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This week we read 羅馬書 5-6. This section of scripture is spectacular!

The logic and reasoning is clear and striking. It leaves no room for misinterpretation.
羅馬書5-6 States the Christian gospel better and any summary or notes written by man.

I read Matt 5 in chinese. I'm not sure if it's my chinese problem. but that passage doesn't make sense. This passage, from my previous readings, is a very soothing, comforting, joyful passage. REally brings tears of joy to my eyes. 哀慟的人有福了! 因為他們必得安慰。

Matthew reignited a certain passion in me. Jesus' teaching targets the heart and not action. Not killing someone doesn't mean that you are not a murderer. Fix first your heart, otherwise all your entire efforts are just for show.

Isaiah in chinese was more drifty than ever! there are many vocabulary which i needed to recognise. of course i still don't recognise the words. I'm still unsure if it is talking about past or future events and who exactly the audience is.

I would like to meet Joshua. I think if i were not a believer, I would have to give him the title of the Biggest Mass Murderer in History. By the command of God, he single handedly wiped a few human races off the face of this planet. He killed people as if they were dogs or insects. Chasing them down and chopping their heads off. Men Women and Children! Many hk ppl who studied in religious schools would use this image of God as an excuse for their denial of God.

But there is a logical flaw here:
You think God is Cruel. This must be because you believe that God ordered all these peoples to be killed. If you read the accounts, the events that took place Must have been a military Miracle. God Kill all those men women and children in their fortified cities and in their full military strength. All done using a bunch of homeless nomads that had just finished roaming the desert for ages.

If you believe God is Cruel, you must have believed that God killed many innocent people.

If you believe that God is capable of bringing such calamity on people, then you would be very very extremely extremely foolish to reject and rebel against Him.

If you rebel and reject God, it must mean that you don't believe God is capable of bring disaster on you and wiping your shadow off the face of this planet. You must believe that God is incapable of deleting your very existence.

If you think that God is incapable of doing that, then you must think that God could not have killed all those people in Joshua. If God did not do these things, why now do you believe he is Cruel?