Why wasn’t Day 2 declared ‘good’. answersingenesis.org/days-of-creati…

Isaiah 9:6 * No words * bible.com/bible/59/isa.9… t.co/ebOQdaXOE…

Mourn the state of society and the world. Know that it is all due to sin.

THAT is why our Lord Jesus mourned. Why he was a man of sorrows. It is impossible to be merry, to laugh, in the face of knowing ALL THAT SIN, the sin that he took upon himself on the Cross.

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But for our mourning, we are comforted, by Christ’s salvation, and the happiness and contentment that that brings. And the hope that lies in the new Kingdom, and Christ’s return.

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Why is there no record of Jesus ever having laughed? He was a ‘man of sorrows, aquainted with grief’ - but why? #MLJbeatitudes

As I confront God and His holiness, and contemplate the life that I am meant to live, I see myself, my utter helplessness and hopelessness. I discover my quality of spirit and immediately that makes me mourn.

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Mourning is our reflection upon this wretchedness. Our state of sinfulness. We must ask ourselves ‘what is it in me that makes me behave like that. Why am I not able to control myself’. We should hate it.

But we should also mourn the sins of others.

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@Curi_Christian Curious as to why you think AIG’s differs? Is it just their view on Genesis 1 or broader than that? I thought their article was pretty fair.

@Curi_Christian We all know the hot-button topics where there is a real tendency amongst people to try and minimise or rewrite the obvious so it’s less conflicting on their consciences.

@Curi_Christian I’d be interested in what your take is on a Biblical worldview. Mine is that the Bible is clear on most fundamental points around life, morality, sin, salvation and the only way to deviate on those fundamentals is to wilfully twist scripture to align with modern worldview.

@Curi_Christian I’m interested in the ‘door’ you’ve spotted on Day 2. Temptation came from somewhere. Maybe that ‘door’ is a clue…

@Curi_Christian Aah… 😀 On that I think I get where you are coming from. At each stage of creation things aren’t yet perfect - they are very good though. IMO perfection is reached when God rests. Until the fall.

However…

@Curi_Christian At the moment I think we’ll have to agree to disagree. But you have given me food for thought on Day 2.

@Curi_Christian It is mind-boggling. There is nothing superfluous and nothing lacking in Genesis 1-2. The more one reads it the more evident that is! People have been discovering and rediscovering this for millennia. There’s clearly something very special about it… evidence of inspiration IMO.

@Curi_Christian I was thinking of two points - that it was the ‘author’ of Ge. 1 that fashioned the numerological patterns, not God. And that God’s creation - at the point he finished - rested - was not perfect before the fall.

@Curi_Christian Definitely the best approach. Hence why I hold my Ge. 1 views loosely. There are points of doctrine that are fundamental. The Trinity. That Jesus was crucified for our sins that he died and rose from the dead. That salvation is a gift of grace and not works. These I hold strongly

@Curi_Christian I would be cautious with this line of thinking because the alternative is that man knows better than God. The patterns in scripture aren’t coincidental or man made. They are there by design to think otherwise risks making God secondary in his plan.

@Curi_Christian Creation was an activity with progression. He created Adam, and like any person in the process of creation he comments on his handiwork - ‘you need a mate’ and he creates one accordingly. Creation was a process of perfection only broken with the fall.

We have to be poor in spirit before we can be filled with the Holy Spirit. Conviction must precede conversion. A real sense of sin must come before there can be a true joy of salvation. That is the essense of the Gospel.

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“Blessed are they that mourn”.

People want joy without the conviction of sin. But that is impossible. It can never be obtained.

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But we will not attract other to the faith through forced brightness and joviality. We fail to see the true depth of sin AND fail to understand true Christian joy. A double failure!

That results in a superficial kind of person and a very inadequate Christian life.

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Chapter 5. Beatitude 2: Blessed Are They That Mourn (for they shall be comforted).

The world regards this as utterly ridiculous! “Forget your troubles” it says. But the meaning is entirely spiritual. He is happy who mourns in spirit.

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Absence of this in the Church is one reason why it is failing to evangelize. As Christians more closely approximate the Beatitudes, they are more sucesful in drawing others in. But not false piety. To be religious is not to be miserable!

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@AndrewS76825037 @CSLCHSnMore I could have written that! #HealthyFaithChat

@deadtosin610 I’d like to ask Moses how God revealed Creation to him. That must have been quite an experience.