how is it that God is all-knowing and would therefore know what would happen throughout all of humanity, and also created everyone to live exactly as he imagined it, and yet he gets mad when we sin. i dont get it.
2006-09-14 18:21:16 · 14 answers · asked by chaseredbat 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
ok free will but if we are already predestined, doesnt that mean that no matter what i decide to do its already been decided what i will do and therefore we have no free will. it still doesnt make any sense to me.
2006-09-14 18:37:41 · update #1
God orchestrates it all; all knowing, all powerful, ever present, the whole deal. He has a rather absurd sense of humor as displayed in the creation of religions that make no sense at all except as a means of social control and for those in power to shear the sheep. There are other occasions when the all powerful has a nasty and sadistic streak when he causes disasters and wars. You will note that most wars are fought in the name of religion but in reality they are fought for the pecuniary sake of his high priests in the churches of Haliburton and Enrom. He's got a mean streak and you better not cross him.
2006-09-14 18:27:40 · answer #1 · answered by valcus43 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God created us as people, not puppets. We have free will to choose or reject Him. But because He is perfect and holy, we can't be with Him if we sin or don't choose Him. However, He made a way for us to be with Him and to help us with our frailties, and that is Jesus. After we choose Jesus, when God looks at us, He sees us as perfect, because His dying on the cross and rising again, cleansed all the sins we've ever done or will do. Yes, He does grieve when we continue to sin, because we are straying from the life He desires for us. Whether someone chooses to believe or not, doesn't change how true God is. He has made Himself available for anyone to believe and receive. I know it seems hard to understand, but the Bible tells us that there are some things that we may not understand until we are together with God in heaven (because we are only human and He is GOD).
2006-09-15 01:43:44 · answer #2 · answered by LINDA E 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I know this sounds weird, but I recommend you read a book called Blink by Ted Dekker. It's a novel about a guy who is somehow able to see the future...or futures. He sees how his choices can affect the future, but if he prays a whole new set of futures become possible. It some ways it answers the question of how God sees the future. But its a really cool book even if you aren't looking for answers.
When God gets mad its at the sin, not at us. We aren't living exactly as God planned for us to live, because of sin. God knew that people would sin, but He still chose to give us choice because He knew that some people would chose to follow Him. Our brains are way too small to understand God and how He works.
2006-09-15 05:56:02 · answer #3 · answered by theology_chick 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Thats the freedom of choice. We were given free will and not created like programmed robots. What good would it be to love God if we only did it because we had to. God wants us to have a heart motivated response to him that is our response out of free will.
He has given us Laws and if we choose to go against Gods law and our own conscience we will pay the price if we don't accept what Jesus did on the cross for us. Because God was offerring to pay the penalty of our sin
The Bible says 'The Wages of Sin is Death, but the gift of God is eternal life'
Jesus paid that price for us - he died for our sins so we wouldn't have to.
He wants us to be reconciled to Him and forgiven He loves us so much.
God is Good and therefore he is also Just. He will punish sin just as a good judge would punish a murderer or rapist. If the Judge just let them go there would be no justice carried out.
2006-09-15 01:29:51 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
It was clay and water with which God created Carl Sagan, the seed of living beings and among living beings, God created man. With an independent self, to put him in the test and to see, how he responds independently to the Commandments of The God, The Lord Almighty.
It was a perfect creation, with a perfect free discretion. God blessed him with a female to raise tribes and generations and to spread them on the earth and to address them always through The Lords messengers. God ordained for him and for his dependents a day of judgement and created heavens of his own choice and hells against his choice. So, O the Mankind! Always choose Gods will to be safe, because between God and you there is no one to affect the judgement of your Lord.
Listen to the Lord! All the tribes, generations and people. God blessed you with freedom of choice and captured you from the top of your head after your creation. God ordained death to declare the end of the test. Nothing is like this but the test ordained for you by your God, The All Able Lord.
God created this universe and made it a home for the creatures. So that the creatures might pay thanks to God through worship and obedience and in turn they might receive God’s blessings.
Universe is a creation of God and behind it____ is God’s Almightiness. God created the needs___ the needies____ and all the things of needs. God is God____ God is need-free and Absolute Holy.
God is Almighty. God creates whatsoever God wills to create. Each and every creature of God is answerable to God and God is not answerable to anyone.
If the worshippers worship God and obey Gods commandments, it makes no difference to God. But on the other side, it makes a lot of difference to the worshippers if they do not worship God as they become empty-hearted and remain empty-hearted until and unless they resort to God.
If the sinners sin and disobey God, it makes no difference to God but the sinful life brings a lot of difference to the sinners as the sins necessitate the curse of God.
Curse is the God ordained result of sin
While blessing is the God ordained
result of virtue.
God has already judged the sinners and the righteous, in terms of their deeds through revealing the commandments and ordaining the ways to Hell and Heaven.
Key-point to receive the blessings of God___ is to become God’s dependent by all means____ through prayers_____ and patience ____ and trust in God.
God helps and guides aright to those who ask God for God’s help and guidance.
The people who do not believe God and lead a lustful life____ are always mislead to disaster.
2006-09-15 02:05:52 · answer #5 · answered by ibn adam 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He created us all and gave us free-will. That's freedom to choose if we want to accept Christ into our life or not. He hopes we all will. He did not create us to be robots to automatically serve him. He knows not all man-kind will accept him, and thus the punishment is eternal death. Since he created us, he is our Father, and like a father or a parent he has a right to punish his children.
2006-09-15 01:29:42 · answer #6 · answered by creeklops 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Your thought process is missing free will.
We have the abiliity to choose. God doesn't "make" us do anything.
Yes, we make poor choices, have poor judgement, harm others and God is hurt by that.
He will not interfere with our choices because it would remove all authenticity, wouldn't it?
Don't blame God for what man does.
2006-09-15 01:29:59 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
God gives you free will. He knows what you will do with your freewill, but that does not change the fact that you were free to make your choices. He knows what man does, but man still chooses to do it.
2006-09-15 01:25:11 · answer #8 · answered by Walty 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
He gives us free will to do good or bad, but has hope for us that we will do the right things in life. Unfortunately, as humans we screw up a lot.
2006-09-15 01:24:11 · answer #9 · answered by pegasus_1174 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Exactly. The Christian god has properties that are mutually exclusive, proving it's nonexistence. Don't try to understand it, it doesn't make sense.
2006-09-15 01:27:20 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋