If God showed up would it make a difference? It didn't make a difference when his alleged son showed up?

Question

People still kill, people still die, people still steal.

Matter of fact they stole his clothes and killed him.

So what difference did it make?

Answer 1

The question implies that if a good God exists, then evil shouldn't because God, being all powerful, should stop it.
We need to ask and answer two questions. First, what is evil? It is that which is against God. It is anything morally bad or wrong. It is injurious, depraved, wicked. Some acceptable examples might be murder, rape, stealing, lying, and cheating. Second, if we want God to stop evil, do we want Him to stop all evil, or just some of it? In other words, if just some of it, then why? If He were to stop only part of the evil, then we would still be asking the question, "Why is there evil in the world?"
Let's suppose that someone was about to commit murder. God would have to stop him, maybe whisper in his ear, or if that didn't work, do something a little more drastic, like have something fall on him, or stop his heart, or make his hands suddenly fall off. Anyway, God would have to do something.
What if somebody wanted to steal? God would have to stop him too, right? Undoubtedly, God's imagination would permit a more practical method than I have suggested, but the end results would be the same.
What about lying? If someone were to tell a lie, then to be consistent wouldn't you want God right there to stop that person from lying? After all, He couldn't let any evil occur, could He?
Let's take it a step further. Suppose someone thought something evil. Then, of course, God would have to step in and prevent him from thinking anything bad at all, right? The end result would be that God could not allow anyone to think freely. Since everyone thinks, and no one thinks only pure thoughts, God would be pretty busy, and we wouldn't be able to think. Anyway, at what point do we stop - at the murder level, stealing level, lying level, or thinking level? As your question implies, if you want God to stop evil, you would have to be consistent and want Him to do it everywhere all the time, not just pick and choose. It wouldn't work.
Evil is in this world partly because we give it its place but ultimately because God, in His sovereignty, permits it and keeps it under His control.
Then you might say, "Couldn't He just make us perfect and that way we wouldn't sin?" He already did that. He made a perfect angel, Satan, but he sinned. He made a perfect man, Adam, and he sinned. He made a perfect woman, Eve, and she sinned. God knows what He is doing. He made us the way we are for a purpose. We don't fully understand that purpose, but He does.
God is sovereign; He has the right to do as He wishes. He has the right to permit evil for accomplishing His ultimate will. How can He do that? Simple, look at the Cross. It was by evil means that men lied and crucified Jesus. Yet God in His infinite wisdom used this evil for good. It was on the Cross that Jesus bore our sins in His body (1 Peter. 2:24) and it is because of the Cross that we can have forgiveness of sins.
Consider the biblical example of Joseph in the Old Testament. He was sold into slavery by his brothers. Though they meant it for evil, God meant it for good (Gen. 50:20). God is so great that nothing happens without His permission, and in that permission His ultimate plan unfolds. In His plan He is able to use for good what man intends for evil. God is in control.

Why did Jesus have to die in order for me to go to heaven?
Because the wages of sin is death (Rom. 6:23). Though Jesus never sinned (1 Peter. 2:22), He bore our sins in His body on the cross (1 Peter. 2:24), and died in our place. Instead of God making us pay for our sins, He did it Himself by becoming one of us.
Two things happen when we sin: one to God and one to ourselves. When we sin, God is offended. Why? Because it is His Law that we are breaking. Also, when we sin, we are killed. We don't die right there on the spot, we will face a death that is far more severe. Sin kills us (Rom. 6:23) by causing eternal separation from God (Isaiah 59:2). God hates sin (Hab. 1:13), and sin must be punished. Since we are unable to please God because we are all sinners, He made an offering that is pleasing to Him. That offering was the sacrifice of Jesus on the cross. There was no other way. If there were, God would have done it.

Answer 2

It's a matter of opinion. Sure Jewish & Muslims do not believe in jesus, but Christians & Catholics do. But if you sit down & read the Bible the Koran & the Torah they all have the same message just in many different words and languages. In all of them they say approxiamtely the following:

Do not steal
Do not kill
Love your brother
Love God

**Treat people the way you want to be treated.**

It doesn't matter what you believe you could be an atheist but if you have general VALUES for mankind you would not do such thing.

The answer to your question is no, It woulnd't matter because there would still be people in crowd who are skeptic, just like their were what Jesus was on earth. No body believes in anything anymore, we have demeaned Christmas, Easter Valentine's Day, Hanukkah, Passover, etc. Even the most Sacred of Holidays you are suppsoed to spend with faimly has turned into gifts & fighting. It's sad but it's true.

Answer 3

Phew!
Just for fun, I clicked on your avatar. You sure do have a lot of questions dontcha?
Most of them are just too intelligent for me to answer. No, I'm not stroking your ego,( well maybe just a little) but really, I cant help thinking you'd make a really good convert to Christianity! You've asked basically every single tough question there is! You certainly are prolific. Although, I didnt see the dinosaur question there. Or maybe I didnt get that far - sorry, I only read the first page.
Us Christians have obviously ticked you off good and proper. Understandable.
Really, I would love to give you the smart. witty answers you are looking for, but I dont have them. God does though. Yes, I know how smarmy that sounds. But next time you have a question, instead of posting it on Yahoo where us twits have a go at it, just sit quietly and ask your question aloud to God. Who knows? He may just answer you.
Humour us. Try it. If it doesnt work, and he doesnt speak to you, then you'll have even more material to work with!!

Answer 4

We all have a free will.....I believe that it originally did make a difference and still has an impact today. Just look at the religion Christianity! That is the difference it made. A bunch of people have decided to worship God and praise him for sending his son Jesus to die! If God showed up again today, we would all be shaken up because of his glory. In the Bible it says his return is soon and he will come again when we least expect it so to answer your question, i think there was a huge difference made tehe first time and if God came again to thie world now, everyone would see his power and fear him....that is the difference that will be made. In the bible it says that, "every knee will bow and every tongue will confess taht Jesus Christ is Lord.

Answer 5

if god showed up then we will just have to see the results, and his son did make a difference now you have a choice of religion, before there was only the Jewish, and since his alleged son showed up he founded Christianity then came Islam, so you could look at it that way he opened the door to diverse belief, and if you could be a little more clear please? I don't understand quite well , What kind of difference would you like to see?

Answer 6

figuratively God shows up when people suffer natural disasters or personal tragedy... THAT is what gets ones attention, the FEAR of God. Jesus was just a Christian dude with alot of hullabaloo created... kinda like a mass-scale paris hilton (in 100 years historians will ask why? what did she do???)

bad example lets say instead... ronald reagan because at least he had SOME juice (actor, con man VERY popular if right wing bigotted president, led the free world leader USA for 8 years).... but the fallout has him standing tall as one of the all time greats in history of man.

but GOD would be the real straw that stirs the drink. he would make people be nicer and better by terrifying them within an inch of their lives.

if I was God 1st thing would be to cmake mel gibson suck a big'un and then put my ex-wife in from of the town hall with a sign stating 'strumpet, harlot, infidel' and the yokels would all throw tomatoes at her

Answer 7

It made a HUGE difference to those who CHOSE TO BELIEVE! Sure, terrible things still happen, but God doesn't MAKE them happen. They occur in accordance to the seeds of evil in man's hearts and minds being allowed to maturate and grow into a sinful act aggression of some sort, instead of being laid down at an altar in prayer when we as individuals are no longer able to resist the temptations being laid before us.

Answer 8

First of All let me we need to knwo the fact that Jesus was not son of God. He was a great messanger from God. He was here to convey the message of God. He did exactly what other prophets(messengers) did. Now what message did he delivered? If we closely examine the messages/teachings of prophets and follow them I am 100% sure that all of your problmes like killing, stealing, deceiving are gone. So if these things are happening they are the faults of humans rather bad humans not the faults of God. Why do most of people eat pig, do illegal sex, insult parents, break the law, do robbery and kill others for their wordly desires. Did Jesus or anyother prophets ask them to do?

Answer 9

It made a very big difference apparently. First as in Adam all die, so in Christ all are made alive. He gave us resuurection. He gave us forgiveness of sins. He will form the perfect world in just a few years when the wicked will be burned like stubble and he will rule in a peaceful world, with no crime, no lieing, no stealing, no adultery and on and on. I can't wait to walk outside or anywhere in the earth and not be looking over my shoulder at someone who wants to steal, or even do me in.

Answer 10

It made a big difference when Jesus was born. Christianity soon followed God gives us free will to do with what we want. It is up to us to make the right decisions or face the consequences.