Our parents are responsible for creating a baby so they are responsible to care for that baby and child from the moment of conception, but God is responsible for creating humans such that there would be parents, knowing that sometimes those parents would not take proper care of their children. The whole system of free will – that God created man with -- allows people to get hurt by other people and animals to get hurt by people and other animals. It is a very cruel world that God created, and as Blu always says, the buck stops with God, since God is omnipotent and omniscient.
I mean just what I said, unless you are so naïve as to think that everything we do not like about our lives a can be magically changed. Maybe you never heard of the serenity prayer.
I agree that it was Jesus’ spiritual body that rose, but that is what most Christians believe; they believe that
the physical body of Jesus came back to life.
Christians do not believe Jesus rose with a spiritual body because that would not be a miracle. The entire point of the resurrection is that it was
the physical body of Jesus that rose from the grave, came back to life, and that was a miracle.
“The New Testament declares that without Christ's bodily res-urrection there is no salvation (Rom. 10:9-10). For He "was delivered up because of our transgressions, and was raised because of our justifi-cation" (Rom. 4:25). The physical resurrection of Christ's body is just as much a part of the gospel as His death (1 Cor. 15:1-5). The Apos-tle Paul insisted that if Jesus did not rise bodily from the dead, then (a) the faith of believers is useless, (b) they are still in their sins, (c) departed loved ones are lost, (d) the apostles are false witnesses, and (e) "we are of all men most to be pitied" (1 Cor. 15:14-19).!”
The Significance of Christ's Physical Resurrection
I believe that is a misinterpretation of the Bible, and what Paul said referred to a spiritual resurrection.
The Orthodox View of the Resurrection Body of Christ
“Orthodox Christianity has always confessed two things about the resurrection body of Christ. First, it was the same physical body in which Jesus was crucified. Second, Jesus' body, at the moment it was resurrected, became an immortal, glorified body, a body that was physical but was also imperishable. Both are important to a biblical view of the resurrection, but the former is the primary focus of this discussion.”
The Significance of Christ's Physical Resurrection
Read the above quote and weep. It says that the body was physical but was also imperishable, which is an oxymoron, because no physical body is imperishable. Christians just cannot give up this attachment to the physical body of Jesus which is diametrically opposed to everything Jesus said about the flesh profiting nothing, and they cannot even see the irony in that because they have been so brainwashed by the church doctrines:
John 3:6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
John 6:63 It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.
1 John 2:16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
Thank God for that! At least some Christians are rational.
I am not sure what you are asking me. I think the verse means that God is responsible for both life and death. Do you have any idea how much suffering death of loved ones, human and animal, causes? I have no words to describe it, and it is God’s design.
21 And said, Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither: the LORD gave, and the LORD hath taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD.