1. do the righteous really get angry that the unrighteous are saved?
Jonah 3:10 - 4:4:
"When God saw what they did and how they turned from their evil ways, he had compassion and did not bring upon them the destruction he had threatened.
But Jonah was greatly displeased and became angry. He prayed to the LORD, 'O LORD, is this not what I said when I was still at home? That is why I was so quick to flee to Tarshish. I knew that you are a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger and abounding in love, a God who relents from sending calamity. Now, O LORD, take away my life, for it is better for me to die than to live.
But the LORD replied, 'Have you any right to be angry?'"
Matthew 20:9-15:
"The workers who were hired about the eleventh hour came and each received a denarius. So when those came who were hired first, they expected to receive more. But each one of them also received a denarius. When they received it, they began to grumble against the landowner. 'These men who were hired last worked only one hour,' they said, 'and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden of the work and the heat of the day.'
But he answered one of them, 'Friend, I am not being unfair to you. Didn't you agree to work for a denarius? Take your pay and go. I want to give the man who was hired last the same as I gave you. Don't I have the right to do what I want with my own money? Or are you envious because I am generous?'"
would it be strange to be upset that someone else receives grace? do you feel this way?
2. the tree of the knowledge of good and evil (totkogae)
if eating from the totkogae grants knowledge of good and evil, and wisdom, then is it the act of eating the fruit that imparts wisdom, or the act and experience of sinning that imparts wisdom? can wisdom come from sin?
what is wisdom? is it the knowledge of good and evil? can you really know evil without committing sin?
finally, if the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, then wouldn't it be funny that eating from the tokogae also imparts wisdom?
3. i was running around my eunos area last night, and i was wondering what it'd be like to stop next to a bunch of foreign workers and evangelise to them. where does a ministry begin? with a calling? can someone describe a calling?
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sure the righteous should not get angry when the unrighteousness are saved. the problem is that some do right?
and gaining wisdom from eating from the tree of knowledge of good and evil was Eve's opinion. i wouldn't call it the same thing
i thought it'd be strange that biblical people would get angry. is it a caution for us?
i'll agree with you on the totkogae. and please use it's acronym. it's less scary.
when the 'righteous' are not aligned to the heartbeat of God, and do not love His people, disagreeing to the will of God - are they still consider righteous? i think its not strange that biblical people would get angry - for all have fallen short of God's glory and sinned. i think it's there to remind us, and to indeed, warn us of how sneaky Satan is! a good reminder of how jealousy sometimes can creep into our hearts and blind us to the will of God..
haha how philosophical these questions are.. it's great!
how about this.. is God fair? is God just? Are they the same thing?
I posit thus: God is just, but He is not fair. What do you guys think?
btw please don't go: OH HOW COULD YOU SAY GOD IS NOT FAIR?! HE IS ALL-LOVING!
think about what it means to be fair and what it means to be just. are they the same thing? =)
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