You bring up some interesting points, I will try my best to answer them from an limited understanding.
1) You may believe that, but I dont see any evidence for it. The "born this way" was just a political tool used by the LGBTQ community to fight for their causes, it worked! Lots of people believe that. I think a lot of people straight and gay alike wont admit to sexuality being fluid. I'm not talking about bisexuals, or the identity of fluid sexuality. Just that straight people aren't 100% straight and gay people arent 100% gay. But a person may have a stronger attraction for the opposite sex than the same sex, and vice versa. And under different circumstances you may change what sex you will go after. Majority of people are heterosexual, and a very small majority are heterosexual. That isn't the product of nature, it's a product of choices.
As sinners we are told which sexual behaviors are wrong, anything outside of marriage, and isnt between man and woman. That's the golden standard God has set. Look how man or demons are influencing the change of that standard! We have people marrying same sex, themselves, objects, animals, heck maybe sex robots/AIs in the next 10 years. Humans are trying to blur the lines of gender, but that's against God's plan for us. You can probably assume that anything that is against his plan that it will have some sort of negative effect. For example transgender men competing in women sports and beating women like crazy. Whether someone believes in God or not, they ought to see the negative impacts of gay marriage, it lead to even more nonsense such as transgender not being a mental illness because society says so, or trying to blur the lines of gender. Anyways I digest. I don't want this to turn into 100 different subjects at once, I just wanted to make a point that when man deviates from God's plans it has some very real negative effects.
2) I don't really like the argument of if you haven't experienced this then you dont have any clue. But I see what you are getting at, If you look at Genesis a lot happens within just a short bit of sentences. God creates the universe then after a few more passages Adam naming all the animals. So a lot has happened in a very short amount of passages, but that does mean more doesn't happen. If God wanted Genesis 1 to be a science book it would have looked very different and very long. When God says if you eat of this fruit you will die, I'm sure they asked him all sorts of questions. But that is is a lesson for us to have faith in God, if not we surely die. Which is repeated in the bible.
5) why would he talk about Satan? Because Satan was with the king, he was influencing him. That's why they say this to him.
Satan from my understanding is a spiritual being, he can't be in two places at once, he's not this red character with horns, and that satan and demons can only speak through human vocal cords. You see this exactly by when Jesus speaks to demon Legion who possesses a man. Legion speaks to Jesus from the man's mouth like an instrument.
Luke 8:30
Jesus asked him, "What is your name?" "Legion," he replied, because many demons had gone into him.
I would say he answered his prayers because he asked God when he needed something and if it was God's will God made it happen. If he would have asked something that wasn't God's will, then it wouldn't happen. I can't just pray and have a red lambo outside my door tomorrow morning.
I do believe things would have gone differently if he hadn't prayed. Plenty of examples of this in the bible. If it was not for God speaking to Moses his people would have still been slaves. If Moses would have refused, God would have found someone else.
Exodus 14:25
He jammed the wheels of their chariots so that they had difficulty driving. And the Egyptians said, "Let's get away from the Israelites! The LORD is fighting for them against Egypt."
Just look at George, he prayed to God because he had no food for the children at his orphanage, moments later a milk truck broke down and offered him the milk before it spoiled. Praying is powerful for the Christians if they are in good standing with the Lord. I believe God jammed the wheels of that milk truck, just the same with the chariots.
Perhaps God would have saved his wife from cancer if God needed her for his plan. We are all connected one way or another. For instance God puts toxic or good people in our life for good reason.
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