Christians why didn't God just start out with everyone in Heaven? Why did he have to slap them down?

Question

Here on this old crappy Earth with Satan? Does he just enjoy seeing us screw up and sending us to Hell? Whats the deal anyway? And why do we still have monkeys?

Answer 1

We DID start out in Heaven.. as God's Spirit children...

We come to this Earth to receive the gift of a Physical body and to be tested.. the test is not for God to see how we will follow His commandments but for US to KNOW that His judgement is righteous and that the Glories that we receive in Heaven are JUST.

Answer 2

It is like any party. You want a lot of people, but not too many. Otherwise, they drink all your beer and trash your house. It is also more rewarding if you are able to turn people away from your party because they aren't popular enough, thus making you feel more popular.

God also wants to build the mystique of heaven. If we were already there, we would know it's a dump and he's boring as hell. He anticipated this and sent us here and told us tall tales about how great it would be with him. Now he gets the enjoyment of us kissing his arrogant butt while he trashes the earth and undermines man's efforts to improve his life.

He also sent us here so that some people could be thrown in hell. That way, if anyone complains that heaven is lame, he can point to the lake of fire and say 'you are free to go party hopping'. No matter how poor a host he is and how crappy the musical selection, people would say, 'this might be lame and the host might be a pompous %@&, but at least I didn't go to hell.'

Answer 3

We did start out in heaven, or what they call "paradise" in Eden. But we're the ones who screwed up. We listened to Satan so we were sent out of paradise into this earth. And yeah, we're all going to Hell because we listened to satan instead of obeying God. We only can enter heaven again by God's mercy and His forgiveness when we give our lives to Jesus.

Now about monkeys. God also created them didn't He? So they're still here. And its not true that we came from them. Maybe there are several people who act like monkeys but that doesnt mean the whole human race came from those apes.

Answer 4

“Rebekah conceived twins . . . When they had not yet been born nor had practiced anything good or vile, in order that the purpose of God respecting the choosing might continue dependent, not upon works, but upon the One who calls, it was said to her: ‘The older will be the slave of the younger.’” -- Rom. 9:10-12

Of course, if the twins Jacob and Esau had lived previously in a spirit realm they certainly would have built up a record based on their conduct there, would they not? But they had no such record until after their birth as humans.


"Further, Jehovah God planted a garden in E′den, toward the east, and there he put the man whom he had formed. 9 Thus Jehovah God made to grow out of the ground every tree desirable to one’s sight and good for food and also the tree of life in the middle of the garden and the tree of the knowledge of good and bad." -- Genesis 2:8,9

So, the paradise was here on earth not in a spirit realm.

Because Adam and Eve disobeyed God, they lost their right to live in that paradise and his opportunity to gain the right to everlasting life, which right was represented in the fruit of a divinely designated tree in the center of the garden.


"That is why, just as through one man sin entered into the world and death through sin, and thus death spread to all men because they had all sinned." -- Romans 5:12


We inherited from Adam the imperfection. That's why we die. But the Bible says that after that we cease to exist. The afterlife is a false doctrine which has pagan origins.


"For the living are conscious that they will die; but as for the dead, they are conscious of nothing at all, neither do they anymore have wages, because the remembrance of them has been forgotten." -- Ecclesiastes 9:5

The soul that is sinning—it itself will die.” -- Ezekiel 18:4


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http://www.watchtower.org/library/w/2000/10/1/article_02.htm
http://www.watchtower.org/e/20010715/article_01.htm
http://www.watchtower.org/library/w/2002/7/15/article_01.htm
http://www.watchtower.org/library/w/1999/3/15/article_01.htm

Answer 5

God is just an imaginary being made up by story tellers eons ago to satisfy the human need for finding an answer to the uncertainties in their life.

The only real reason for the existence of Heaven and Hell is for you to contemplate committing any sins you were thinking of committing. So why are you questioning what God does.

Questioning your faith is a sin. But to me, questioning christianity and then having people tell me that I'm going to hell is like people telling me that I'm not going to receive gifts for Christmas cause I dont' believe in Santa Claus.

Answer 6

I think that you are a troll and don't really want an answer, but I will give one anyway.
Heaven is a higher energy vibration than earth and we are made of the earth. We must move past this life before we can move to a higher one. This in not a teaching of Christianity, but is one way of looking at it.

Answer 7

hey there , you know ,, actually he did exactly that. God had his kingdom (heaven) right here on earth. Then of course Satan just had to have his stupid rebellion. And of course , here is another fine mess he's gotten us into. The rest is pretty much history. Ciao

Answer 8

He put us here first to test us to see if we're worthy of the kingdom of heaven...if He put every1 in heaven it would be like teachers giving students all A's without doing any work...do the students really deserve it?

Answer 9

Man rebelled against God and sin enter the world.
Jesus came into the world to redeem man from his sin.

Answer 10

He created us for His plan.