Why did God create people who would reject Him?
Why did God create people who would reject Him? A complicated question with an answer that’s perhaps simpler than you may think.
Dr. Michael Easley teaches from Philippians 3:4-9
“Although I myself might have confidence even in the flesh. If anyone else has a mind to put confidence in the flesh, I far more: circumcised the eighth day, of the nation of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; as to the Law, a Pharisee; as to zeal, a persecutor of the church; as to the righteousness which is in the Law, found blameless. But whatever things were gain to me, those things I have counted as loss for the sake of Christ. More than that, I count all things to be loss in view of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them but rubbish so that I may gain Christ, and may be found in Him, not having a righteousness of my own derived from the Law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which comes from God on the basis of faith.”
Also mentioned in this teaching: Philippians 1:21
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Why did God create people who would reject Him? A complicated question with an answer that’s perhaps simpler than you may think.
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