09/30/13

Q83: Does God ever do bad things to stop other bad things from happening?

Yes. The Bible records several of them. To stop the young children seeing and following their parent’s naughty ways (unbelief) God decreed that those who so quickly forgot His deliverance and other miracles, made them (those aged over 20 years old) wander in the desert for forty years till the oldies had died off. (Numbers 32:10-15)

On another occasion God sent snakes among His chosen ones till they cried out for mercy. Many died, but God provided a solution, by telling Moses to make a bronze snake and put it on a pole. Just looking at the snake was the cure. (Numbers 21:4-9). All they had to do was 'believe-and-look!' But many refused and so they died!

Noah and the Flood was another. God saw that man had become very wicked. “God was sorry He had made them. It broke His heart.” So God wiped them all out except eight people. The lesson is still there. (Genesis chapters 6 to 8).

Something truly awful that God did was to have His only begotten Son - Jesus: be scoffed at, whipped, spat on and beaten, then crucified in great pain and suffering. Why? It was part of God’s ‘Rescue package’ to get us into heaven so God could have His family back with Him. Adam and Eve ‘messed up’ and God had to expel them from His presence.

Jesus is our ‘Pass’ into heaven. We could not be good enough by ourselves to get there.

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