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Satan’s work is to condemn and destroy, to take away man’s liberty and destroy his life. Transgression always leads men to act as Satan’s agents, to carry out his purposes against God and righteousness. In Nazareth Christ announced that His work was to restore and uplift, to bring peace and happiness. He came to this world to represent the Father, and He revealed His divine power by giving life to the dead, by restoring the sick and suffering to soundness and health. He was in this world as the tree of life. Satan is at war with Christ, the divine Restorer.
ST March 21, 1900, par. 13-15
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God's Judgments - By Action or Permission
We recommend reading this book first if you have not already.
Plain Statements on the Character of God
We recommend this book for further reading.

We’re told to take the Bible as it reads, and we should do this a majority of the time. Yet at times, a plain reading results in apparent contradictions:

  • Who assaulted Job: God (Job 2:3) or Satan (1:12)?
  • Who hardened Pharaoh’s heart: God (Ex. 4:12) or Pharaoh (Ex. 8:15)?
  • Who sent serpents to bite Israel: God (Num. 21:5-6) or the Destroyer (1 Cor. 10:9-10)?

Could we imagine Jesus doing any of the above? Do we accept the texts at face value which describe God doing these things? Or does Christ provide the lens for understanding God’s true character, inviting us to look beyond the surface? Jesus said “He that hath seen me hath seen the Father" (Jn. 14:9), and Ellen White agreed when she wrote that “All that man needs to know or can know of God has been revealed in the life and character of His Son." 8T 286.

How do we resolve the tension between these pictures of God and the life of Christ? This study will empower you to look beyond the surface of passages where God doesn’t look like Jesus.


This tract without EG White quotes:
https://fatheroflove.info/book/view/as-it-reads-tract