if god wants people to be saved then why doesnt just appear to the whole world and once and for all stop the killing, fighting, hate, arguing, strife, bickering and bs over religion? pretty simple ey? maybe he needs foder for his lake of fire? maybe because he created evil and thinks it's good: Isaiah 45:7:
"Who fashions light and creates darkness, who makes peace and creates evil, I am HaShem who does all this."
(yes evil is the hebrew word not disaster)
Genesis 1:31
God saw all that he had made, and it was very good.
2006-10-02 08:35:33 · 15 answers · asked by kazai583 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
to all the devil xians making threats: if u like we can meet in person and find out if u can turn the other cheek?
2006-10-02 08:42:41 · update #1
xians: in your minds u know im right but your fear of god/hell and your unobjectivy makes u resort to your fleshly nature but since your not christians and going to burn this is your only option
2006-10-02 08:47:01 · update #2
u have no evidence that god or jesus offered me salvation or did anything if you do, mail it to me. why would i belive degenerate hypocrites like u and your bible just because you tell me to? you're insane.
2006-10-02 08:48:40 · update #3
listen dimwits, if jesus or god did offer me salvation obisously i would take it but since they didnt the only people im rejecting are hateful, idiotic, lying, hypocritcal xians. you have not 1 shred of irrefutable evidence to offer that he did.
2006-10-02 08:52:43 · update #4
Because apparently free will is very important, much more important than the innocent lives lost at the hand of those exercizing their "free will".
2006-10-02 08:38:59 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
God gave humankind the wonderful gift of free will. He allows us to make our own choices, whether to follow His laws and teachings (from Jesus) of whether to live otherwise. Those choices include which religion to follow, and whether to be "saved" or "born again" in Christ.
It's completely our choice. God leaves that to us. As His children, we need to learn to make responsible choices as we mature, just like any child. We also need to remember that with any choice comes responsibility and consequences. With a bad choice we may have to face the consequences in this life, but even if we avoid them while mortal, we will still have to answer for the bad choice and face the consequences when we stand before God in judgement.
I found many years ago that the best way to raise my teenager was to set out the rules of what's right and what's wrong, then let him make his own mistakes. When he did make a mistake, he learned that there were consequences, and he learned these lessons much more thoroughly than if I had forced him to make one choice or another. It's all part of the maturing process.
Mankind has made many mistakes over the millenia. We have learned from many of the mistakes (bad choices) and grown, matured, evolved from them. This is due to God's watching over us, allowing us to learn lessons and mature. It's the best way to teach a lesson and have it remembered.
2006-10-02 15:44:30 · answer #2 · answered by RevJimSutter 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God wants people to repent of their sins and come to Christ on their own. He wants us to take responsibility for our lives and not be spoon-fed everything.. Incidentally, God did not create evil. Evil is the absence of good. When good is absent in a person's life, then they are naturally disposed to evil. there are no vacuums in this universe----when something moves out, then something must move in. When good is not present, then evil is because there is no good.
2006-10-02 15:42:02 · answer #3 · answered by Preacher 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This life is a test. If there were no evil or temptation, he would never be able to judge our character and willingness to serve. He stands back and lets us run the world to see the results.
2006-10-02 15:40:15 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
When the Lord God created us, he placed a will in us. He permits us to choose what we will an will not do.He knows our everythought and he knows who will choose to be a disciple. God does not force us to do anything. He guides us to his salvation plan, but it up to us to accept or reject it. Many of us have chose to reject him, and sad to say that he will reject them in the day of redemption.
2006-10-02 15:42:47 · answer #5 · answered by Special K 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God did appear to the whole world. Many denied him, and many do the same today.
What more do you want, when God gave you what you are asking for and yet you still do not believe?
2006-10-02 15:41:13 · answer #6 · answered by Gestalt 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The "free will" argument the theists are making is bunk. Adam and Eve saw the biblegod directly, and they were still able to choose their own way. Lucifer and his angels were chilling with him in heaven, and they still had free will enough to rebel.
The short answer is: he IS showing himself right now, in his true form -- non-existence.
2006-10-02 15:39:42 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
Isaiah 5:20
2006-10-02 15:42:28 · answer #8 · answered by NickofTyme 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He will be interfering with the 'freewill' that he gave us to make us think that we had control over our actions when in truth we really do not.
2006-10-02 15:38:37 · answer #9 · answered by Osun Iya Mi 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My belief: He doesn't exist.
A belief using religion: Free Will I guess.
2006-10-02 15:39:29 · answer #10 · answered by Elizabeth 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋