"But so has God’s promise to remedy this sin, and restore people to a right relationship with him - through Christ.
"If God permitted the giants to remain in Canaan to test the faith of the Israelites, could this GM Babies news release, in itself, not be used by God to test our faith?" Diane....
I don't think the news release is as much of a test of our faith, as it is a wake up call that we are very near the end. Does God remedy sin?; Ask Sodom and Gomorrah.
What was the tipping point? The flood of Noah occurred in circa 1614 BC, and Sodom was destroyed in about 1395 BC...We see that only a mere 220 years had passed; about the age of America as a nation.
At some point, their evil was judged violently by God. Why did God not do it sooner? It had to tip the scales, so to speak.
They had crossed some kind of line in God's eyes, as Belshazzar had done later in Daniels day, when the hand appeared, and declared so. They had tipped the scales, and were destroyed.
For Sodom, there came a day and an hour when He rained down fire and brimstone in His wrath for their murderous abominations. I have stood on that plain. There is no other explanation for the sea of frozen granite, rolling like waves down into the sea of salt. It was melted by some Force. God is alive.
I see evil like this in that way; it will continue;
"But evil men and impostors will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived."
The good and evil grow up together, just like the wheat and the tares. At some point, God will judge the wicked, when evil reaches the flower of her sin, as will the Righteous when they reach the flower of their holiness; The Return and Gathering together of the Bride.
This idea of creating life our way is rebellion in a high order. We our gods; man is king and ruler. The Internet is very interesting, in it's vast ability to connect knowledge. A scripture has always fascinated me, and I relate cyberspace connection to it;
And the Lord said, “Indeed the people are one and they all have one language, and this is what they begin to do; now nothing that they propose to do will be withheld from them."
Nothing they propose to do will be withheld from them!....This is what God said! I doubt that we will see clone armies and supermen and the like, but the arrogance of trying it will bring judgment.
This is what the Great Tribulation is about; It is the trial you speak of Diane, and in the end, it will humble EVERYONE, and on His Return, Satan and the god of Islam too, and every wicked man and woman, burnt by His wrath.
Isaiah 24: Some of those who read this post will see this, before Jesus' return.
The earth mourns and fades away,
The world languishes and fades away;
The haughty people of the earth languish.
!!!...The earth is also defiled under its inhabitants,
Because they have transgressed the laws,
Changed the ordinance,
Broken the everlasting covenant.!!!!..[cloning included.]
Therefore the curse has devoured the earth,
And those who dwell in it are desolate.
Therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned,
And few men are left.
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" Worship God!" And he said to me, “Do not seal the words of the prophecy of this book, for the time is at hand. He who is unjust, let him be unjust still; he who is filthy, let him be filthy still; he who is righteous, let him be righteous[e] still; he who is holy, let him be holy still.”
We must remain faithful during the trial; the great Tribulation before his return.