You say your God knows all, so before creating Adam and Eve he knew they would sin, and in turn on Judgement Day Billions of people would be sent to hell and would get tortured for the rest of eternity.
(many peaceful people are not Christians eg. 1 Billion Hindus, 600 million + Buddhists etc.)
So is your God such a entity who knows that at some point Of time would create a creation Whose many(billions) of Sons he knows in advance will suffer eternal pain.
Would he create a creation for whom he knows
one day his own son jesus will suffer very much.
No human father would create a robot if he knew in advance that the Robot would torture his son.
2006-11-04 02:22:58 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Why Not Create A Creation Which Was As Perfect As Him (GOD)
2006-11-04 02:28:45 · update #1
Or torture us! People make out God to seem so evil but these people dont see it that way , they actually think they are so bad that they do not deserve anything its just crazy! I do not believe in the adam and eve story. I do not believe in hell but i do believe in a loving God not a evil one. I will get a lot of thumbs down from overly religious people but i dont care. God did not write the bible nor did it fall from the sky.. How can anyone say its Gods true word when it has changed hands through man for thousands of years. God is loving and kind, not mean and angry .
2006-11-04 02:28:38 · answer #1 · answered by daisy322_98 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You have got to the heart of the philosophical problem at the heart of ALL religions, not just Christiantiy. It is a VERY good question.
I can only give you some thoughts to take away with you. I doont believe this question can be truly answered.
1. God - being beyond all 11 dimensions of superstring theory - is therefore outside time and space. This is probably why God is described as 'knowing everything' because time is not relevant; if you are a being outside time, you could see everything that ever was, is and will be.
2. Free will. We are supposed to have Free Will. That means our lives aren't programmed out for us, we are free to act and make choices, and each time we do, something in the universe changes, however tiny and unimportant it may seem.
3. Jesus. He must have had Free Will too. This means that he could have chosen not to be crucified, and God would have had to accept that choice. It wasn't pre-programmed or predestined, so you can ignore all those fundmentalists who try to point you at Isaiah. We are each of us responsible for our own destinies and so was Jesus.
4. God's plan. If there is one, it will have something to do with our becoming who we are truly meant to be - loving and compassionate human beings who make the world a better palce to be.
5. Other races and religions. This applies to all of them too. If there is a God then He is not a Christian, nor even a human being, nor only interested in this tiny little planet on the edge of one galaxy out of billions in the universe.
6. Hell. This was a myth used to frighten ordinary people in the Middle Ages. Torture and eternal damnation? Tell it to the marines. It's a heresy and the sooner Christians and Muslims discover this, the better. Heaven could be this little green and blue planet if we learned together properly and happily.
2006-11-04 02:34:35 · answer #2 · answered by Phil Ossofer 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God gave his creation the freedom of choice. Did he know how they would choose, probably. That is why he provided a means for their salvation. God himself is a trinity consisting of God the Father, God the Son, and the Holy Spirit, three in one, yet individual. It is true some have trouble in the trinity concept. (I never did) The Bible states the Son was present in creation. So actually they both knew because essentially they are in one. God became man through God the Son to suffer and reconcile to himself that which only God was capable of doing therefore making a way for his creation to be saved. He does not want any to perish, but has given free choice. If you hear the word of God and do not choose or believe what he says to be true it is not his choice. And God knows your heart. Man is not saved by works alone or by being good (your idea of good) that any should boast...scriptural..., you must believe and call on the name of God to be saved. God is bigger than sin, and if you open your heart and mind to him you will not have to ask this question. True peace lies within God & Jesus Christ. May he Bless You and bring you to salvation.
2006-11-04 02:43:38 · answer #3 · answered by Sage 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God gives us this life with a choice. To love Him, or to not. He doesn't want to force anyone to love Him.
It was God's plan all along to give us this choice, that is the purpose of the choice Eve made in the garden of Eden. God made us susceptible to sin for the reason that He wanted us to choose. People ask all the time, "Why did God just stop sin before it started and avoid all the hassle? We could've just been in communication with Him since the beginning, and never been separated from Him." But He didn't want mindless drones created to love Him, He wanted us to come to Him willingly, He wanted us to seek Him out, and make the choice because that kind of love is real. You cannot know the significance or value of that kind of Godly love without experiencing life without it. We cannot make an informed decision on what is good and what is bad unless we experience both. Thus, we cannot experience sin without being succeptible to it. I need to come to my own conclusion that I need God, of my own freewill by experiential knowledge. If he had created us not succeptible to sin, it would mean that either we just did not recognize it, therefore, everything is "right" or, we would have to be omniscent, which defeats the entire purpose.
In case one, where we think everything is right, we essentially would have no conscience. No value of human life or morality or ethics. God does not operate that way, and since we are made "in His image" we adhere to the moral code instilled in us by our Creator.
In case 2 where we are all knowing, this is the same as creating us as drones. We would have full knowledge that bad is bad and good is good and would always follow the good, aka God, and the word "love" would lose all meaning. For what does love mean except in contrast with hate? What is the significance of loving if you didn't have a choice in the matter?
So, the option is to spend the rest of eternity with the One you love, the One who makes you holier with each passing day, the One who will love you and complete you like no human can, or, I believe that if you choose to not allow God in, He is polite and will kindly oblige and step back, and you will spend eternity without God.
2006-11-04 02:37:10 · answer #4 · answered by Samantha 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, God knew and even provided a plan for man to be saved. That plan is Jesus Christ and is described in the garden of Eden as "the seed of the woman" who would bruise Satan's head.
2006-11-04 02:25:42 · answer #5 · answered by Pearly Gator 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
a human father would and does create for destruction...how many human father/mothers abuse their children physically, mentally, & emotionally. girls abort many babies a year. crime on the streets between young men killing eachother off. men creating nuclear weapons and you say no man would create and destroy!! what planet are you living on??
the problems we have are caused many times by the choices we make...and because many of us do not want to take responsibility for our our actions.
God said to trust in him first and to seek him (matthew 6:33), he is to be our first love (commandment #1) but becuase of our selfishness we hurt ourselves.
2006-11-04 02:48:52 · answer #6 · answered by Commander 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He might if he knew that his son could overcome this torture, or that the torture would be necessary to save countless billions of people.
2006-11-04 02:24:45 · answer #7 · answered by czekoskwigel 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
God created man (mankind) with a free will. He wants us to love him because we want to, not because we are programmed to do so. We, therefore, are not robots.
2006-11-04 02:45:26 · answer #8 · answered by quizkid 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i think it's best i describe my belief status: i am a more free-lance individual who believes in what Jesus actually taught, not NECESSARILY what has been reported that he taught.
with respect 2 ur question, clearly, here is evidence of myth and tradition which has not yet left the realm of christian belief.
2006-11-04 02:29:11 · answer #9 · answered by pensive07 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You already asked this same question only you used Tom, pick up a Bible and get your answers there.
2006-11-04 02:25:18 · answer #10 · answered by ? 1 · 2⤊ 2⤋