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James 4:12
12 There is [esti] one [heis] lawgiver [nomothetes], who [ho] is able [dunamai] to save [sozo] and [kai] to destroy [apollumi]: who [tis] art [ei] thou [su] that [hos] judgest [krino] another [heteros]? KJV-Interlinear
12 There is only one Lawgiver and Judge, the One who is able to save and to destroy; but who are you who judge your neighbor? NASB
God the Father authored and designed the divine plan. God the Son, Jesus Christ, executes the divine plan. God the Holy Spirit sustains and reveals the divine plan.
Everything you see, hear, do, and have, are courtesy of God (collectively all three members of the Godhead) and His plan. There is only one plan. All alternative plans produced by Satan or man, are false and unsustainable, and destined to utter failure.
All of your hopes, desires, plans, goals, and such, are unattainable apart from Gods grace.
There is nothing that you are or ever will be, that can change, alter, modify, or replace Gods plan.
Humanity, that's you, is a dust created physical body perpetuated by biological life, and a God given soul, filled with human life. When you are saved, then God establishes inside of you, a human spirit, filled with eternal life.
Remove the body and what are you? A floating out of body entity, incapable of doing anything or going anywhere. Your very existence and capabilities are due to the grace of God.
What can you command in life. Can you do something like redirect the wind or stop a storm? Can you prevent or cause your heart beats?
When you were conceived, God in His infinite wisdom, brought together all of those chromosomes, and there, in that instant, your physical genetic destiny was established. The color of your skin or eyes, your IQ, the defects you might or might not inherit, and so forth, all were determined in that instant of conception. Out of the billions of possibilities, your attributes were established.
Then at the moment of your birth, God again, in His infinite wisdom, placed you and your soul inside of your physical body. And there you reside, temporarily, until He removes your soul out from your body. Discarding the body and eventually replacing it with something more permanent.
Our permanent resurrection body will not be given to us until the resurrection, but after physical death and prior to the resurrection, there is another form of body, implied. We have that temporary vessel while in heaven, until the resurrection occurs. That heavenly temporary body is really never described within the scriptures, only eluded to, and more or less left to our imagination.
As dust, we cannot invent, design, or create life, and likewise we cannot destroy life. Just as we cannot control the economies or the weather patterns of the world, so also, we have no, and repeat that, absolutely no control over any form of destiny that lay before us. The details of this will be covered in tomorrows study.
So, how is it that we presume that we can judge, evaluate, or even critic anything or anyone?
