IF god is the almighty then why could he not create us from an ape.?

Question

If gods the creator then didn't he create all creatures aren't they all his?

Answer 1

maybe he did? :) how could you be so sure? :)

Answer 2

Okay, tough question, and many people probably won't agree with me. But, here goes:

Okay, so, God made humans with a specific idea in mind (at least, that's assuming that God exists, but we'll not even go there with this). Since He knew what He was doing, it wasn't by accident. It would take an intelligent person to know how to create the universe and everything in it, including us, thus God is intelligent. Then we can say that all intelligent beings are governed by a set of rules, so God must be governed by a set of rules.

However, God might not have to follow the rules that an intelligent man does. Being God, He’d be able to get around that. So, the explanation requires more.

Being intelligent, He wouldn't just be throwing things together and accidentally design the universe, would He? Then He wouldn't have intelligently, or intentionally, created the universe. He must have known what He was doing. To do that, He must have had some guidelines (or rules) to follow, just like a person making a house doesn't just throw stuff together, he has a blueprint to follow, he has the hammer, the nails, all of the materials. If he doesn't have them, he has to go get them, or make them himself. Then we build up from the bottom until we get the design we originally wanted.

Basically, what I'm saying is that in order to intelligently design something, He must have used plans, otherwise it was just blindly throwing stuff together until something happened. If that's the claim, then you can't say that God had a purpose in making the universe. By that, we conclude that He must have had a plan, a purpose, and carried it out. That plan, or purpose, required carefully following the directions (even if He's the one who made them, just like a cook making spaghetti will follow the directions, even if its his own ingredients).

Otherwise, it would seem that we're all just an accident, not God's intention at all. In fact, this whole thing was just an accident. So, that would discredit any belief that says that God has(d) a purpose.

This also explains why the theory of evolution makes sense. There'd have to be a plan, and as I explained earilier, everything is built up of the simpliest things, and just built up from there. That's most likely how God would create everything, if I had to guess, which would seem to mean that evolution makes perfect sense. I'll not go any further. I got away from the main point of the question, I think.


Now, if you look at evolution, and you look at the Bible, you'll see that they go in the same order. First the universe, then earth, day and night, then water, then plants, then animals, then humans. They both follow the same order!!!

Also, evolution doesn't say that man was formed from apes, it says that man and apes came from the same ancestors. But, like I said, if God created us, he'd have to start from the most simple first and work his way up, just like a carpenter starts first with the very basics. With this in mind, we can have an alternative view of the Bible, one that allows the Bible to work together with evolution to explain HOW God created us (instead of just saying that God created us). If He created us, there must have been a way, and evolution may, and I stress may, have been it. We don't know for sure, but that's the way evidence, and logical reasoning, point.

Answer 3

First of all God is always in caps. Second God is almighty be cause of how He did things. Let me ask you a question, " the Bible says that God made Heaven, earth, light and dark, land and sea ,and so forth. This was all before man was made so who else could do it, yep, God. Not to mention God just made the animals but when He made man it was done way different. Let me quote Genesis chapter 2 verse 7, "the Lord God formed the man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being". So in saying this can man make another man? maybe but can man do it like God, FROM DIRT? No, i think not. That is why GOD is Almighty. People may try or get close to duplicating Him but we'll never get the job done. And Thank God for that!

Answer 4

There are, generally speaking, four ways to look at Bible stories. One of these is the literal: we were created by the Hand of God. A physical hand gathered particulate matter and formed/built a human being. A physical hand was literally involved. Another way is the thematic or doctrinal or Epistascal.

One thing the creation story says is that "creation" requires something "new" to come in from "outside" and formulate the raw material and transform it into, again, something new. God, an outside agent, took mere dust, infused it with his breathe, and it became a living man. There were no living speaking organisms before God decided to make one - after He was done, there was this new thing called Man.

Evolution says that the material, through random events, can formulate and reformulate itself until a something "new" appears. Could mere randomness cause the huge jump in consciousness and capability that exists between the ape and man?

The spiritually alive person looks at this and says "no" - there is something larger going on here. You can roll two dice an infinite number of times and you will never get 13.

The materialist person sees it as possible: given enough time and variation, matter can be reconstituted into anything.

Answer 5

That is the reason why HE is Almighty! He created human beings from scratch...from the dust of the earth as well as every living creature. You can't get more MIGHTY than that!

Answer 6

In Genesis in the Bible, God said, "Let us create man in our image". God and the angels, apparently, do not look like apes. God created man (and woman) to have domain over all the other animals. He COULD have made us all look like apes, but I am glad He did not.

Answer 7

If he was almighty, why were there 15 or more other hominids that didn't make it, the most popular example being the Neaderthals. Only us homosapiens made it to the present. Maybe he made some mistakes and we are the new and improved models...

Answer 8

Because God created Man by His own image and lightness (thats Adan and Eve)..

Answer 9

Yes, He did create us and he did create all things. anything is possible for him, but why would you want to come from an ape?

Answer 10

the only reason he did not make us from an ape is because he had different plans for us or it because he wanted to create us in his image not in an apes. read the freakin BIBLE!

Answer 11

god didnt "make" us from ape.. he caused the big bang intentionally setting off a long chain of events that would ultimatly lead to our existance.