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01-28-2009, 12:46 AM
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What is the ultimate purpose of God?
What is the ultimate purpose of God? Why did God create?
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01-28-2009, 01:04 AM
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Re: What is the ultimate purpose of God?
It's almost midnight on a weekday and you're pondering the meaning of life? You're a sick, sick woman and should be in therapy. 
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01-28-2009, 01:14 AM
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Re: What is the ultimate purpose of God?
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It's almost midnight on a weekday and you're pondering the meaning of life? You're a sick, sick woman and should be in therapy. |
I had read this thread and became a little agitated with the Calvinistic replies!! Hoping for some better responses here on AFF!
http://theologica.ning.com/forum/top...entral-purpose
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His banner over me is LOVE.... My soul followeth hard after thee....Love one another with a pure heart fervently. Jesus saith unto her, Said I not unto thee, that, if thou wouldest believe, thou shouldest see the glory of God?
To be a servant of God, it will cost us our total commitment to God, and God alone. His burden must be our burden... Sis Alvear
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01-28-2009, 01:16 AM
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Re: What is the ultimate purpose of God?
It's 3 am here on the east coast!!
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His banner over me is LOVE.... My soul followeth hard after thee....Love one another with a pure heart fervently. Jesus saith unto her, Said I not unto thee, that, if thou wouldest believe, thou shouldest see the glory of God?
To be a servant of God, it will cost us our total commitment to God, and God alone. His burden must be our burden... Sis Alvear
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01-28-2009, 01:58 AM
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Re: What is the ultimate purpose of God?
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What is the ultimate purpose of God? Why did God create?
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To have children?
Joh 1:12 But as many as received Him, He gave to them authority to become the children of God, to those who believe on His name,
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Let it be understood that Apostolic Friends Forum is an Apostolic Forum.
Apostolic is defined on AFF as:
- There is One God. This one God reveals Himself distinctly as Father, Son and Holy Ghost.
- The Son is God himself in a human form or "God manifested in the flesh" (1Tim 3:16)
- Every sinner must repent of their sins.
- That Jesus name baptism is the only biblical mode of water baptism.
- That the Holy Ghost is for today and is received by faith with the initial evidence of speaking in tongues.
- The saint will go on to strive to live a holy life, pleasing to God.
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01-28-2009, 02:12 AM
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Re: What is the ultimate purpose of God?
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To have children?
Joh 1:12 But as many as received Him, He gave to them authority to become the children of God, to those who believe on His name, |
But what about all the disobedient children? Those that follow the ways of their father, the devil? Why would God want to go through the heartache of something He created rebelling against Him? I can attest to what a grief of heart it is to have a child who doesn't walk with God.
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His banner over me is LOVE.... My soul followeth hard after thee....Love one another with a pure heart fervently. Jesus saith unto her, Said I not unto thee, that, if thou wouldest believe, thou shouldest see the glory of God?
To be a servant of God, it will cost us our total commitment to God, and God alone. His burden must be our burden... Sis Alvear
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01-28-2009, 02:17 AM
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Re: What is the ultimate purpose of God?
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But what about all the disobedient children? Those that follow the ways of their father, the devil? Why would God want to go through the heartache of something He created rebelling against Him? I can attest to what a grief of heart it is to have a child who doesn't walk with God.
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Does that negate the purpose? Ever hear the saying "better to have love and lost than to never have loved at all"? Humans take risks for what we want and we endure pain in the process. I think His purpose was to have others like him....see the end of the book for more 
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Let it be understood that Apostolic Friends Forum is an Apostolic Forum.
Apostolic is defined on AFF as:
- There is One God. This one God reveals Himself distinctly as Father, Son and Holy Ghost.
- The Son is God himself in a human form or "God manifested in the flesh" (1Tim 3:16)
- Every sinner must repent of their sins.
- That Jesus name baptism is the only biblical mode of water baptism.
- That the Holy Ghost is for today and is received by faith with the initial evidence of speaking in tongues.
- The saint will go on to strive to live a holy life, pleasing to God.
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01-28-2009, 05:02 AM
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Re: What is the ultimate purpose of God?
To establish the all-in-all; the union of creator and his human creation.
In my pondering and consideration:
God’s eternal purpose is to sow his word in the field that is all of humankind. Within the hearts of 'whosoever will' his word will find agreement and children will be born, a glorious treasure he has purposed for his abode, and in doing so, completeness is accomplished by love.
The one whose spirit anoints, and ones who are anointed constitute a body; together the Spirit, the head and the members establish a singular expression that is the Christ, what the scripture reveals as the All in All.
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01-28-2009, 07:40 PM
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Re: What is the ultimate purpose of God?
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To establish the all-in-all; the union of creator and his human creation.
In my pondering and consideration:
God’s eternal purpose is to sow his word in the field that is all of humankind. Within the hearts of 'whosoever will' his word will find agreement and children will be born, a glorious treasure he has purposed for his abode, and in doing so, completeness is accomplished by love.
The one whose spirit anoints, and ones who are anointed constitute a body; together the Spirit, the head and the members establish a singular expression that is the Christ, what the scripture reveals as the All in All.
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We know God doesn't "need" anything. He is complete in himself. If He was hungry, He wouldn't tell us. So are you saying God desires companionship?
Acts 17:24 God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands; 25 Neither is worshipped with men's hands, as though he needed any thing, seeing he giveth to all life, and breath, and all things;
Psalm 50: 12 If I were hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof.
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His banner over me is LOVE.... My soul followeth hard after thee....Love one another with a pure heart fervently. Jesus saith unto her, Said I not unto thee, that, if thou wouldest believe, thou shouldest see the glory of God?
To be a servant of God, it will cost us our total commitment to God, and God alone. His burden must be our burden... Sis Alvear
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01-28-2009, 05:20 AM
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Re: What is the ultimate purpose of God?
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Originally Posted by mizpeh
But what about all the disobedient children? Those that follow the ways of their father, the devil? Why would God want to go through the heartache of something He created rebelling against Him? I can attest to what a grief of heart it is to have a child who doesn't walk with God.
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Yet we still have children ourselves. We know the time is coming when children will turn against their parents, yet we keep spittin them out. Our own parents cursed us from a young age by saying the magic words.."I hope your children are as much trouble as you are" Had we understood the full power behind that incantation would we still have children ? Of course.
Maybe God has an instinctive power to be a parent just like us, after all, we were created in HIS likeness..
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