Does God trust us?

Question

So God created Adam and Eve.

God gave them a choice, eternal life, or knowledge of good and evil. They "chose" good and evil. God was mad.

Adam and Eve had two sons, one killed the other. God was mad.

A few years pass, humanity has spread, they live a Godless life, except for Noah, God is mad. Floods the Earth.

God chooses Abraham to start a great nation. Whole lot of God tells Isrealites something, they do it for like 5 minutes. God is mad.

After all of this God being mad at us (that's just the tip of the iceberg) he stops. He sends Jesus to be a perfect exapmle of a human being, and basically tells us to figure it out.

So does He trust us to figure it out? He's stopped Biblesque examples of His power, so that leads most to believe He has backed up and given us the wheel.

So really does God trust us with this world?

And is Revelations his backup plan incase we screw it up too bad?

But He'd already know if we were going to screw it up.

Uh-oh.

Answer 1

"God gave them a choice, eternal life, or knowledge of good and evil. They "chose" good and evil. God was mad."

God did not exactly give them a choice. God gave them free will and told them not to eat the fruit of the tree of Good and Evil.

If God had not given them a rule to break there would not have been any reason for having free will.

Imagine you have a child. Do you put the child at the edge of a busy road and say, "you choose, run out in the road or not." No, you tell the child "Do not run out in the road." If the child is petulant and insists on disobeying you......

Children are not like adults and often cannot comprehend the consequences of their actions. Adam and Eve were adults. Ignorant, yes, but still adults.

Sooner or later, if you are reasonably normal and love your kids, you have to let them make their own decisions and trust that you have taught them well. If your child makes a bad choice you can grieve, but, you cannot make their decisions for them.

That is unless you decide you want to turn them into slaves to your will. People do that, in the States they put them in jail when they are caught.

God could do that, but, he trusts enough to let us make our own decisions just like any parent eventually decides to trust their children enough to make their own decisions. Sure, you can encourage them to learn good things, give them books. If the kid ignores you what do you do?

Love them.

Answer 2

If God didn't trust us, He'd have negated that whole free will thing.

As it is, He wants us to come to Him of our own free choice, not as if we are just little automatons with no say in the matter.

Jesus did indeed live a perfect life, which made Him the perfect sacrifice for the sins of humanity, and so lifted the bar that separated us from God.

Have you ever considered that the prophecy in Revelation may have already been fulfilled with the destruction of the Roman Empire? After all, Jesus Himself said that even He didn't know the day or the hour of His return, and that it would be a day just like any other with everyone just going about business as usual (see Matthew 24:36-44 for the entire scenario).

Remember, too, that God isn't willing for any of us to be lost (2 Peter 3:9; I'd recommend reading the passage of 2 Peter 3:1-13).

Have a blessed day!

Answer 3

No, God doesn't trust us. He told us in advance that we couldn't make it on our own and we needed to go by His rules to have it better here. Armageddon will be when so many people are breaking God's laws they will start the biggest war ever and kill each other off and only a few decent Christian people are left. It's the atheists and muslims that God knew are going to get us all killed, and it's up to us to keep them from doing it for as long as we can. When they take over, we're in trouble.
And I don't want to die for atheists or allah. Jesus said he came so we can live. Jesus Akbar !

Answer 4

First of all He's not mad anymore.
If He didn't trust us He would have just made us slaves and not given us free will.
We still have examples of His power in the Bible and I know of other examples. Like He took away the all the time constant everyday pain in my knees.
I know an Indonesian Pastor that told us about his family in Indonesia. The year the tsunami happened there....It was the day after Christmas.....just before that the non-Christian government asked the Christians to go up to the mountains to celebrate Christmas so they wouldn't have riots with the muslims who lived in that village. So the Christians all went up to the mountains. The tsunami destroyed their homes, but they all survived.

Answer 5

Do you think God needs to trust? or he controls everything?
I think that one of our bigger errors is to think like the individual is the center. If you think on the Human being like species you will get different conclusions. If you think without using your scale of time as well.
What happen is God things in millions of years instead of 10ths of years?

Answer 6

God Never trust us he given a free choice to like we have to trust god

Answer 7

That's a hard question when you realize that God knows everything about you and knows what your going to do before you do it. So I'm sure he doesn't, because were sinners. But he loves us unconditionally and that's what matters.

Answer 8

I think He trusts us to try our best to move right along this journey called life. I think He trusts that many of us will need to try again. I think that He knows that this is just our learning time and we will all eventually make it.

Answer 9

Does God trust us? I don't know, but He loves us. Unconditionally.

Answer 10

i'm an atheist, and i'm sure there are plenty of logical inconsistencies with the Holy Bible, that we can question and ponder about

but watcha gonna do