This is not an anti-Stephengo thread, folks should read his posts more carefully.
But I want Stephengo to know that our Bridegroom is a bloody Bridegroom.
Exodus 4:25.
Then Zipporah took a sharp stone and cut the foreskin of her son and cast it at Moses feet and said "surely art thou a bloody bridegroom to me"
When Moses had set out to go back to Egypt to take up his ministry the Lord had met him in the way and sought to kill his son for he had not been circumcised.
The way to God is through the blood, He makes no exceptions for anybody. You say it is brutal, yes it is but sin is brutal and God wants us to know it. He wants us to understand fully what sin has done to His beautiful creation. Man and woman are beautiful and sin has murdered them. God is not the Author of death He is the Author of life. He is not the cause of sin. It was not His will that man should sin it was rebellion against His will that man sinned.
But you are right, God must take responsibility as Parent for man's sin.
God so loved the world that He sent His only Son that whosoever believeth in Him should NOT perish but have everlasting LIFE. As Moses raised the serpent in the wilderness even so must the Son of man be lifted up that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish but have eternal life.
God demands death for man's sin but He Himself comes as man to suffer and to die in man's place.
Behold the Lamb of God who taketh away the sin of the world.
Yes yes, you want to come with flowers and songs, and children dressed in white. Incense and candles and I wot not what else, but God says come to Me through the blood of My Belovéd, if you come through His blood thou shalt find forgiveness and peace.
Moreover this is the gospel which works, this is the message that the Holy Ghost will back up and make good in the people you tell it to. This gospel is the power of God unto salvation to all who believe it.
But I want Stephengo to know that our Bridegroom is a bloody Bridegroom.
Exodus 4:25.
Then Zipporah took a sharp stone and cut the foreskin of her son and cast it at Moses feet and said "surely art thou a bloody bridegroom to me"
When Moses had set out to go back to Egypt to take up his ministry the Lord had met him in the way and sought to kill his son for he had not been circumcised.
The way to God is through the blood, He makes no exceptions for anybody. You say it is brutal, yes it is but sin is brutal and God wants us to know it. He wants us to understand fully what sin has done to His beautiful creation. Man and woman are beautiful and sin has murdered them. God is not the Author of death He is the Author of life. He is not the cause of sin. It was not His will that man should sin it was rebellion against His will that man sinned.
But you are right, God must take responsibility as Parent for man's sin.
God so loved the world that He sent His only Son that whosoever believeth in Him should NOT perish but have everlasting LIFE. As Moses raised the serpent in the wilderness even so must the Son of man be lifted up that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish but have eternal life.
God demands death for man's sin but He Himself comes as man to suffer and to die in man's place.
Behold the Lamb of God who taketh away the sin of the world.
Yes yes, you want to come with flowers and songs, and children dressed in white. Incense and candles and I wot not what else, but God says come to Me through the blood of My Belovéd, if you come through His blood thou shalt find forgiveness and peace.
Moreover this is the gospel which works, this is the message that the Holy Ghost will back up and make good in the people you tell it to. This gospel is the power of God unto salvation to all who believe it.