Does God make mistakes?

Question

If God is perfect, then he knew what he was creating, do you deny it? Why blame Satan? Does your God not accept respondsibility for his actions?

Answer 1

God does not make mistakes.
Next logical question- then what about Satan & sinful man...aren't they mistakes?

Answer 2

I don't know. But find it hilarious how religious people say ALL good things are Gods work and we should be oh so thankful for all he has givin us, but anything Bad is the work of the Devil or Satan. After all you could NEVER blame God for anything.

Oh wow! I just had a great fart and feel much better now, Praise God! Amen, it was good.

I know so many people will be repulsed and against that last remark, but if it was "good" it was gods work right? I never had a thing to do with farting, it was Gods work.

Answer 3

God does not make mistakes. He created us knowing beforehand that we would turn away from Him and make the mistakes ourselves, but he made us anyway. And how would that not be a mistake, you ask? Imagine you had a kid. Would you want that kid to, say, keep their room clean because you said so, and they don't have a choice, or because they know that you would like them to, and they want to make you happy. Or a spouse. A wife who cleans up the house before her husband comes home so that he can relax after work. or the husband who mows his lawn before the gals come over. Would they want it to be done out of force, or out of love? I would think that love would be a more satisfying reason the the recieving party than a forced labor.

Answer 4

No, God makes no mistakes.

God knew what he was creating, indeed. He was creating something that was not himself. And inherent in creating something that is not God is the fact that it is not God.

Like, dude, when I make a bracelet, say, and it turns out to be ugly, I assume responsibility for having created it, but I still say that the thing is ugly. Did I make a mistake? Well, maybe, who knows? But I am a person, prone to mistake-making. Not that there is any template of the perfect bracelet or anything...but one can assign the word "mistake" to an ugly bracelet if one wishes. It is just a failed attempt--in that what I created failed to live up to my expectations.

But that's just me. God is not human. God is divine, God is perfect. God created others in order to populate the world that he created. He created because that is what he does: he creates. He could not make copies of himself, nor did he want to. He wanted to create not-God, and so he did.

Surely he understood the potential liabilities in his creations, but what of it? Does this mean that he should not have created in the first place?

The bottom line is that nobody here knows the mind of God. Trying to trip God up in limited human rhetoric is ridiculous. It is not for us to know how and why the one who is perfect made imperfect beings. He made them imperfect because they COULD NOT BE PERFECT. Because they are not God. This doesn't mean that God created mistakes. It means he created things that weren't God.

Where is your confusion here? I can make a bracelet, but I can't make a tree. Can you make a tree?

What I'm saying is that I cannot create life out of nothing. Once you know how to do it, then perhaps you can go trying to fathom the mind of God. But you'll never be able to do it. So why not trying to cultivate some respect for the only one who can?

P.S. No one is blaming Satan. People are explaining the theology.

Answer 5

Do you take responsibility for yours?
Have you ever read the bible?
Why do you question when you don't have the facts?
Why doubt God because of your ignorance?
Learn of God's ways, then you can make an informed decision. As it stands now, your opinions on faith are worthless.
God loves you even when you don't love Him.
My advice to you is to accept His love and return it.

Answer 6

Well, one big mistake that god made was that he got all hot and bothered over the building of the Tower of Bable, which men were constructing to gain entry into God's domain, on the other side of the sky (solid 'firmament'). Apparently, God is such a dumbass that he isn't even aware of the configuration of the universe which he is supposed to have created.

Answer 7

God is perfect and he create humans in his own image. Satan does get blame for allot of things which Christians cause on them selves. God knows what we can handle so sometimes he test us. It is are actions that are wrong not God's.

Answer 8

My God knows what he is creating and he doesn't blame Satan. He accepts responsiblitiy for his actions and he does something to make it right.

For example:

Noah and the flood. His people weren't doing what they were made for. So he killed them all and saved the ones that were doing what they were made for.

Answer 9

NOpe, He doesn't. I don't deny He knew what He was making. Who was it that called God a liar and persueded Eve to eat the forbidden fruit? Satan it the one that did that. He had the option to obey God or not just as Eve did and they neither one chose the obey God. It was not God that made them do the opposite of what He told them to do but it was their free choice. Just because you have the opportunity to do wrong does not mean you HAVE to do wrong. You can also choose to do what is RIGHT!! That is free will and that is what God gave to every being, human and angel. It is not God that does the choosing for us but we do so it is not God's fault that we choose to do wrong.

Answer 10

God makes a lot of mistakes. He does not accept responsibility for a goddamn thing! He blames everything on the devil who has done nothing wrong!