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Mattumanu -> RE: Calvinism - One Stop Thread (7/7/2005 6:35:54 PM)
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This is what Habbakuk had to say to God when God said he was raising up the babylonians to enact punishment on Judah.
Hab 1:12 O LORD, are you not from everlasting?
My God, my Holy One, we will not die.
O LORD, you have appointed them to execute judgment;
O Rock, you have ordained them to punish.
Hab 1:13 Your eyes are too pure to look on evil;
you cannot tolerate wrong.
Why then do you tolerate the treacherous?
Why are you silent while the wicked
swallow up those more righteous than themselves?
Hab 1:14 You have made men like fish in the sea,
like sea creatures that have no ruler.
Hab 1:15 The wicked foe pulls all of them up with hooks,
he catches them in his net,
he gathers them up in his dragnet;
and so he rejoices and is glad.
Hab 1:16 Therefore he sacrifices to his net
and burns incense to his dragnet,
for by his net he lives in luxury
and enjoys the choicest food.
Hab 1:17 Is he to keep on emptying his net,
destroying nations without mercy?
To which God replies that he will destroy the babyonians as well. He even lists the charges of sin against the babylonians as his reasons for destroying them, even though HE himself raised them up for that purpose.
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