleluia! For the Lord God Omnipotent reigns!" Yes, our Father is omnipotent, all powerful, all seeing.But He is a Father, not a robot-builder. His creation was given the power of choice, along with all other powers and privileges attached to their level of being. Not only was man given the freedom to choose [...]
Is the Bible for everyone?
Yes! The Bible is God's Plan for the entire human race from its origin, its experience with sin and death, to its glorious return to perfection. We learn of man's beginning in Genesis 1:27-28, "God created man in his own image, in the image of God created He him; male and female created He them. [...]
Malachi 4:5-6 seems to be talking about the coming of Elijah in spirit, in two dispensations or time periods. The first is fulfilled by John the Baptist. Who fulfills the second?
“Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD: and he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse” (Malachi 4:5, 6). This prophecy describes [...]
Please explain Matthew 24:22, – And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the sake of the elects those days shall be shortened.
The context of the whole chapter of Matthew 24 is that Jesus is answering a question asked by his disciples in verse 3, "Tell us, when shall these be? and what is the sign of thy presence, and of the full end of the age?" So Jesus is letting the disciples know what will be [...]
How did Jesus go up to heaven – in spirit form or fleshly – since flesh and blood cannot enter heaven?
Jesus was resurrected as a spirit being, as the referenced scripture reads in 1 Corinthians 15: 50: “Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God…”So, when the apostles and disciples saw Jesus after he was crucified, what did they see? Was it flesh or spirit? We do know [...]
If God knew the world was going to be like this why did he created man.
You are correct that God knew "the world was going to be like this". With that knowledge He could have created man as a robot programmed not to sin, but instead He gave Adam a conscience (a moral sense), told him the rules and gave him the chance to prove himself. "Of the tree of the knowledge [...]