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Lesson Study #12 - The Way of the WIND
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03/18/07 03:26 PM
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Re: Lesson Study #12 - The Way of the WIND
[Re: Daryl]
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03/19/07 06:38 PM
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From the Sabbath afternoon section comes this interesting comment: The ancient Greeks believed in fate; your destiny was decided beforehand by the gods, and that was it. This ideal was expressed in Homer's Iliad, when the great Trojan warrior Hector says to his wife (who had been begging him not to go back to battle, fearing that he would surely die), "No man will hurl me down to Death, against my fate. And fate? No man alive has escaped it, neither brave man nor coward."—Iliad, trans. Robert Fagles (New York: Penguin Books, 1990), p. 212.
That's not, however, the biblical position. We are not objects of cold fate; we have no predetermined destiny, except one: eternal life with Jesus Christ (Eph. 1:1-11). God's plan was for all of us to find salvation in Jesus: That's why Jesus' death was for the whole world, with no one left out.
That we all aren't saved shows that our fate isn't sealed beforehand. Our future is open. We have choices to make, choices that will determine our destiny.
Does everybody agree with the above comment?
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Re: Lesson Study #12 - The Way of the WIND
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03/19/07 10:53 PM
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I haven't gone through the whole week yet, but it seems to be shaping up as another case of what we wish Solomon said, instead of what he actually said. I feel exegesis is lacking this whole quarter. But that might be inherent to Ecclesiastes. I think we would have been better off going into Exodus after Genesis. That's how the Bible has it. But then, I'm partial to Exodus.
By God's grace, Arnold
There is no excuse for any one in taking the position that there is no more truth to be revealed, and that all our expositions of Scripture are without an error. The fact that certain doctrines have been held as truth for many years by our people, is not a proof that our ideas are infallible. Age will not make error into truth, and truth can afford to be fair. No true doctrine will lose anything by close investigation. RH 12/20/1892
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