This passage does not concern marital relations. ... That this is in the first place possible arises from the fact that the word “Lord” in the New Testament in general and especially in the New Testament epistles ordinarily refers to Jesus when used in a religious sense. Genesis records that God created everything within six literal, 24-hour days and that He called His whole creation “very good” (Genesis 1:31). He chose to give us [Christians] birth through the word of truth, that we [as believers in Christ] might be a kind of firstfruits of all He created.” (James 1:17,18) God has always had an “elect” on Earth who are appointed to serve as trustees. The specific sin of Genesis 19 was forcible anal rape of a man by another man. God has the last word! Therefore if God does not end suffering, then God is either not all good, or is not all-powerful, and is therefore not God”. In summary, the word sodomy does not occur in the Bible, although it does originate from a place name in the Bible. Hebrews 6:3, ESV. For two chapters, we get to bask in the glory of a perfect world, but then in Genesis 3, the devil struck. The Bible and the God of Life. And this we will do if God permits. His chosen people have the task of distributing the love of the Father to His beneficiaries. In our pain, we long to know why God allows grief and hardship into our lives. As Christians, we need to be able to answer this objection to God, to enable us to “give a reason for the faith that we have in Christ Jesus” (1 Peter 3:15). We all face suffering in some way, shape or form. But if we start with God’s Word, we don’t have the problem of the punishment before the crime because God’s Word provides the answer to the problem of pain. Given modern no-fault divorce laws and the allowance for divorce in cases of “irreconcilable differences,” both of which reflect a disdain for Christ’s teaching on marriage (Mark 10:1–9), it is unsurprising that many Christians believe divorce is never acceptable. [6] Arguably, if God exists, then he would intentionally fine-tune a universe’s laws, constants, and conditions so that they permit life like us. “God chose what is low and despised in the world, even things that are not, to bring to nothing things that are, so that no human being might boast in the presence of God… as it is written, ‘Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord’” (1 Corinthians 1:28-29, 31). Or the time God gave me a prophetic word from a friend, and gave my soon-to-be wife a prophetic vision, which helped prepare us for a dark, trying season in our lives. He is not threatened by this pandemic, nor is He surprised. God is sovereignly, graciously, reigning over the world in the midst of fear and panic. [5] A morally perfect God would value life, especially embodied human beings with free will, and so ensure the universe’s physical laws, constants and initial conditions allowed for our existence. He deceived the woman by telling her that if she disobeyed God she would become like Him–knowing the difference between good and evil. Let me finish the story of Leslie and I driving through the fog in Wisconsin. And God saw that it was good (Genesis 1:4, 9, 12, 18, 25, 31).