is it possible to get caught up with the wrong questions?lesterb wrote:Someone asked me recently how it is that evil started in heaven. Satan and the angels fell into sin before Adam and Eve did, so the first sin was actually in heaven itself. How does that mesh with our generally accepted ideas about heaven?
Of course the followup to this question would be, if it happened once, what keeps it from happening again? After we all get there?
I'd be interested in any good thoughts.
for me, a watershed moment in grasping "how God works," came when studying Hosea, reading how God, deliberately and harshly tested Gomer, with one singular intent: to bring her fully to Him, in obedience and love.
this isn't the only example in scriptures. it was the one that "grabbed" my attention.
God allows suffering, but, He has one intent: to bring us to Him.
God allowed His Son to suffer on earth. His intent? - to bring us to Him.
in the presence of God's Light, evil and suffering fade and are forgotten.
we will not understand in full. but, we can understand that much. if only we will.