Ok, so I was out getting some tires in Wilmington the other day and came across some tracts from some publisher. This one caught my eye! It said "3 things God cannot do!" First of all there is NOTHING that God CANNOT do if HE wants to do it!
I open the tract and look inside and see the 3 things.
The first is "God cannot lie", while I am sure He can lie if He wanted to since He is God, but I think this would have been better approached by saying that God does not falter from His promises or something similar to that. I mean I get the idea behind these tracts but to me this whole scare tactic of this particular one is not going to get the attention of someone who has fear in them already! How many times does the Bible say do not fear? 365 times! Is that a coincidence to how many days of the year there are? I think not!
Numbers 23:19
God is not human, that he should lie, not a human being, that he should change his mind. Does he speak and then not act? Does he promise and not fulfill?
#2 God cannot change! I agree that God does not change and He is the same God today that He has been since the beginning of time!
Psalm 55:19
God, who is enthroned from of old, who does not change— he will hear them and humble them, because they have no fear of God.
Alright now here is the one that got me in a little bit of an uproar while reading it!
#3. God CANNOT allow sinner into heaven.
Can I stop for a minute and say that God and Jesus must be awful lonely up in heaven! They would be all alone! My Bible doesn't say that if you HAVE sinned you CANNOT get into heaven! It does however say this:
Romans 3:22-24
New International Version (NIV)
22 This righteousness is given through faith in[a] Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no difference between Jew and Gentile, 23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, 24 and all are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus.
Being redeemed sounds 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 times better than being condemned! My God is THE redeeming God, My God is THE God of Salvation, My God is THE God of Love, My God is THE King of Kings, The Great Deliverer, The Alpha and Omega, Yahweh, The Way The Truth & The Life, Advocate, Prince of Peace..... I could go on and on!
I open the tract and look inside and see the 3 things.
The first is "God cannot lie", while I am sure He can lie if He wanted to since He is God, but I think this would have been better approached by saying that God does not falter from His promises or something similar to that. I mean I get the idea behind these tracts but to me this whole scare tactic of this particular one is not going to get the attention of someone who has fear in them already! How many times does the Bible say do not fear? 365 times! Is that a coincidence to how many days of the year there are? I think not!
Numbers 23:19
God is not human, that he should lie, not a human being, that he should change his mind. Does he speak and then not act? Does he promise and not fulfill?
#2 God cannot change! I agree that God does not change and He is the same God today that He has been since the beginning of time!
Psalm 55:19
God, who is enthroned from of old, who does not change— he will hear them and humble them, because they have no fear of God.
Alright now here is the one that got me in a little bit of an uproar while reading it!
#3. God CANNOT allow sinner into heaven.
Can I stop for a minute and say that God and Jesus must be awful lonely up in heaven! They would be all alone! My Bible doesn't say that if you HAVE sinned you CANNOT get into heaven! It does however say this:
Romans 3:22-24
New International Version (NIV)
22 This righteousness is given through faith in[a] Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no difference between Jew and Gentile, 23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, 24 and all are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus.
Being redeemed sounds 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 times better than being condemned! My God is THE redeeming God, My God is THE God of Salvation, My God is THE God of Love, My God is THE King of Kings, The Great Deliverer, The Alpha and Omega, Yahweh, The Way The Truth & The Life, Advocate, Prince of Peace..... I could go on and on!
It bother me that some random person is going to pick up one of these tracts and read that statement "God cannot allow sinners into Heaven" and read no further because of how condemning that will make them feel.
Shouldn't it read "God loves you enough that He gave His best just for you, and even though you have junk in your life He is SOOOO BIG that He will accept you just the way you are junk and all!" instead?
Am I wrong to be upset by this tract? Am I the only one who is strong in their faith and as a Christian kind of finds wording like this offensive?
Please any and all rebuttals welcome!
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