Re: Psalm 7: EBTC Insights
Mitchell Holman <[email protected]>
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Christ Rose <[email protected]> wrote in news:202513e5-58ce-426a- [email protected]: > ======================================== > Mon, 17 Aug 2026 18:40:43 +0000, > <[email protected]> > Mitchell Holman <[email protected]> wrote: > ======================================== > >> Christ Rose <[email protected]> wrote in news:e43fac83-c60e-48d7- >> [email protected]: >> >>> ======================================== >>> Mon, 17 Aug 2026 02:34:59 +0000, >>> <[email protected]> >>> Mitchell Holman <[email protected]> wrote: >>> ======================================== >>> >>>> Christ Rose <[email protected]> wrote in >>>> news:[email protected]: >>>> >>>>> ======================================== >>>>> Sat, 15 Aug 2026 15:36:11 GMT, >>>>> <LH%[email protected]> >>>>> marika <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> ======================================== >>>>> >>>>>> Christ Rose <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>>>> David’s plea of innocence and assertion of contrasting destinies >>>>>>> between the righteous and wicked form the theological core of the >>>>>>> psalm’s middle section.[1] Significantly, God qualifies as a >>>>>>> righteous judge precisely because he penetrates beyond surface >>>>>>> appearances—he tests “hearts and kidneys,” knowing both >>>>>>> deliberate commitments and hidden visceral dispositions that people >>>>>>> conceal from one another.[1 >>>>>> >>>>>> I wish I had this kind of optimism. I don’t live anywhere near >>>>>> Ukraine, it’s only august, and I’m already scared to death of >>>>>> seeing all the articles this winter about people- especially elderly >>>>>> and babies- being found frozen to death in their beds. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> When you rely on Christ's death and resurrection as the just payment >>>>> for our sins, you live forever with God in joy and peace, even after >>>>> you die physically. He promises to raise you from the dead in a >>>>> glorified body (1 Corinthians 15). >>>> >>>> >>>> What about those millions who lived >>>> and died never hearing about Jesus. >>>> >>>> Eternal damnation? >>> >>> >>> Romans 1 shows the justice of God in the condemnation of pagans who >> have >>> never heard about Jesus, because they reject and suppress the knowledge >>> of God that's evident to them in creation. >>> >>> They suppress that knowledge with deeds of unrighteousness, by >>> worshiping creation instead of God, etc. Since they did not wish to >>> retain the knowledge of God, He handed them over to their own >> corruption. >>> >>> Thus it is just for God to condemn pagans, even though they did not >> hear >>> about Christ. The implication seems to be that if they had not rejected >>> the knowledge of God in creation, He would have sent them the gospel. >>> >> >> >> Ex post facto laws. >> >> What you did was legal when you did it, >> later condemned, with no notice to you, so >> you are at fault for not obeying it. >> >> Divine Justice, 101 > > > Since God's power and divine nature are plainly visible through what He > created, people are held accountable because they actively suppress that > truth, not because they lacked notice. Where does the Bible say that? > It is therefore not an "ex post > facto" law. > Explain the "divine justice" of God killing the firstborn children in Egypt who never violated any of God's laws.