Lee,
Your theology is so far off the mark, I hardly know where to start....
The "God brought this calamity" (sickness, disease, tragic accident, or judgement) on us/them is a boat load of crap from the pit of hell. You might think that's harsh but I'm sorry, that's what it is.
God DOES NOT bring calamity on us....he's NOT judging us for our sins and natural disasters are NOT "acts of God"... What you are ascribing to God makes him the author and originator of both good and evil. God cannot abide by evil so your theology needs a rethink.
Do bad things happen to good people...even Godly people...oh sure! Absolutely, but "God did it" is not the answer. The answer is that we are a world at war with the Devil and Jesus Christ is our champion warrior. The Devil however, "...prowls around like a lion seeking whom he may devour."
What you've done here is rip verses out of context and made a theology that does not line up with scripture, then doubled down by attributing the good and evil things that happen, to a (supposedly) pure and righteous God. The verses you keep quoting are (as OBP has already pointed out) spoken to a specific people at a specific time about a specific event. You keep trying to change it to a general statement separating it from it's original intent to it's original audience to make it say what you want it to say...but that's called eisegesis plain and simple.
God proposed a covenant with Israel. The Israelites agreed to that and entered into that covenant with God at the Mount Sinai with Moses. That was the deal and God had to honor the deal. When people blew it, they got the curses. And they mostly blew it. In the Old Testament God worked under an entirely different covenant than we have now. (Hint: You know Old Testament vs New Testament) The deal then was, “If you follow the law you will be blessed. If you break it you will be cursed.” (Deuteronomy 28 has 14 verses of blessing followed by 54 verses of curses.) The verses you keep quoting were curses under the Old Law to the Israelites. Not to men everywhere for all time.
We have to look at the OT through the lens of Christ. Because the Cross changed everything...including how God deals with His people. How do we know that? Look through the New Testament and find where Jesus put sickness on one single person. You won’t find a single instance. Not one. (Nope, the fig tree was not a person) Now let's look at the opposite side to the number of times Jesus healed someone. There are dozens of times that it says Jesus healed people. And it wasn’t always just a onesy, twosy type thing either. There are several instances where Jesus healed everyone in the crowd who was sick.
The NT makes it clear that we’ve got a whole new deal now. Jesus has finished the Law so the Curses are no longer valid. The OT prophecies and the NT confirms that Jesus was Cursed so we could be blessed. Jesus lived in complete fulfillment of the law. He never sinned and never broke the law. And then he suffered the curses that everyone in the entire world deserved because they violated the law and sinned. But Christ has rescued us from the curse pronounced by the law. When he was hung on the cross, he took upon himself the curse for our wrongdoing.
Paul tells us: “Cursed is everyone who is hung on a tree.” — Galatians 3:13
God is no longer cursing us with disease and calamity. Everything mentioned in those 54 verses of curses found in Deuteronomy 28? As believers in Jesus we’re now exempt from them because Jesus took those curses for us.
Your theology is so far off the mark, I hardly know where to start....
The "God brought this calamity" (sickness, disease, tragic accident, or judgement) on us/them is a boat load of crap from the pit of hell. You might think that's harsh but I'm sorry, that's what it is.
God DOES NOT bring calamity on us....he's NOT judging us for our sins and natural disasters are NOT "acts of God"... What you are ascribing to God makes him the author and originator of both good and evil. God cannot abide by evil so your theology needs a rethink.
Do bad things happen to good people...even Godly people...oh sure! Absolutely, but "God did it" is not the answer. The answer is that we are a world at war with the Devil and Jesus Christ is our champion warrior. The Devil however, "...prowls around like a lion seeking whom he may devour."
What you've done here is rip verses out of context and made a theology that does not line up with scripture, then doubled down by attributing the good and evil things that happen, to a (supposedly) pure and righteous God. The verses you keep quoting are (as OBP has already pointed out) spoken to a specific people at a specific time about a specific event. You keep trying to change it to a general statement separating it from it's original intent to it's original audience to make it say what you want it to say...but that's called eisegesis plain and simple.
God proposed a covenant with Israel. The Israelites agreed to that and entered into that covenant with God at the Mount Sinai with Moses. That was the deal and God had to honor the deal. When people blew it, they got the curses. And they mostly blew it. In the Old Testament God worked under an entirely different covenant than we have now. (Hint: You know Old Testament vs New Testament) The deal then was, “If you follow the law you will be blessed. If you break it you will be cursed.” (Deuteronomy 28 has 14 verses of blessing followed by 54 verses of curses.) The verses you keep quoting were curses under the Old Law to the Israelites. Not to men everywhere for all time.
We have to look at the OT through the lens of Christ. Because the Cross changed everything...including how God deals with His people. How do we know that? Look through the New Testament and find where Jesus put sickness on one single person. You won’t find a single instance. Not one. (Nope, the fig tree was not a person) Now let's look at the opposite side to the number of times Jesus healed someone. There are dozens of times that it says Jesus healed people. And it wasn’t always just a onesy, twosy type thing either. There are several instances where Jesus healed everyone in the crowd who was sick.
The NT makes it clear that we’ve got a whole new deal now. Jesus has finished the Law so the Curses are no longer valid. The OT prophecies and the NT confirms that Jesus was Cursed so we could be blessed. Jesus lived in complete fulfillment of the law. He never sinned and never broke the law. And then he suffered the curses that everyone in the entire world deserved because they violated the law and sinned. But Christ has rescued us from the curse pronounced by the law. When he was hung on the cross, he took upon himself the curse for our wrongdoing.
Paul tells us: “Cursed is everyone who is hung on a tree.” — Galatians 3:13
God is no longer cursing us with disease and calamity. Everything mentioned in those 54 verses of curses found in Deuteronomy 28? As believers in Jesus we’re now exempt from them because Jesus took those curses for us.
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