Free will and the ability to think for ourselves. How could that have been created?
2006-07-10 12:26:45
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answered by ? 4
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Any questions I've ever had about the catholic, christian, baptist god (not to mention the other thousands of gods people have believed in over the centuries), all lead to the same answer. You just have to believe. So someone here will probably give give you an answer that makes sense to you because you believe. The problem is that the person giving the answer can't possibly know what your god was thinking when it created you. If it thinks. They will likely counter my point with some reference from their religious text bible, however these books were written by human beings. Once again you just have to believe. When you get tired of all this belief, know that there are people who get through there whole lives without clouding there brains with all that guilt causing nonsense. Rational thinking helped me stop believing 20 years ago, and have lived a perfectly good life. No diseases, no prison, no murder, no rape no theft, a few drugs here and there, happily married (justice of the peace). Give non belief a try, it's better than you think. Of course, the hardest part will be realizing that you will not go to hell for thinking this way. There isn't an after life to worry about.
2006-07-10 12:58:32
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answer #2
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answered by downdrain 4
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Well I hate to give the devil credit but since you asked. God never created people to be so smart. People were made to be like little bots who do everything God says. Satan told Adam and Eve to eat the fruit and get smart. This is sometimes one of the things I cannot understand about God. I gotta tell ya. The more I read the Old and New Testaments and see the difference between God. I am really starting to realize that there is no way the God in the Old Testament and Jesus are the same God. The God in thee Old Testament killed millions of people. Does that sound like something Jesus would do? Also God in the Old Testament often put down on people, and said they were imperfect to him because he is God. Jesus also never said anything against people like that. Jesus said I lay down my life for my sheep. The more I think about it. Jesus, his Father, and the Holy Spirit have nothing to do with the Old Testament God. That God was a twisted being who loved to see people suffer. Jesus is not like that. Jesus loves people. Therefore I must come to the conclusion that the loving Father of Jesus, and the hateful being in the Old Testament are not the same Gods.
2006-07-10 12:39:02
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answer #3
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answered by crowdog1986 1
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Very smart question, but I think it is misunderstood and mis-asked.
I think to anser this question, you need to know what sin is...sin is not a 'crated entity' or a 'substance' of some sort. Sin, in essence, is doing something that goes against the comandment of God.
Committing this is sin, is not forced on us nor are we behaving in a 'natural' way because that is the way we are created, but rather out free will and choice to commit it. That is why we will stand judgment and give account for our sins before God, unless we seek forgiveness and he gracefully grants it to us.
To say that sin is 'part' of us means that God created it, because God created all that is in heaven and on earth and all that is therein. And God is perfect, and Good, and would never create something evil or imperfect...Sin, therefore, in essense, is not presance of evil, but the absense of grace.
I hope this helps; e-mail if you need any more help...God bless.
2006-07-10 12:32:30
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answered by copticphoenix 3
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I am always surprised to see how little Christians understand their own religion. According to most of the Christian faiths, God created everything in you. You get to decide what to do with it, but he created it. And he also has already designed whether or not you will sin or be saved too. If your name isn't already on the big invitation list, written before you born, you aren't getting into heaven no matter how good a person you are, or how much you love Jesus. Sorry Charlie, not on the list....
Makes one wonder how anyone can believe in this drivel!
2006-07-10 12:33:00
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answer #5
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answered by Anonymous
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The truth is, everything, seen and unseen, is a part of God. There is nothing in this world, or the whole cosmos, that's not a part of God. It's not God's fault that we sin. He gave us free will to discover who we really are. Only religion tells us that we have sinned, not God. There's a big difference between religion and spirituality. Have you read the books called 'Conversations with God'? You might want to read these books and you might discover the truth you are looking for, as I have.
2006-07-10 12:34:06
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answered by Anonymous
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There is nothing in us that God did not create. The sin that is in us is not something God created, it is the absense of God. A place He allows us to govern (free will) and fill with either Him or His creation. Adam and Eve were sinless, but they chose to separate themselves from Him by trying to be like Him.
Your statement that it's "his fault" for making us able to sin misses the point, though, which is that sin is not the "fault" of who made it available, it is the fault of whomever chooses it over God.
2006-07-10 12:53:30
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answered by pilgrim 1
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God created us all with a free will. There is no part of this He did not create. Jesus died for all of our sins, ALL of them. What we do and how we live and how our relationship with God is in this world or life will determine our fate in His Heaven.. To all you atheists or non- believers, read the Bible ONCE. .This is not the only life you have. It is Gods test to you. I was never very spiritual until 5 years ago and I drink and smoke. My life has changed significantly since and I realize that this is not "IT". I am not a "Thumper",; I partied hard most of my 42 years, and I always knew there was something else. Prove me wrong after you die, non-believers.
2006-07-10 12:34:14
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answer #8
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answered by beatlepath 2
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All of us is unique except for the 'soul' inside of us all. We have free will, and you re thinking way to much about things that arn't important, why not think about why everything exists in the first place, or what's on the other side of a black hole, what went on before the big bang...and again all of us is unique and has nothing to do with god's input, if we are to be judged ALL of our being will be judged.
2006-07-10 12:35:52
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answer #9
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answered by Anonymous
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You came from your mommy and daddy. All the genetic stuff is passed from them. That is how the inherited sin nature has been pased since the begining.
At conception you are given an immortal soul by God
God created all that this universe is made up of... how he did it and what he used and where that came from and where
God came from...that is all God's business and he may or may not tell us someday.
But your daddy put a little seed in side your mommy and it got friendly with a little cell from your mommy and then they just sort of grew in your mommy and then out you came... And that is where you came from.
The immortality of your soul is from God and is why you will exist forever. But you did not exist untill you mommy and daddy did the nasty.thing..
2006-07-10 12:38:24
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answer #10
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answered by IdahoMike 5
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not all Christianity believes that the international is 6000 years old. i'm individual who does not. i imagine that the international become the following lengthy earlier that. It wasn't even initially utilized by using guy. If I have it accurate, the literal translation is ' a gathering position of smart creatures'. in case you seem up the hollow theory of Genesis a million:a million - a million:2 on a Google search for, you'll discover a proof of what the hollow theory of Genesis a million:a million - a million:2 is, and the justifications why Christianity does not settle for it. i'm not so classic, and that i actually have translated the words lower than question myself utilising a complication-free strong's Concordance - all of us can do it. What all of us can't do is settle for what the study shows. custom makes such an excellent style of Christians struggle through even as it is composed of seeing actuality in this count.
2016-10-14 08:07:10
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answered by applebee 2
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