Monday, January 30, 2023

 According to the Psalmist, the hands represent the character that separates the righteous and the wicked. The righteous oppose the wicked by God's law, which curses lawbreakers. The righteous have Christ as a substitute, and by speaking the curses, they destroy the power of the wicked. If we argue that God chooses to upend the power of the wicked, then why does God give us the curses? Vengeance belongs to God who curses the wicked. These curses are used by the apostles and prophets, and the Lord responds to the pronouncements.The Psalmist is asking for protection from harm that the wicked inflict with their hands. Their hands are a tool of violence.When we are pragmatic, we live with questions that are not answered and adjust our attitude according to our solution to the problem at hand. However, in God's thinking, all opposition is corrupted. This is why God determined good and bad in His choice of blessing and cursing.We cannot be like God because we do not have perfect knowledge of evil or corruption. God can choose perfectly because He knows everything. However, we only have a limited understanding of the corrupt forces opposing us. We always have to trust in people and situations with some degree of blindness. If God did not give us the ability to identify His line of blessing and cursing, then we would not be able to apply truth correctly. But because He has given us truth, we are able to apply it in the world. This would be complete chaos if we could not apply truth in a biblical way. The question then becomes: how do we apply truth in a biblical way? How do we avoid simply using it in a pragmatic way?We were not created to make decisions based on what is practical or efficient. When God makes a decision, He does not consider the person's circumstances. He makes His decision based on whether the person deserves blessing or cursing. God does not have any opposition in terms of His moral power. The object of His choice is either deserving or undeserving of His blessing. So we can conclude that there is no living thing that opposes God.We make judgements by what we sense. We are pragmatic, and we make judgements by what we hear, think, see, or touch. Because we are not omniscient, omnipresent, or omnipotent, we are still responsible to make moral choices based on the truth of God's word. This is why God gave us His axioms as He spoke them in creating and recreating the universe.

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