You don't have to end property tax, just restructure it. Average home turn over is every 9 years. Just tax a house sale at 10% each time it's sold. People can roll the tax into their mortgage. But you can actually own your property, no strings attached. If real estate agents take 6% it's not a stretch to give the government 10%. More importantly, cut spending in local governments to reduce the taxes needed.
I disagree. If you just look where they were standing on google maps you can clearly see they would have a vantage of the place the body was shown in every video:
You can see the building is in a depression, and where the photographer is standing is a raised area that would have a view of the other side of the building roof with someone lying down. It also shows that he could definitely be at the ridge in that video. Note you can see the rear of the building past the corner, and the retaining wall in front.
First, offered pleas shouldn't be so different from possible sentences. I would put the limit at half the years at least.
Second, what a waste. Whatever she stole that was unrecoverable needs to be paid back in multiples. She needs to be working to pay it. Pushing a broom. Crushing rocks. Picking cotton. It doesn't matter how. She should pay her literal debt to those she harmed at which point she should be freed. There is no way 30 years of work couldn't pay it back.
Man doesn't have free will. We have free agency. We can only act according to the complete definition of who we are and what we experience.
God allows evil to magnify his grace. No sin, no redeemer, no God-Man, no sacrifice, no grace. God made the garden, and it was all good, but heaven will be better.
Question: if glorified man cannot sin in heaven, does he still have free agency? If glorified man's agency is so altered by his perception of the grace bestowed upon him so that his mind shall never conceive of violating his Lord's law again, then his agency remains free, but his actions remain Holy.
"The angels, both good and evil. The Bible speaks not only of holy angels, Mark 8:38; Luke 9:26, and of wicked angels, which kept not their first estate, II Pet. 2:4; Jude 6; but also makes explicit mention of elect angels, I Tim. 5:21, thereby implying that there were also non-elect angels. The question naturally arises, How are we to conceive of the predestination of angels? According to some it simply means that God determined in general that the angels which remained holy would be confirmed in a state of bliss, while the others would be lost. But this is not at all in harmony with the Scriptural idea of predestination. It rather means that God decreed, for reasons sufficient unto Himself, to give some angels, in addition to the grace with which they were endowed by creation and which included ample power to remain holy, a special grace of perseverance; and to withhold this from others. There are points of difference between the predestination of men and that of the angels: (1) While the predestination of men may be conceived of as infralapsarian, the predestination of the angels can only be understood as supralapsarian. God did not choose a certain number out of the fallen mass of angels. (2) The angels were not elected or predestined in Christ as Mediator, but in Him as Head, that is, to stand in a ministerial relation to Him." - Louis Berkhof - Systematic Theology
At no time did I say Pharoah's acts weren't his own or that he doesn't have responsibility for his actions or that he had no choice. But I don't know how anyone could read the text as plainly as it is in Exodus, Romans and other places and not see that God definitely influences people by either secondary means, his direct actions, or by withdrawing his Spirit or by sending an evil spirit as he did with King Saul.
If this bothers your conscience, then ignore it at your own peril. You either build who you want God to be in your own mind, or you let God tell you who he is. God's purposes are his own and they are manifold. If he wants to hardened someone's heart for the purposes of showing his power and might in judgement over an entire civilization of people, that is his prerogative. Place whatever caveat you want on God's actions over Pharaoh except that God did nothing and let Pharaoh just do what he was already going to do. That is obviously not the meaning of the text. God is not impotent and when the text says he does something, he did something.
I'm not saying people don't have free agency. I'm not saying God chooses for us. I'm saying God, who rightly so holds every human life in his hand; God who can take life or give it at his own command in perfect justice; He works for His own good pleasure His will. If that means creating a vessel of wrath fitted for destruction, then so be it. Those are His words, not mine. How else do you explain entire civilizations that God allowed to exist with no special knowledge of him, doomed from their inception. Our loving God didn't have to save one person and he would have still been perfectly loving. To insinuate that our loving God has to by the necessity that you place on him restrain his judgement on the wicked whom he created in order for you to call him loving is disgusting and naive. It diminishes the grace that he offered you. We should look at Pharoah and say, "there, but for the grace of God, go I."
I don't condemn your statements but rather admonish you to examine whether your ideas about God are His ideas, or your ideas. I once stood where you are and put God in my box, and I'm sure I still do in areas that I am still blind. I only call your idea disgusting and naive because I certainly am disgusting and naive in far too many areas of my own life. Thank our creator that his grace is greater than our sin. I have no doubt given what you wrote that He loves you with His redeeming grace and if we met in person I would call you brother.
Exodus 4:21 is the setup. God says he will harden pharaoh's heart so that he will not let the people go.
It's mentioned numerous times that God hardened his heart throughout the narrative. He's not they only one. Deut 2:30, Josh 11:20, Isa 63:17. Ask mention God hardened individuals and whole people groups.
Paul confirmed this is Romans 9:17.
God raised people up, hardens their hearts fire they purpose of God showing his power over them in their destruction.
Romans 9:16 NKJV [16] So then it is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but of God who shows mercy.
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