If sin entered mankind about 6000 years ago, and the cure for the disease was introduce only about 2000 years ago, then God waited around for 4000 years withholding the cure. Why did God sit on the cure for 2/3rds of biblical history? How many people were born and died without the cure in that amount of time. Even after the cure came, he only spread it by word of mouth for most of that 2000 year period. There are still people living today who have not been offered the cure. If God is all good and perfect. why the inefficiency and procrastination? Is he inefficient by design? Is that what they mean by intelligent design?
2006-08-02 07:37:31 · 12 answers · asked by 自由思想家 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
"Every Prophet talks of Jesus Christ ... even before he arrived in Physical form... "
Kind of like Microsoft bragging about vaporware that is delayed by years and decades?
2006-08-02 07:44:13 · update #1
God has so many flaws. The bible is goofy
If God is omnipresent, than how is man created in his image
If God is so powerful and perfect, why create an imperfect world
I could keep going
2006-08-02 07:44:05 · answer #1 · answered by billyandgaby 7 · 4⤊ 5⤋
You ask the best questions !!
Yeah, what was the problem with dealing effectively with this issue of sin? Does it show that god only loves a few people, and for the ones who were not living when the "cure" came out, they are all roasting away in hell?
And why all the harsh judgment to begin with? Didn't god know that if Eve was presented with a temptation, that she would likely go against him? Even Sylvia Browne would know the answer to that !! And what so abominable about eating an apple? If god is that strict, that nobody is going to get into heaven because there will always be something that god does not like. Was the sin so terrible that it meant that everybody, from that moment on, had to pay a horrible price of burning in hell for all of eternity?
And why not make it all a bit more believable instead of people trying to brainwash themselves into believing fantasies and then having to go out and brainwash new converts?
So, after all of my rambling, the answer to your very intelligent question is, "who knows". Really. Who knows? There are millions of theories and opinions, but where is the P-R-O-O-F of any of this, including the theory of a solution ??
2006-08-02 07:49:21 · answer #2 · answered by LaRue 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
>>>If sin entered mankind about 6000 years ago, and the cure for the disease was introduce only about 2000 years ago, then God waited around for 4000 years withholding the cure<<<
You're likening Christ's redemptive work to a cure for a disease, which is not a good analogy.
Cures for diseases only help living people.
But Christ's redemptive work on the Cross helps not only people who lived at the time -- but also everyone who lived before then, and everyone who has lived afterward.
The Bible (1 Peter) tells us that after His death, and before His Resurrection, Christ "went to preach to the spirits in prison."
In other words, He ministered to those who had died before His earthly time -- and assured them that the moment of their release from prison and into eternal life was at hand.
Such assurance is not available to already-dead people with regard to a disease's cure -- which, again, renders your analogy faulty.
2006-08-02 07:45:55 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
>>>If sin entered mankind about 6000 years ago, and the cure for the disease was introduce only about 2000 years ago, then God waited around for 4000 years withholding the cure<<<
You're likening Christ's redemptive work to a cure for a disease, which is not a good analogy.
Cures for diseases only help living people.
But Christ's redemptive work on the Cross helps not only people who lived at the time -- but also everyone who lived before then, and everyone who has lived afterward.
The Bible (1 Peter) tells us that after His death, and before His Resurrection, Christ "went to preach to the spirits in prison."
In other words, He ministered to those who had died before His earthly time -- and assured them that the moment of their release from prison and into eternal life was at hand.
Such assurance is not available to already-dead people with regard to a disease's cure -- which, again, renders your analogy faulty.
2006-08-02 07:49:58 · answer #4 · answered by Julia Encarnacion 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Good point and may I add another?
Since the "cure' was administered why must the sinful world still go on?
You would think as soon as they pulled him off the cross the game should have ended. Why another 2000 years? Is is because of the day of rest crap? Why does this guy need to rest? Does he get tired? How much longer must we endure sinfulness???
End the f*ucking game already!!!
2006-08-02 07:47:58 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
God is still perfect and good. Man continues to discredit God and selfishly gives himself all the credit. Man ties hands of God by not believing in him therefore man will never find a cure without God but there are miraculous cures by God daily being done without man's interventions. Praise God!
Dbd
2006-08-02 07:47:49 · answer #6 · answered by Pashur 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God provided TheWay for mankind to return to Him emediatly. Through the scrificial ritual. And then latter added The Law. The majority of mankind continued to reject God. Yet God still provided one last way for mankind to return to Him. Through Jesus The Christ. The "cure" as you call it has always been available....It is available to you right now... I make The Offer as I am instructed by God to do. I can help you to learn The Way to Him...But you will have to go to Him on your own... there is only one way to come to God and that is in The Way He has proscribed....
You now have no excuse for not availing yourself of "the cure" You have been formaly given the oportunity...will this be your last chance...will you die toninght? tomorrow? soon?
2006-08-02 07:48:21 · answer #7 · answered by IdahoMike 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You should read the Bible... Every Prophet talks of Jesus Christ ... even before he arrived in Physical form...
Christianity started with Adam and Eve.
2006-08-02 07:42:28 · answer #8 · answered by ♥Tom♥ 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It didn't take any time at all. The first blood shed because of sin was the animal God killed to cover the nakedness (sin) of Adam and Eve. That was a foreshadow of the sacrifice of blood by Him for us. God knew since that first sin that He was going to redeem us.
2006-08-02 07:44:31 · answer #9 · answered by Grandma Susie 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
when something doesn't seem to make sense, people of faith will tell you that human can not comprehend God's will... but the truth is, many of bible elememts just doesn't make sense and the stories with in it are absure... but then, that's what "faith" is all about, there is a God ONLY if you believe it. See link for reference
http://www.skepticsannotatedbible.com/
2006-08-02 07:46:24 · answer #10 · answered by rei 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There was acure for sin making a sin offering these were long and complicated but they to your sins away. G-d always knows what he is doing and it was the right time.
2006-08-02 07:42:59 · answer #11 · answered by Maccabee 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋