Then he obviously knew that satan was going to tempt man from the very beginning, and he knew that we were going to fail the test, so why didn't he wipe everything clean and start over?
2007-02-07 06:12:13 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
no kidding, he wiped everybody out with a flood, but he wouldn't scrap two people and start over? I don't think he knew how he created humans in the first place so he couldn't just recreate them
2007-02-07 06:21:17 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You are forgetting that "the only stone God can not lift is the one he promises not to." God gave Man (and Woman) Free Will, He can't take it back. The Wrong exercise of Free Will has consequences, these aren't God's fault, they are OURS, and while God IS Omniscient, this means He can see All Futures, but since He gave us Free Will, He can't choose them for us. Lucifer's fall was because God put us OVER the Angels, because we were made in God's Image, because we have Free Will and the Angels don't. The fallen Angels couldn't understand why God put us over Angels even when we didn't obey and they did. The angels still don't have free will, they still are following God's Will. They are just making us understand the consequences of warping the use of God's Gift.
2007-02-07 06:34:01 · answer #2 · answered by johnseastep 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My answer will not be biblical, it is only my opinion.
God being all knowing, He knows good and bad, and because of this something or somebody must represent the bad because God represents the good. And that is when satan existed. It all existed in God's mind. The humans existed in God's mind out of great love. And because of this we were created. Satan being the bad cannot accept that, so he wanted to fight with God. But God is good and just, God will not fight satan because it is not a fair fight, it will be creator versus creation. So then God made humans to exist to fight satan, and it will be a fair fight because it will be creation versus creation. Satan was winning the battle but God have a greater plan, He went to earth in the form of a human and as a human in the form of Jesus He conquered Satan and win the battle for us.
2007-02-07 08:39:18 · answer #3 · answered by dm-dnd 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"It's not logically possible to have free will and no possibility of moral evil." "That's what free will means. Built into the situation of God deciding to create human beings is the chance of evil and, consequently, the suffering that results."
He can't give us free will while at the same time keeping evil from existing. It would be a self-contradiction.
2007-02-07 06:32:42 · answer #4 · answered by BaseballGrrl 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Do you think that's also why Adam was made to till the ground in the Garden of Eden before he was "punished" with tilling the ground outside the garden?
And do you think maybe that's why God told Adam and Eve "be fruitful and multiply" before he "punished" Eve with the pain of childbirth?
From my perspective, the serpent was the only one of the three characters in the Garden actually punished or cursed. The only "curse" Adam and Eve got was "knowledge".
(Come to think of it, God could have made actual poisonous trees instead of one that gave knowledge and one that gave eternal life.)
2007-02-07 06:23:54 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
That would be why He sent His only Son, Jesus Christ, to die for our sins so we all would not have to die in our sins. Because He has done that, it is up to us now. It is an individual thing. It is called free will. You either choose life in Him or you don't and face the alternative. May God Bless U.
2007-02-07 06:20:48 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Or better yet why create it that way in the first place?
2007-02-07 06:15:19 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Free Will, Would you like to be a robot?
2007-02-07 06:16:41 · answer #8 · answered by TULSA 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
And if man could not withstand temptation, how would he learn his lessons?
2007-02-07 06:17:21 · answer #9 · answered by jmmevolve 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
how dare you disrespect your god! just kidding maybe that was the plan all along
2007-02-07 06:16:38 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋