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spenlake
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Posted 12/19/2004 2:56 AM (GMT -6)

Lamentations:
Who is there who speaks and it comes to pass,
Unless the Lord has commanded it?
Is it not from the mouth of the Most High
That both good and ill go forth?

1 John:
This is the message we have heard from Him and announce to you, that God is Light, and in Him there is no darkness at all.

Spen Lake

Similitude
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Posted 12/19/2004 10:51 AM (GMT -6)

Spen,

quote:
Lamentations:
Who is there who speaks and it comes to pass,
Unless the Lord has commanded it?
Is it not from the mouth of the Most High
That both good and ill go forth?

1 John:
This is the message we have heard from Him and announce to you, that God is Light, and in Him there is no darkness at all.

I don't assume there is mystery here. I assume that when God speaks "ill," He is light. And that if we don't see it as light, then WE have a DARK and unenLIGHTened perspective.

BTW, the Lamentations passage is a good example of one that need not be absolute, in my opinion. For example, I have certainly spoken things that came to pass. I don't assume that "the Lord has commanded it," necessarily. I think the verse is asking, "who can bring to pass what they speak BY MEANS OF SPEAKING IT?" The answer of course is - GOD.

wjs

spenlake
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Posted 12/19/2004 12:29 PM (GMT -6)

I think that the "ill" spoken of in this passage in Lamentations has to do with judgment for sins. There is an interesting passage that links judgment and light in John 3.

“This is the judgment, that the Light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the Light, for their deeds were evil. “For everyone who does evil hates the Light, and does not come to the Light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. “But he who practices the truth comes to the Light, so that his deeds may be manifested as having been wrought in God.”

Spen Lake

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