If God made man in His image....?

Question

How come there ae murderers, terrorists, rapists, racists etc

Answer 1

God gave us free will. There are murderers, and rapists and terrorists etc because mankind uses his free will to do these things. Rejecting God in pursuit of their own agendas. Cant blame God for what they do, they are responsible for their deeds, just as everyone is responsible for their deeds

Answer 2

First, no longer all men are undesirable it purely seems maximum women human beings for some reason have an interest in douche baggage, perhaps that's the undesirable boy element. besides, i think of it fairly is meant that god made guy in his actual image and not his psychological state, yet regardless of if god exchange into sturdy looking and extreme high quality why could you carry on with christianity whilst in the bible women have been made to be something ideal to examine for men. additionally, if we as human beings purely look as though god and we've been given the Earth did no longer the angels get the quick end of the stick, being that they look an identical.

Answer 3

I don't know how much you've read of the Bible but God only says that he made Adam in His image.

Gen 1:27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

You know - there are free Bibles on the internet. You ought to get one and read it for a while.

When Adam gave birth to a son then it was said . . .

Gen 5:3 And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth:

And we say today that "he's the spittin' image of his father" and a daddy who's had problems with alcohol will pass that onto his son and his son and his son too. That's the way life works - so be careful what you do. People today say that what they do are their business and they don't hurt anyone in what they do - but they don't know this - that those things that they do will visit their own children one day.

I know people would like to logically eliminate God in this manner but they forget that God made us not as robots but as intelligent (I know that's stretching it for some but) creatures who are able to make decisions. That's one of the things that seperates us from the animals doesn't it? An animal has a nature - a dog is a dog and a cat is a cat and never the twain shall meet. You don't have a dog acting like a cat and a cat wouldn't be caught dead acting like a dog. But man isn't like that as much - men can do some awful things but what did God say, in His word, to do about those men who do those awful things?

Gen 9:6 Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.

I could list dozens - perhaps a hundred things that God says in His word we're to do when a man does a certain something but, do we do these things? No, if we did there wouldn't be so many problems in today's society because men don't like to get punished where they have to pay up for stealing for example - up to 5 times that which he stole and if he can't pay up then he's sold into servitude until the debt is paid and then he can be let go.

Do we do that? No, that's why stealing is so rampant today -there really is no penalty for it. We don't have jail space (according to regulations of course) for all the people that should be in jail. Is that God's fault?

Are you saying all those things are God's fault?

People never fail me, they want to give evil people the benefit of the doubt all day long but when it comes to giving God the benefit of the doubt - no, He's the Judas goat of all man's troubles.

If that were so, why did He give us such a meticulous example of how to run a country in His word? That's the way our country was first set up to run and it ran really well but when they through the Bible out, as Lenin said "you can't overthrow a country who reads and knows the Bible", you've seen it go downhill ever since. It's like the ole snowball effect once it starts gaining momentum it's impossible to stop.

We all have choices to make but who knows what are the right choices and who has the power to make them?

Did God tell someone to run a plane into the World Trade Centers? God said . . .

Exo 20:13 Thou shalt not kill.

Did God tell the Enron bunch to take the money and run and pay off the government so that they won't come after you?

Exo 20:15 Thou shalt not steal.

Deu 16:19 Thou shalt not wrest judgment; thou shalt not respect persons, neither take a gift: for a gift doth blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous.

Because man does not do these things that God told us to do is why we are producing criminals at an unprecedented rate. As a matter of fact it is getting harder and harder for people to do right because of the ridiculous "laws" that men put on us to try to counteract the results of what they have not done for years. There are over 2 million "laws" on the books today - and people say that the Bible's too hard to understand.

I love it.

Answer 4

Humans are to blame for much of the suffering. They fight wars, commit crimes, pollute the environment, often carry on business in a manner motivated by greed rather than concern for their fellowman, and sometimes indulge in habits that they know can be harmful to their health. When they do these things, they hurt others and themselves. Should it be expected that humans would be immune to the consequences of what they do? (Gal. 6:7; Prov. 1:30-33)
Is it reasonable to blame God for these things that humans themselves do?

Answer 5

Because he also gave us free will to either choose to love Him or choose to reject him.

Even murders, terrorists, rapists and racists are still made in God's image and can still choose God.

Answer 6

Um, yeah. How's about we're imperfect sinners (thanx alot Adam&Eve) who fall short (that's what sin means) of God's perfect standards? The fact that we have any good qualities at all is proof that we are made in his image.

Answer 7

Well nice topic. He created us in his image not in his acting , he gave us the choice to do whatever we want. Whether people rob, rape and murder you cannot blame God for that that's what my grandma did when my uncle was killed , she blamed god for that and asked the same question you did. As i mentioned above god gave us free will to do whatever we want.

Answer 8

Satan's influence, not God's influence.
Satan was a created perfect being until iniquity was found in him. This iniquity was from freedom to choose. Satan became proud, selfish, arrogant, and wanted to be the head over all heaven.

Answer 9

If god made man in his image (and that's a big if), then god isn't as righteous or knowledgeable as we hope.

Answer 10

I was always taught that "...in His image" referred to our being endowed with free will. G-d is not bipedal, has no fingers or eyes, etc.