If god loves us so much then why didn't he just forgive humans just like that (just like he grants our wishes), without physically coming down to earth and punish himself for us? If God really wants to lay mercy on to us then why can't he just do it staying in heaven. Is it not that when God says "Be" and it is?
2006-10-28 09:51:22 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
what's the purpose for all the that trouble of being Jesus and all? God is supreme, and he does not need to prove his love to you. You should already feel it.
2006-10-28 09:52:36 · update #1
Any parent or lover knows this: love is chosen. You cannot, in the end, force anyone to love you.
So if you are writing a story where love is the meaning, where love is the highest and best of all, where love is the point, then you have to allow each person a choice. You have to allow freedom. You cannot force love. God gives us the dignity of freedom, to choose for or against him (and friends, to ignore him is to choose against him).
This is the reason for what C.S. Lewis called the Problem of Pain. Why would a kind and loving God create a world where evil is possible? Doesn’t he care about our happiness? Isn’t he good? Indeed, he does and he is. He cares so much for our happiness that he endows us with the capacity to love and to be loved, which is the greatest happiness of all.
He endows us with a dignity that is almost unimaginable.
For this creator God is no puppeteer.
“Trust me in this one thing,” God says to us. “I have given the entire earth to you, for your joy. Explore it; awaken it; take care of it for me. And I have given you one another, for love and romance and friendship. You shall be my intimate allies. But on this one matter, you must trust me. Trust that my heart for you is good, that I am withholding this for a reason. Do not eat of the fruit of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil . . . or you will die.”
And this is where our Story takes its tragic turn.
2006-10-28 09:55:54 · answer #1 · answered by WindWalker10 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
One way to think of this is that God's love for man was such that He couldn't bear it if humans had no door to the truth. Jesus proved God's true nature. We all would be like "doubting Thomas" if we did not have the final proof of truth's power over death. As this concept becomes clearer, so does God's love. Remember, He has laid mercy on us because the door is wide open to all that seek it.
2006-10-28 17:24:12 · answer #2 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That is the way God chose to it and that is good enough for me. If I were you, I would not try to second guess God. That is the same as trying to tell God what to do. He knows exactly what He is doing. He doesn't have to ask you or anyone else anything. He doesn't make any mistakes. He doesn't want or need our opinion, He wants our trust and faith in Him. Just trust and have faith in Him like He asks you to in The Holy Bible. This is my prayer for you.
2006-10-28 17:03:45 · answer #3 · answered by LARRY S 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
For us to save oursleves, he is going to make us have faith and trust in him repent of sins and to have obedience to God. God has sacrificed so very much for us, so what he is asking of us is not so much. God will do it his way amd we should praise him for loving us still and being there and comforting us after all we have done. We dont deserve Gods love but he is unselfsih and forgiving and we should praise him for that!! Amen!
2006-10-28 16:57:17 · answer #4 · answered by yeppers 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God wants heros.
2006-10-28 16:55:30 · answer #5 · answered by injesu 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
did you ever think He wants you to come to Him??? He is God I really think He can manage things on His own,,He don't need us we need Him..
2006-10-28 16:54:23 · answer #6 · answered by I give you the Glory Father ! 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
cosmic glue
2006-10-28 18:47:17 · answer #7 · answered by george p 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋