Couldn't God have done a better job?
2006-09-07 15:10:34 · 19 answers · asked by Heron By The Sea 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
kingreef - it's HERON, not heroin!!!!!!!!! I know it was probably a typo, I just wanted to make that clear. I'm not a druggee! Just a birdbrain.
2006-09-07 15:24:00 · update #1
No such thing as hopeless.
2006-09-07 15:13:26 · answer #1 · answered by no nickname 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Would you accept a simple answer to your question? Will you think about it carefully?
I said that because I see that God did a great job for His plans and purposes. I see great simple wisdom in exactly what is and what can be from my point of view as I do seek for what I consider to be constantly consistent truth.
In my view only OK I will give an answer. I do not say it is "the" answer, but it is good enough for me at this time. Of course you are free to select you own that is good enough for yourself.
It is easy to see a little or small light a long ways away if one is standing in the dark area but it is hard to notice a light at all in the bright sun light.
When one has been refused the permission to go into the swimming pool without taking a shower first, he may get the idea and desire to take that shower. That is of course if he does want to swim in that pool for a good reason in his view.
If all was good and perfect how would we even know or think of considering the other side? However if all is not good in our view and we do see or are provided the opportunity to see something that we may think is better, maybe we will consider it and then make a choice.
I hope these thoughts of mine will answer your question or at least give you a hint. If not, I did try with a smile and did enjoy the trying. Do have a good day and ask another good question.
2006-09-07 22:39:42 · answer #2 · answered by cjkeysjr 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, God created mankind in His image, He didn't make any "junk". However it may help you to understand that when theologians refer to people as being "depraved" it doesn't mean that as far as humans are concerned they have nothing good in them. It means that according to God's perfect standards they don't come close to matching up even if it's only in their thought life and not in any outward word or deed. When a theologians says that people are "helpless sinners" they are referring to the precepts in the Bible that tell us that on our own we don't have the power to live lives that are free from the dominion of our sinful natures. Sure, a person can go for a time without committing an outward sin but they still feel the pull of sin and eventually they can't help but give in to it. When a person receives God's Holy Spirit they slowly lose their desire to sin and then start to develop a positive aversion to it. To some people this doesn't make sense because they don't see things like coarse joking or talking about someone in gossip or telling a "white lie" as a sin.
2006-09-07 22:50:19 · answer #3 · answered by Martin S 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I do not believe that humans are depraved, hopeless sinners. However, I do believe that all humans are sinners, because the Bible teaches us so. But Jesus came to the earth and gave his life for the sins of all mankind. So that He could make a way through his blood, that we could be forgiven for our sins. This is why we are not hopeless sinners. We can always have hope if we will only trust in Jesus Christ as our Savior. And God has never made junk. He made Adam and Eve perfect in the beginning. It was their own choice to do wrong, and to bring sin upon themselves, as well as upon all the future ones of the earth. God is a perfect God, and everything that He does is perfect.
2006-09-07 22:23:34 · answer #4 · answered by Calvin S 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God did such a good job that He didn't want to make us into little worshipful robots. He gave us free will - the ability to choose whether or not we'd follow His guidelines for a perfect, perfectly happy life.
It shouldn't surprise you, looking around the planet, that humans make stupid, depraved, hopeless choices all the time. But... that doesn't make us junk. And God still loves us, even when we screw up.
Hey, there's my two cents' worth! I don't expect to convince anyone or change any opinions, but you did ask, right? He loves me, and you - no matter what choices we make.
2006-09-07 22:18:53 · answer #5 · answered by bardmistress 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Heroin By The Sea,
He made you, didn't He? Just kidding.
We made ourselves that way, it's that old story about that mishap in Eden, you know?
We are born screwed. So then we are supposed to grow up and take responsibility for our dumb actions. And then we might find out that we had a choice in the matter, we can go our own way, or we can go His way.
That choice is long behind me, though I have to fight it everyday, God's is my choice.
You do what you want, I'm going with God.
2006-09-07 22:17:50 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
What god made was a potential friend. Who wants a robot for a friend? So He gave them free will to choose and man took it and made lotsa variations on the theme and some choose to be God's friend and others choose not to. Ok lets say the experiment is over what do you do with the broken creations who chose not to choose to be the creators friend. You be the judge.
2006-09-07 22:31:51 · answer #7 · answered by icheeknows 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The disobedience of Adam and Eve in the garden is when sin entered the world. That was their choice, and they introduced sin into creation. God gave them a choice to obey Him or not and they didn't.
An interesting verse with regard to this: "Just as by the disobedience of one man (Adam) all fell, so by the obedience of one man (Jesus), will many be saved".
2006-09-07 22:20:23 · answer #8 · answered by christian_lady_2001 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is just puerile groveling - goes to show the minds of these morons who believe that by groveling, grnding their knees to the ground, bonking their foreheads to the floor, quinting their eyes shut, somehow they will be saved!! Burn the bible, koran and the torah and free humanity from the shackles of religion.
2006-09-07 22:19:09 · answer #9 · answered by noitall 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The word sinner is a word from the imagination of men. Sin and hell are man made not God made.
2006-09-07 22:17:47 · answer #10 · answered by Gorgeoustxwoman2013 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No such word as hopeless. People make their lives what they want.......most of the time.
2006-09-07 22:18:24 · answer #11 · answered by GraycieLee 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋