If God created us, gave us free will and then left us alone, how can you call him good?

Question

He created us with a sinful nature, gave us free will and then left us to destroy each other, and then tries to convince us it's our own fault. Why?

Answer 1

"And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.” Matt 28:20

God is never gone He is with us, helping us every day.
Guiding and directing our lives. He never left us, atheists and evolutionist have forsaken God and pushed Him out of their lives.

God is still very active in my life.

How about yours?

Answer 2

Well, the facts are right but in the wrong order. humans were not created with a sinful nature. The humans knew no sin, but Satan changed all that. Every human born after Adam and Eve were born in sin.

No Jesus( God ) did let leave us alone, Jesus ( God ) left us humans his spirit called the Holy Ghost also known as the comforter. The way to get the Holy Ghost is to obey Acts 2:38, this is the only way!

Answer 3

God gave us a free will so that we could be exalted to the same position as his son. We are better than the angels because they have only one choice and that is to either be in service to God or have no chance at all. The angels that followed after Lucifer can no longer be in heaven. God did not create us with a sinful nature. Due to the fact that the first man and woman ie Adam and Eve messed up that is what brought sin into the world. God gave us a free will so we could choose him. God wanted us to come to him he did not want to force us to come to him. If we don't choose him we choose to destroy ourselves. That is our fault if that is the choice we make. Like it or not God is a gentleman and he knocks at the door. He does not come into our hearts uninvited.

Answer 4

Your question is not entirely true in content. Yes He created us. But no He did not create us with a sinful nature. When He created us we were in perfect fellowship with Him. We are the ones who chose to disobey what He clearly told us not to do. Yes He gave us the ability to choose (free will). But we carry the repsonsibility for choosing the wrong thing. Yes we certainly are destroying each other. But, it is our own fault. We need to remember that we do have an enemy that is against us.

Let me see if I can put it another way.... We get married and have a child. we don't have to teach this child how to lie etc. this child has the ability to choose what to do and not to do. We tell the kid Not to stay out past 10 pm. He has the ability to coose to obey us, or stay out and disobey us and receive the punishment for disobeying us. Should we expect God to be any different? we are told that God will chastise us as does our earhtly fathers.

Answer 5

1) God gave us free will, but did not give us a sinful nature, that happened a little later

2) God never left us alone, in many(if not all) generations there was someone who God reached out to and was able to help bring back to a closer relationship with him.

3) God has given us a choice to choose him, or to choose the world. so if we choose the world when he has sent some to reach out to us it is our fault.

Answer 6

God did not intend to create a bunch of robots, or automatons.
When God created us with free will, he set out some very simple guidelines.
Man listened to an entirely evil entity, that told him he did not have to listen to God.
Through one man sin entered into a perfect world.
You may not believe this, but the sin that entered into the world has been defeated, utterly overcome, by one of his descendants, who is also God's son.
God has set out more directions to lead us into a perfect exsistence if we just start following the signs.
God did not leave us abandoned, with no way out.
I know the perfect way, you must find it.
You know the way, but you will not accept it.
Many of God's creatures would rathercritisize him than find the way to peace.

Answer 7

God is good! All the time. He didn't give us a sinful nature. Adam chose that for us (with Free Will) when he chose to be disobedient. God loved us enough to make a way for us. He loved us so much that He gave His ONLY son to die for our sins and make atonement once and for all. We are the ones that need to choose Him. Free Will is God allowing us to go our own way with or without him. Personally I perfer walking with Him.

Answer 8

some factors: imagine of God as a be sure. once you've a baby, you'll purchase a crib, paint the nursery, decorate it is going to little teddy bears, or perhaps with. because the youngster grows, you'll change our surroundings: getting a mattress, replacing the paint and ornament, etc. notwithstanding, you already recognize that your infant is someone being, who has their own innovations. So, at the same time as you create/practice/manage their surroundings, optimistically for his or her income, your infant isn't your slave, so, they are allowed to have free will; and the older they are, the added free will you enable. Now, improve that to God and the Universe. Our Dad prepares the international round us, for us, like another loving be sure. notwithstanding, we are free to diminish to rubble, and all that. Secondly, in case you seem on the technology of the Universe, physicists engaged on both the macro and micro scales, specifically Cosmology, and sub-atomic Physics, are searching contained in the very maximum strengthen mathematics some thing that seems very very reminiscent of God. it type of feels the mandatory construction blocks of the universe have a decorate and symmetry that signifies that God exists. no longer evidence yet, to be effective, yet a lot of them imagine which will honestly come contained in the subsequent few years if the artwork retains because it has. IOW, there will be mathematical "evidence" of the supernatural association of the Universe itself, from the tiniest debris, correct on as a lot because the type of each and every thing. So, were this against the law, God has purpose, and ability: He created the Universe and each and every thing in in, a lot as a be sure buys (or builds) a house, and creates an surroundings for his or her children. And, He loves us like a strong be sure loves their children. He needs us to do properly, yet, does no longer stress us to.

Answer 9

i guess whatever you believe he did to us when he created us, we were blessed to be given the opportunity of how it feels like to actually LIVE and to experience having souls. amybe what you call "sinful" nature is not sinful at all, maybe we are just creatures who express themselves in a different way... no matter how destroying we may get, we all should be thankful for the conscious inside us that tells us this is destruction. we are a distinct creatures, part of us is good and the other is bad and maybe that is what makes some of us really passionate.

Answer 10

If we do in fact have free will, then I agree with you. But you are reading theology into your question that is not necessarily there. Can we try an alternative theology?
- God created man good. Man sinned and plunged the rest of the world into sin (doctrine of original sin).
- Sin, including original sin, deserves hell.
- Man has freedom to make day-to-day decisions, with the ultimate destination of Hell. It does not matter what God knows ahead of time, if the ultimate destination for everyone is the same. Make the decisions you want.
- Since all of humanity is sinful, man's heart must be tainted. It is tainted to the point of a complete and total inability to look to God for salvation. We are dead in our sins. Not partially dead, completely dead, zero free will IN THIS SENSE.
- We have nothing to say in our own defense since we stand condemned before the Lord. He would be fully righteous and justified in sending everyone of us to our doom.
- God is the only one that can intervene and save us from hell. He has done this through the work of his Son and the Holy Spirit working in our hearts.
- Therefore God is good.
- If God chooses us rather than the other way around, he is truly almighty and omnipotent.
- If God chooses us rather than the other way around, he is free to choose WHENEVER he wants, and now the predestination and election verses can be read at face value.
- If God chooses us rather than the other way around, this allows the ones he draws to himself, to be completely reliant on him and him alone for salvation rather than any prayer of acceptance to try bringing free will back to man's capabilities. Salvation is an opening of the eyes, you receive your eyesight, you don't accept it as you would a business transaction.
- Do we still sin in spite of our salvation? Of course we do, but it is a struggle now instead of sinning and encouraging others to sin.

Hope that helps.

Answer 11

What's the problem pilgram? On a indivual basis everyone is given a choice to accept God or not. God promised if we live for Him we'll recieve a reward. Everything else is sin and will be judged.