Would you have done it the same way God did?

Question

If you created the universe, would you have interacted with it in the same way God supposedly did, or would you have done it differently? Would you have caused the flood?

Answer 1

It is always easy to be an "armchair coach" and try to second guess the game plan and criticize things that you think were not done right. But part of my understanding of God is that He is onmiscience. That means He has a perfect understanding of everything and how it all works. He can see every possible decision or plan He could have used and how each would work out. From all those plans, He choose the one that would have the very best results in the end.

So while I do not understand everything He is doing, or why -- i am not God -- I can trust Him that it is the right way. Knowing that, I would not have done anything differently.

Answer 2

Clearly if you believe the bible, god messed up and had to start over several times just on this one planet (which, if you believe the bible is the only planet - the rest being just lights in the firmament). Perhaps we are looking at the cosmic Peter Principle and god has risen to the level of his own incompetence.

I think he would have been better served by creating the universe and then letting it evolve on its own. Funny thing about that, if there is a god that's what I believe he did. God as initiator of the big bang makes a hell of a lot more sense than god as the cosmic busy body of the bible.

Answer 3

I would have gone about it in an entirely different way. First, I wouldn't make a whole universe and put life on only ONE planet. That would be dumb. I would put one planet per star and less than 1/10th's of a light-year away.

I wouldn't allow for money to be created. It's a wrong idea.

I wouldn't have flooded the earth, I wouldn't have told anyone to worship me (because then that would be conceited of me), I wouldn't require that anyone try to listen to me.

I would let everything good happen. I would stop wars from happening.

Answer 4

With an imperfect knowledge of the universe or the reasons for why, how, when or at times if God interacted with the universe it would be presumptuous of me to answer your question as if my limited knowledge could correctly second guess that of God.

Answer 5

I would be a totally merciful and loving being. I would have written my scripture on the sky in magic words that everyone would be able to read and understand with perfect clarity. I would have provided food and shelter and all necessities to all my creations.

I would not have punished my children for using free will, but I would not have "invented" murder, rape, child abuse, or any other terrible thing., so there would never be a wrong choice anyway.

I would be what any truly All-Powerful,. All-Knowing, All-Loving Deity must truly be.

Answer 6

I would have...all the evil in the world is a result of free will. Love is the result of free will. For God to create the possibility of love, it had to have the heartache caused by those who choose not to love.

Answer 7

I'm not nearly as intelligent as God...I'd have botched the whole deal, and in the end, probably have trashed the whole project and started over. I'm not sure why He keeps putting up with us, actually...
Luckily for me (not to mention, you, and the rest of the world, too), God has alot more patience than I have

Answer 8

I would not hate my own creation the way that the biblical God does. To hate your creation is to hate yourself. God is obviously the creation of seriously neurotic minds.

Answer 9

god is within us all, it's man kind that got greedy and couldn't stop. we all have brains but some of us used them for the wrong reasons.