The Scriptures speak much about the rich and powerful overriding the rights of the poor by violence and craft: Here are just a few verses about it:
Woe to those who add house to house and join field to field, Until there is no more room, So that you have to live alone in the midst of the land!
Ezekiel 34:18
Isn’t it enough for you to feed on the good pasture? Must you also trample the rest of the pasture with your feet? Or isn’t it enough that you drink the clear water? Must you also muddy the rest with your feet?
Ps.94:6
They slay the widow and the stranger And murder the orphans.
Exodus 23:7 Keep far from a false charge, and do not kill the innocent or the righteous, for I will not acquit the guilty!
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I intend on posting more scriptures of this type relating to stealing land from the poor and the driving them out of it, this is just the first salvo.
I appreciate it. Just letting you know what I have seen.
See reply to u/VulgarProfit above for the second salvo. I'll get in to the Newer Covenant later, but I thought the case of Ahab was fitting enough to bring in. You may also be interested in my response to u/TheHumanPrimer as well.
Right? Too much God, needs more Q.. /s 🤣
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That first one sounds like a rebuke of suburbs.
One might think that: until one looks at the real problem. There was never a problem with living in either a 'suburb' or a city, or on a farm. The problems came when kings stopped reading the Law given to prevent unjust rulers from claiming land they had no right to. The idea of inheritance being a permanent thing is foreign to us, who sell land and buy it as we can afford. But the Israelites had a law regarding the sale of land, and sold 'land' was temporal - what one was really doing, as spelled out in the Law, was selling the years' crops until the year of Jubilee. (see link: https://www.blueletterbible.org/nkjv/lev/25/23/s_115023 )
Ahab, at Jezebel's prompting, stole Naboth's vineyard by having him murdered. (Sound Familiar?!) Isaiah comes and condemns him for this, and warns him of the consequences of his actions: https://www.blueletterbible.org/nkjv/1ki/21/1/s_312001
Though the consequences were delayed, they did come (in spite of Ahab's repentance). (https://www.blueletterbible.org/nkjv/1ki/22/29/s_313001)
Just like robocop, except BLM and antifa are probably not readily available on an island, so they gotta go to the climate change folks for arson
Well, I would think not. Either we have free will or we don't. If God so proclaims all human beings have absolute free will then that means he is NOT going to violate his own declaration. The stories about God and his wrath on humans... just aren't true. I am just guessing that none of the victims of so-called God-invoked wrath responses, or punishments, or revenges...opted to die from their free willed choice. Thus it was inflicted upon them. What sort of God does that? Not mine.
We have free will and God never, not ever, violates his own laws. Can he? Yes of course. But if he did means his laws are mere suggestions that he can violate any time he desires.
It pains me to point out the obvious... but, the very idea of wrath and God-invoked punishments are absolute projections by men of human traits onto God. We then declare God handles mis-deeds the way we would handle them... a compete projection of a human trait onto God. Don't be so misled as to believe such because it is a man-made projection.
Just stop it already. Gees.
Sorry.
This is too broad a definition for free will, for the reasons explained here: https://www.gotquestions.org/free-will.html
God gives no mere human absolute free will, partly due to the tendency to use the will wrongly. Absolute free-will would be a dangerous power to have - that's why no mere human has it, or has ever had it. Our free -will is limited by a variety of factors-
Our nature as human beings: We cannot simply fly over a bridge without a glider or airplane, as birds can.
The actions of others are not in our control. We may want someone to act in a certain way, we can even try to force another to, but in the end, people make their own decisions.
There are set limits by God as to how far He will permit a person to go before He steps in and deals with it either personally, through angels, or through other humans.
I disagree with your positoin... at least so far. We have absolute free will to use it how ever we choose. Period. Right or wrong. Good or bad. And keep in mind that those too are ambigioius terms. What is bad in Africa is good in California. Free will is purely individual. We have endless options. Yet in every thought, every feeling, every action we take is a choice we must make individually... first. "The ancestor to every action is a thought." A thought by you alone.
Now, having said that, show me some biblical writings where God said our free will is resticted, has limits, or such... and I might reconsider my position.
About #3: Any idea what those God-set limits are? Can you describe even one? Please share.
When someone commits a violent crime in the name of God against an innocent and thinks they will get off- They WON'T!
I Kings 21: 7 - 24 (https://www.blueletterbible.org/kjv/1ki/21/7/s_312007 )
1 Kings 22: 1- 38 , 2 Kings 9: 1 -37
Well to be fair, there are consequences for any use of free will... regardless of if it is used for good or bad. This is not a restrictive use of free will... because you can still make the decision. This is a consequence. Everything a human free-wills themselves into has consequences. I don't think there are any actual restrictions for how we might use free will. We use it anyway we choose. Granted, there can be severe consequences but at the end of the day we make the choice.
Even if someone holds a gun to your head to force you to make a decision a certain way... you still make the decision. Of course nobody can make the decision for others so yea, the guy holding the gun to your head might decide to pull the trigger and obviously you didn't use free will to choose to die. Even so, you didn't wind up at the end of a gun by accident. You were there as a sum total of decisions you made that led you there. Even if, for example, the guy with the gun thinks he chose you randomly... you made the choice to live there, be there at that moment, etc.
Free will is the most powerful gift given to mankind. We must learn to use it much more wisely. Thanks for your response.
God the creator does not violate free will in the scenes that he has no hand in it other than allowing others to violate each others free will… that has consequences.
Indeed! Everything has consequences. No way to avoid that. Yet, we have complete free will to make the choice that causes them.
Nearby hurricane blew by, sucked in air over Hawaii so you have high winds without the accompanying moisture. If anything, maybe the nearby hurricane pulled moisture away. Some powerlines blew down causing sparks in already dry areas. Combined with the wind and dryness you have baked the perfect storm for a wildfire of which this is one of the most devastating in US history.
Just seems like an unfortunate combination of natural events to me. Until I see sawed or pre damaged power poles, I'm not buying into this being intentional.
The marxist thugs are like rabid jackals and won’t stop until they’re put into cages and forced to stop. If you think these vile characters (in the linked post) are the only ones on Maui hell-bent on carrying out their puppet masters’ desire to set Maui afire, you’re kidding yourself. Yes, I’d like to live in a world where “People wouldn’t do that!”, too, but the reality is quite the opposite. These scum deliberately set off six fires in Maui just last year.
https://greatawakening.win/p/16c243DlNX/while-fnm-is-claiming-clymate-ch/
Listen to what the people on the ground are saying.