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The Nephilim are a subject of much debate. There are a number of views on what they were, the two prominent views being the Sethite view and the Angelic view. Both are an opinion on who or what the "sons of God" are.
The Nephelim are most notably mentioned in Genesis and seem to be a driving decision to send the Flood of Noah.
The Nephilim were on the ...
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The fundamental assertion of Open Theism is a fairly simple proposition - it posits that God experiences time in a fashion not unlike that of mere mortals. Unlike the more mainstream understanding of God's relationship to time - namely that God does not exist in time, nor is He constrained by it, in Open Theism, God, like man, is unaware of what the future ...
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Please see the following site, it should thoroughly and scripturally answer your question. Each answer link is for a different question there but each answers your question in its entirety.
http://www.gotquestions.org/if-God-knew.html
http://www.gotquestions.org/does-God-make-mistakes.html
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im proud as a being that you have asked such an obvious yet considered complicated question.
and heres my influence (power), good and evil or the moral perspective, is a human perspective. and not a gods perspective. which humans just tell each other that this is so when there only seeing it from one side of the coin if you like, infact for a god to say ...
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Covenant Theology
Redemption, as seen through the framework of Covenant Theology, requires at least two Persons. As Paul puts it:
For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, who gave himself as a ransom for all, which is the testimony given at the proper time.—1st Timothy 2:5-6 (ESV)
The Third ...
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Here's a few verses to add to what has been said.
Omnipresence:
"He is before all things, and in him all things hold together"
Colossians 1:17
"For in him we live and move and have our being."
Acts 17:28
"Very truly I tell you," Jesus answered, "before Abraham was born, I am!"
John 8:58
"But who is able to build a temple for him,
since the ...
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Mercy is when judgment is withheld from those who deserve it. God is merciful in that He oftentimes does withhold judgment and punishment from those who deserve it.
However, God is not merciful in every situation. If that were the case, He no one would ever suffer any penalty for anything they ever did. Hitler and Stalin would be completely without ...
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Another way to look at this, and I think the one that makes the most sense, is that God is in His very nature who He is, and we get our definition of "good" from this. I think the difference between this derived definition of good based on God's nature, and God just possessing the quality of "goodness" (and like qualities, mercy, holiness, etc), is best ...
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Google gave the following definition for mercy:
Compassion or forgiveness shown toward someone whom it is within one's power to punish or harm
Excluding the concept of sin excludes the concept of mercy with respect to compassion or forgiveness and punishment.
If one assumes that God is the most powerful being, the fact that the world does not seem to ...
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