If he is all-powerful, and completely benevolent, and has the ability to make us eternally happy, why would he give us the option to make our lives miserable?
2006-08-03 03:36:41 · 22 answers · asked by Barry_White_Pwns 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
God has no wants, he is perfect and without desire, and we could be happy as robots because God has the infinite power to make robots happy.
2006-08-03 03:42:20 · update #1
If we were robots how would happiness be possible?
2006-08-03 03:40:25 · answer #1 · answered by righton 3 · 1⤊ 4⤋
Good question.
He created humans and gave us free will, and yes you are right, it gets us in a lot of trouble all the time.
Now lets think of an illusration.
Man has made robots that can be programmed to follow every command. Would we be happy if God made us like that? Of course not. We have the freedom to make our own choices about many things. We love freedom and God wants us to enjoy it. We would not even enjoy life if we had no choice in what was happening. It's like having your parent make every decision for you all your life, and you have no choice in the matter.
It's not loving on God's part if he did not give us free will, we are humans with emotions not robots that are programmed to do whatever its commands are.
2006-08-03 10:49:59 · answer #2 · answered by AnGeL 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because if he did not give us free will we would never learn. There must be opposition in all things. Without misery there can be no joy.
a* 11 For it must needs be, that there is an opposition in all things. If not so, my first-born in the wilderness, righteousness could not be brought to pass, neither wickedness, neither holiness nor misery, neither good nor bad. Wherefore, all things must needs be a compound in one; wherefore, if it should be one body it must needs remain as dead, having no life neither death, nor corruption nor incorruption, happiness nor misery, neither sense nor insensibility.
12 Wherefore, it must needs have been created for a thing of naught; wherefore there would have been no purpose in the end of its creation. Wherefore, this thing must needs destroy the wisdom of God and his eternal purposes, and also the power, and the mercy, and the justice of God.
13 And if ye shall say there is no law, ye shall also say there is no sin. If ye shall say there is no sin, ye shall also say there is no righteousness. And if there be no righteousness there be no happiness. And if there be no righteousness nor happiness there be no punishment nor misery. And if these things are not, there is no God. And if there is no God we are not, neither the earth; for there could have been no creation of things, neither to act nor to be acted upon; wherefore, all things must have vanished away. All things in life have a purpose even misery.
25 Adam fell that men might be; and men care, that they might have joy.
2006-08-03 11:12:42 · answer #3 · answered by cincoabrigo 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He does not want us to be mind-less robots, or not have the opportunity to think for ourselves.
Really how pleasing would it be if people only chose to serve you because you MAKE them?
It makes you feel better when people do something because they love you and out of the love in their hearts, not because they were forced or made to do it.
Jehovah wants for us to choose because he created us to be intelligent human creatures and to be able to PROVE our love to Him.
He gets much joy out of that.
He made us in his image - with the qualities to be able to think for ourselves, to love, and to make decisions.
It would hardly make us intelligent if we just went about life doing whatever he wanted us to do - exactly to a certain point, and without change-- His love allows us to be what we can be, even if that means that he doesn't get recognized for it, which is very loving IMHO.
And if we didn't have free will that wouldn't necessarily make us happy - or even aware. I don't think we'd be happy as a result of being robots, we wouldn't even bother to think outside the box, that is if an "outside" of the box would even exist, since there would be only one way to do things.
I choose to serve God because I love him and I show it in my own indivual way (No Free Will means no Individuality), and that's most likely more valuable than having 100,000 people love Him because he made them do that.
And if we seek him, there would be no need to be miserable because we're doing things His way, which is the best way for us.
I hope that helps :)
2006-08-03 10:54:10 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because he wants us to come to him on our own, "free will". Do you actually want to walk around being a "robot"? I am not God and therefore can not think like God, so therefore I answer and ask questions as only the human mind can comprehend. God, I am assuming here, would lay things out as only a human mind can understand. We're talking Divine Power "GODS", over No Power here, "OURS". If you want your questions answered truthfully, read his book, thats why it's here for you. "Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling".
2006-08-03 10:58:52 · answer #5 · answered by Annie Red Head 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hi,...
Why do the GOD gives us the will /free desire. ??? Ok. because we are the special creature. U , me and everybody here is the special one. The God gives us the will to serve to Him or not. We are not the Angel, the Angel have no choice in life except serve to God, but we are not, we could decide either serve him or not.
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2006-08-03 10:47:35 · answer #6 · answered by Double Helix 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Would you honestly rather He dictated every facet of your life and left you no choice in anything that mattered to you?
As for giving us the option to make our lives miserable, I can assure you, I didn't choose to have a life-threatening illness but it doesn't make me miserable. He only gives us what we can handle and it makes me stronger.
Besides, we learn from our mistakes. Or at least we should learn from them. I know some people who repeat the same mistakes over and over again.
2006-08-03 10:45:05 · answer #7 · answered by I love my husband 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
after reading Conversations With God by Neale Donald Walsh
alot of these questions made sense for me even more
i don't agree on the biblical god and putting us here to live on paradise on earth only for us to mess up and be punished
i feel that god placed us here to learn from us .. as god does not know himself fully .. how can he as a perfect being know compassion without suffering
we have free will and with that free will we make choices .. we bring things to our life and through these options both god and our self can learn more , which helps us on our spiritual development both here and the next life
i think to truly understand reasons for us being here we have to look outside the typical religious books and do a little searching elsewhere
2006-08-03 10:44:18 · answer #8 · answered by Peace 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why do men want to create robots that can make decisions on their own?
The ultimate design is to create a living thing that can make conscious rational decision on its own, to learn and grow. God loves us and the Bible continually refers to him as creative God and as thus he wouldn't be loving if he didn't create us with free will.
2006-08-03 10:42:56 · answer #9 · answered by Damian 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you misuse your free will to make your life miserable, don't blame God.
I love it -- people blame God for things that go bad, but when things go well, they don't give Him credit!
God just can't win for losing with some people.
If God didn't give you free will, I suspect you would be complaining that He didn't give it to you.
You'd be posting questions on here to the effect of, "Why did God make me His slave, instead of giving me the free will to make my own choices?"
Like I said, God can't win for losing with folks like you, can He? He's damned if He does, and He's damned if He doesn't. So to speak.
2006-08-03 10:46:47 · answer #10 · answered by Julia Encarnacion 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you misuse your free will to make your life miserable, don't blame God.
I love it -- people blame God for things that go bad, but when things go well, they don't give Him credit!
God just can't win for losing with some people.
If God didn't give you free will, I suspect you would be complaining that He didn't give it to you.
You'd be posting questions on here to the effect of, "Why did God make me His slave, instead of giving me the free will to make my own choices?"
Like I said, God can't win for losing with folks like you, can He? He's damned if He does, and He's damned if He doesn't. So to speak.
2006-08-03 10:42:00 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋