I understand the Fall of Man and the Curse, and how Adam and Eve brought sin into the world. But why didn't God stop them? Why didn't He stop Satan from rebeling to begin with? Why is choice necessary? Couldn't He just've made us all without the capacity for evil?
2006-06-07 15:33:16 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The universal sovereignty of the Creator of heaven and earth is the foremost issue before men and angels. By telling lies, Satan induced Eve to disobey God, resulting in Adam and Eve revolting against God’s right to rule. Satan thus attacked what is called God’s “sovereignty,” or position as the Most High. He questioned whether God rules in a worthy way and in the best interests of His subjects. Satan also brought into question whether any human would remain loyal to God. Satan’s boast was that he could corrupt any man and turn him against God’s universal sovereignty, just as he did with Adam and Eve. In the book of Job, chapters one and two, we read of Satan’s boast to God. Satan challenged God, in effect, that he could not put a man on earth that would keep integrity to God under temptation. Jehovah let the Devil put Job to the test, and Job’s integrity-keeping exposed the Devil’s falsity. So it has been through the centuries: God has permitted wickedness so that the all-important issue of universal sovereignty could be put to the test; and tied in with that paramount issue is that of man’s integrity.
But couldn’t God have executed the rebel Satan and his earthly subjects, Adam and Eve at once, thereby wiping out all wickedness? Yes, but if God had done so we would not be alive today; and, above all, the issue would not have been settled to the full satisfaction of all living creation. It would have been debatable throughout eternity—involving such questions as, If God had allowed the Devil a wide range of action, would this wicked one have proved his point? And had God created man in such a way that it was inevitable that he would revolt against God if tempted? Such questions had to be answered decisively.
This has required time: time to give Satan a wide range of action to let him try to back up his claim, and time “that men may know that thou, whose name alone is JEHOVAH, art the most high over all the earth.” Psalm 83:18. For the sake of this issue, God has permitted wickedness, but only until the issue is settled and God’s universal sovereignty is vindicated. The reason for God’s temporary permission of wickedness is well expressed in his words to wicked Pharaoh: “For this cause I have kept you in existence, for the sake of showing you my power and in order to have my name declared in all the earth.”—Ps. 83:18; Ex. 9:16.
2006-06-07 16:37:53 · answer #1 · answered by Maia-Kine' 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
God has made "us" without the capacity for evil. God knows evil is unreal, and nothing unreal exists.
These stories illustrate the mad thought that entered the mind of God's Beloved Child, in which "he" dreams he is apart from God, and everything, including himself.
We never left God, nor could we. We remain as created. Nothing has changed...nothing can change.
2006-06-10 02:41:04 · answer #2 · answered by Sky in the Grass 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God could have stopped man from sinning and made it so that all man could do is love him. But that is against the character of God, forcing someone to love you against their will is rape and God would rather have you choose to love him than force you. As for the suffering in this world that is caused by sin.
2006-06-07 15:50:49 · answer #3 · answered by Conundrum 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The parable of the tares of the field.
Mat 13:30 Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn.
2006-06-07 15:37:55 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because you can't have good without evil.
You can't have the dark without first having the light.
They're each a part of the other, inseparable.
2006-06-07 15:38:06 · answer #5 · answered by Spooky - Gender Anarchist 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
does you computer make you happy because it does everything you tell it to do? would you prefer a computer that you can interact with you and have its own mind?
Its all about love.
you can never control what you really love...there is always a choice
2006-06-07 15:51:16 · answer #6 · answered by turntable 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God wanted us to choose good or evil. So were not like all robots..
2006-06-07 15:37:23 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
is people responsibility, god is nothing more than a character in a book
2006-06-07 15:42:11 · answer #8 · answered by luiskarlos 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Maybe because God doesn't exist.
2006-06-07 15:39:45 · answer #9 · answered by Lotte T 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If what you just said is what God's plan is, then he should have just made us machines.
2006-06-07 15:52:23 · answer #10 · answered by drickdj9 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋