Bible Discussion Thread

To continue.

There is the mystery of how one sin by Adam (not by Eve) could be the cause of all persons born from the seed of Adam (everyone, except Jesus) could possess a sinful nature without even sinning (from conception).

There is the mystery of how God makes a fertilized egg a living person with a physical nature, soul nature, and spiritual nature.

There is the mystery of how God everything that God does or allows brings Him glory.

There is the mystery of the plan of salvation willed before creation.

There is the mystery of how Jesus could be slain from before the foundation of the world.

There is the mystery of how God can indwell believers by the Spirit and if the Spirit is in us, then the Father and the Son indwell us also.

There is the mystery of how synapses in our mind create abstract thoughts, will, and choice.

There is the mystery of how it was that the universe first began with time, space, and physical laws such as gravity, wavelengths, magnetism, etc.

There is the mystery of how God can be everywhere at once and also in one place specifically such as upon the ark of the covenant or in the pillar of cloud and fire.

There is the mystery of how God can know everything past, present and future without using time to learn it.

There is the mystery of His sovereign power that is indominable.

There is the mystery of how God cannot change in any way, yet can act in time and space and become a human person.

There is the mystery of how God is not made of parts or components and His substance cannot be divided up into portions.

(divine simplicity)

There is the mystery of how God can be a Person and be life itself, self-existing as the God who IS, without drawing life from outside of Himself.

There is the mystery of how God is completely self-sufficient and self-satisfying. He needs nothing outside of Himself to be complete, to depend on to meet any need, any passion or emotion outside of Himself that He must receive from outside of Himself.