God is Love. God is good. Everything God creates is good, is created for a good purpose, and that purpose is to make love possible. So what, then, is sin and evil?
Adam and his wife were both naked, and they were not ashamed. [God created nothing ugly, vulgar, or obscene. Everything God created was good and was created for a good purpose; and since “God is Love,” that purpose is love. God created all things to make love possible in this material world.
40 Years Is A Biblical Generation * Moses spent 40 years in Pharaoh’s palace, 40 years taking care of the sheep of his father-in-law Jethro, and 40 years taking care of God’s people in the wilderness. Saul ruled 40 years, David ruled 40 years, and Solomon ruled 40 years
Why are you angry? And why has your countenance fallen? (7) If you do well, will you not be accepted? And if you do not do well, sin lies at your door, and its desire is for you, but you should rule over it
There’s a “resonance” between the Old Testament and the New Testament. Did you know that the eternal God has an eternal companion? Let’s read the Bible and find out!
The truth is, “God only knows,” because God promised Abraham that his progeny would be as countless as the stars in the sky (Genesis 15:5) or the grains of sand in the sea. But let’s start with what the Bible tells us.
“The Lord, the Lord God,
merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abounding in goodness and truth, keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and sin, but by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of...
Now Michal, Saul’s daughter, loved David; and they told Saul, and the thing pleased
him. ... Thus Saul saw and knew that the Lord was with David, and that Michal, Saul’s daughter, loved him.