why did he kill the entire population in Noah's flood when he knew what was going to happen when he created adam and eve?
Yes I am atheist, just looking for christian answers.
2007-02-02 11:15:45 · 6 answers · asked by Jason Bourne 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
That's a pretty big question. And I suppose as an atheist there really is no provable or "right" answer to that question. And I suppose there is a group of biblical quotes I could use, but really they wouldn't mean much to someone who isn't a biblical literalist (which by the way I'm not). So here's my personal take as a "non-mainstream" Christian.
I believe that we are here to learn. What we go through, making our way through disasters and sorrows and horrors of being human on this Earth, is an essential part of that learning. I believe that it is a sin and a tragedy when horrors happen and we don't learn from them. Or we create our own nightmares and keep repeating them.
God didn't kill anyone, despite what the bible says. People die because that's how human bodies work. As a matter of faith (not logic) I believe that we are more than bodies and that our spiritual selves move on to other places to learn after we finish here.
Natural disasters happen because that's the way the world works. God's purpose in putting us here is to see each others pain and try to stop it. To see our own pain and learn from it. To watch the world around us and learn from it, see the pretty things and ugly things and find the beauty in it.
So, I think that God knew that Eve would take the apple and that Adam would eat it. God also knew that we'd eventually make our way back to were we as humans spirits started, but be much wiser for the journey. Fluffy and illogical I know, but you asked about a matter of faith not science.
2007-02-02 11:56:28 · answer #1 · answered by jennette h 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When God created Adam, did he know that Adam would sin?
Here is what God set before Adam and Eve: "Be fruitful and become many and fill the earth and subdue it, and have in subjection the fish of the sea and the flying creatures of the heavens and every living creature that is moving upon the earth." "And Jehovah God also laid this command upon the man: 'From every tree of the garden you may eat to satisfaction. But as for the tree of the knowledge of good and bad you must not eat from it, for in the day you eat from it you will positively die.'" (Gen. 1:28; 2:16, 17) Would you encourage your children to undertake a project with a marvelous future, knowing from the start that it was doomed to failure? Would you warn them of harm, while knowing that you had planned everything so that they were sure to come to grief? Is it reasonable, then, to attribute such to God?
Matt. 7:11: "If you, although being wicked [or, "bad as you are," NE], know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more so will your Father who is in the heavens give good things to those asking him?"
If God foreordained and foreknew Adam's sin and all that would result from this, it would mean that by creating Adam, God deliberately set in motion all the wickedness committed in human history. He would be the Source of all the wars, the crime, the immorality, the oppression, the lying, the hypocrisy, the disease. But the Bible clearly says: "You are not a God taking delight in wickedness." (Ps. 5:4) "Anyone loving violence His soul certainly hates." (Ps. 11:5) "God . . . cannot lie." (Titus 1:2) "From oppression and from violence he [the One designated by God as Messianic King] will redeem their soul, and their blood will be precious in his eyes." (Ps. 72:14) "God is love." (1 John 4:8) "He is a lover of righteousness and justice."-Ps. 33:5.
2007-02-02 19:25:30 · answer #2 · answered by Janos 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Jehovah gave them the command to become fruitful and become may and fill the earth and subdue it, and have in subjection the fish of the sea and the flying creatures of the heavens and every living creature that is moving up the earth" And Jehovah God also laid this command upon the man: From every tree of the garden you may eat to satisfaction. But as for the tree of the knowledge of good and bad you must not eat from it, for in the day you eat from it you will positively die. Gen 1:28; 2:16. 17
would you encourage your children to undertake a project with a marvelous future, knowing from the start that it was doomed to failure? Would you warn them of harm, while knowing that you had planned everything so that they were sure to come to grief? Is it reasonable then to attribute such to God?
2007-02-02 19:36:09 · answer #3 · answered by Here I Am 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just bc God foreknows something doesn't mean He causes it. God can move through time to see the future and know what we'll do without ever taking part in the decisions we make. He does, however, try to influence us to reject evil, but we still sin on our own.
God wanted a real relationship with us, and evidently He decided that the cost of ppl denying Him for no good reason was worth having that relationship. What we think God should do is irrelevant, since, unlike Him, we're not all-knowing or in possession of infinite power and wisdom. We have to trust God to know and do what is best for everyone.
2007-02-02 19:40:41 · answer #4 · answered by STEPHEN J 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes God is love.
No, God doesn't know everything that will happen.
Adam's clan was being infiltrated with progeny of fallen angels.
Study God's Word and you will know much more than you do now.
Or stay ignorant and perish.
2007-02-02 19:23:04 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
sorry i am not Christian
but i do not believe that God knows everything and i believe this is one reason why so many people either hate or love God ... because they think he does know everything
so they either fear him due to repercussions of their actions
or they hate him thinking that he could do something about suffering
2007-02-02 19:21:27 · answer #6 · answered by Peace 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋