I have seen so many questions like "why would God create people like so-and-so? Here's my answer: He didn't, well, not in a literal sense anyway. God created human beings. Everything was perfect in the beginning, but WE screwedit up. God created us to have free will, which is that WE decide how to act. God wants US to come to HIM and proclaim our love to Him. God loves us, but does not force us to love him, for a forced love is not a welcome love, but one we can proclaim to Him ourselves is true...NOTHING can stop you from loving God...The point here is WE screwed it up, NOT God...
Here's a question(s) then: What do you think about this point? What are your opinions?
2006-10-16 15:42:53 · 11 answers · asked by Kiara 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
You've got it! God created us to worship him and love him. We can not love him unless we have free will, or determinism in the sense that only God knows what will happen (philosophy). If God created us to be a certain way, we would all be robots in his eyes, hence, not able to love, only controlled and programmed to love. But, because we are free to choose and do as we please, God allows us to decide whether we would like Him, or rebellion.
2006-10-16 15:49:36 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Agreed. From a point of duality that makes sense. By the way your suggestion supports re-incarnation (which of coz is true). Eg. A person is born blind or lame bcos of his own actions in his / her previous life. It also suggests that life is a process of evolution and not a one-chance with eternal salvation/damnation at heaven/hell.
From God's perspective, however all is fine with the world and there is nothing wrong with it. everything is going as per his direction and it has not deviated a dot from his direction.
Good and Bad, happiness and sadness, light and darkness are all below God. So only we expereince it. rise up to God state and all is perfect.
The world is like a movie. God is the white screen on which the characters come and play their part. The happenings on the movie do not tarnish the screen. The movie ends and the screen is still white.
2006-10-16 18:20:39 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, maybe God didn't create people - or human beings. There is still an assumption there, whether you call it people or human beings. Interestingly, there is a line in the old testament that says, "God is no respecter of persons". Hmmm. Actually, the question in question is a reasonable one. Why would God create people, especially if he has no respect for them? I like it and it's worth considering. But, if this is one of those questions that people ask just because they are looking for others to agree with them, that is pretty disrepectable.
2006-10-16 15:51:11 · answer #3 · answered by ineeddonothing 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I think you hit the nail on the head.
One more thing...
If there are 100 steps separating me from God; God will take 99 of them. I must take the last one. He pursues us all for relationship. :o)
Perfection? No evil? That's only in Heaven. Here on earth, we live in a "natural" world. It is a fallen world. Things will get worse before they get better.
God doesn't destroy evil because it would take away from our free will. Without free will, we would be good little robots. He pursues us for relationship because He wants us to love Him; not because we have too...but because we want too. That's what a relationship is all about. That's why we have free will.
2006-10-16 15:48:40 · answer #4 · answered by Salvation is a gift, Eph 2:8-9 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What makes you so sure we screwed anything up?
What if everything is going exactly the way God intended it to go?
Are you trying to say that God made a mistake when He created us?
Sounds like you are.
Love and blessings Don
2006-10-16 15:51:29 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Even if God did create us, everything weren't perfect! Being perfect there would have been no chance for us to commit any sins. There should be no serpent and we can't screw anything up. That is perfect.
2006-10-16 15:47:25 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
He created us imperfectly. We were never suppode to be pefect and we can never be. God can never screw up cause He's God, creator of all creations. And when ppl ask why god created ppl like this or that, its probably to test us. Infact they shud really think about why god created Them.
2006-10-16 15:47:16 · answer #7 · answered by Zorro 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
we didnt screw anything up, we are just human beings, how are we supposed to know how to live or act if we never have done it before. Life is a learning process and without bad we would never know the good
2006-10-16 15:45:53 · answer #8 · answered by daisy322_98 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Well you're halfway there.
God made man, god said "one rule, no touchy da apple"
Man touches apple within like a week. God says "Ok, get out. go and multiply but you'd better keep listening to me!"
Man procreates and keeps eating those apples! Who is at fault? GOD! He made us!
If my robot screwed up my one rule, I would start over, not let him recreate himself and continue eating apples.
BTW, I love how one poster says "we were perfect" and 2 answers later is "we were imperfect" you guys better get your stories straight before u try to convince an atheist. lol!
2006-10-16 15:45:47 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I totally agree with you. I have seen alot of those question too and felt the same way as you do, but never really knew how to put it into words. Thank You for putting how I feel in an understandable way. Good Job!
2006-10-16 15:47:11 · answer #10 · answered by * Jess * Jess * 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋