If god knows what is going to happen to us while we are on earth, why would he even send us to earth if he knows we are going to fail. And when we fail, we go to hell. It just doesn't make sense to me? If someone could explain it, that would be wonderful.
2007-02-05 15:41:43 · 21 answers · asked by super_mannurse 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Even better - if he can make people any way he wants and knows their destiny in advance (omniscient, right?) why does he choose to make the bad ones and not just the good ones?
Religion just doesn't do very well when you think critically, I'm afraid. It sounds like you may be too smart for it.
2007-02-05 15:46:05 · answer #1 · answered by eldad9 6 · 3⤊ 2⤋
I really don't believe that anyone here on earth can accurately answer that question. Just think about it this way: God created everything in the universe and much of it cannot be explained by even the most brilliant scientists. It only makes sense then that we can't precisely explain our reason for being here on earth. That's the great thing about faith: knowing that we don't know everthing about how the world works so we put our trust in God and that he surely wouldn't have sent us here for nothing. People always want a black and white answer to every question but it just isn't always possible.
2007-02-05 15:55:09 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
No real true loving God would create and design you to suffer in a hell and also claim he was loving and omnipotent and all knowing. For the God of the Bible to be real, hell has to be real, then some of us were made for hell with advance knowledge of God, and so God is not loving, making the Bible a lie and the God in it a literary fiction. The concept of hell and the all-knowing power of God, proves that the loving God of the Bible is unloving, and so is unreal, and does not exist and neither does heaven or hell and all claims are inventions of man. Both claims cannot be true..that God is loving and so loved us he gave his only son for our sins...while at the same time making hell for some of us he so loves. He could have created in any way he wanted if he has all that power and so to do so in the way this book says he did, makes him an especially cruel god. Cruel God and loving god cannot exist at the same time. So the book is a lie..and that god in it does not exist. Perhaps another God does exist..but so far he's not telling me about his presence or threatening me with eternal punishment if I don't behave in a certain way, The one that is doing that in the Bible and other holy books thankfully are inventions of men too bewildered and ignorant of their surroundings to understand how it worked, who attributed everything they needed an answer for, to an unseen entity with all-powerful qualities controllling all. What is amazing is that in spite of all we now know..some people still feel the threat of this being's demands that he be worshipped or else they will be banished to a place of untold suffering, and as before, ignorance perpetuates this mental state.
2007-02-05 16:25:37 · answer #3 · answered by Bluevariable 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
You look asking why God created the human race if he knew what grew to become into going to take place to it. if it is so, then scripture states that once a be conscious leaves God's mouth, it can not and could not return to God till it has carried out what God spoke. yet God additionally is familiar with that he can consistently manage something that would take place as quickly as he has spoken a be conscious. And scripture proves that it is solid. So God works by first coming up and then consistently enhancing his creation to do and be what he needs for it to do and be. think of of him as a exceedingly imaginative artist who likes to create and then to suitable his creation. Even we adult adult males try this. it is why we've variations a million,2, 3 and so on.
2016-09-28 11:49:09 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In the first place, God doesn't send us anywhere. We are conceived here on earth and that is where our lives begin. Also, just because God CAN know the future, doesn't mean he chooses to know it in every individual case. If he looked at your future and KNEW it, you would no longer have free will. Another thing, God loves us all and burning any of us eternally in fire is nothing he has even considered--this is a man-made doctine and not at all in harmony with God's purpose or what he has promised in the Bible. LIFE OR DEATH--those are our options, not heaven or hell.
2007-02-05 17:51:04 · answer #5 · answered by Sparkle1 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Everyone is given the chance to overcome/fail the individual makes all the choices during their life time, when all is said and done it all comes down to you and your chosen way of life. Jesus Christ stated it simply many times you are either with him or against there is no middle, you can't say there is no after life that your a happy atheist till the end then change your mind like Thomas Paine sorry ' no can do ' .
2007-02-05 16:50:43 · answer #6 · answered by S.O.S. 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
We were all made in the image of God. We are basically good. We are beautiful children of God. We only fail when we follow our own way. If we follow the way that God has planned when he made us, we would live well and be happy. We would have actualized the image that is planted within us. He knows the potential that we have within us. And the show isn't over yet. He knows the ending and it is not what you think.
2007-02-05 15:58:48 · answer #7 · answered by tonks_op 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
When He send us down, He is expecting us to do good. But since He gave us free will to make our own choice, He then made a decree of two conditions, His Blessings and His Curse (Deauteronomy 24). Blessings if we do the right thing and Curse if we defy His laws. His Curse will not be like a wrath we have been told many times. It is just that He will turn His back on us and allow anything we regret to happen to us.
2007-02-05 15:53:59 · answer #8 · answered by Rallie Florencio C 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I hope you have a bible...this story explains well. Job chapter 1 and 2.
You assume that people fail...according to this story not all do.
We are given the choice to serve God. Deut 30:19, 20--choose life in order that you may keep alive............"
2007-02-05 16:11:24 · answer #9 · answered by Chef Susy--Cookin it up! 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
What do you expect from someone who would also tell one of his followers to sacrifice his son and then at the very last moment say, it's cool I was just testing you. Or who calls the guy who would give his virgin daughters to a mob of angel rapers a "Just and Righteous" man
2007-02-05 17:26:54 · answer #10 · answered by Rabble Rouser 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋