...to do what He had planned? Wasn't Lucifer's and Adam+Eve's Fall also a failure on God's side? I know He was disappointed with Lucifer our two ancestors, but how could He not be, at least a little, disappointed with Himself, for what had happened?
2007-05-07 09:48:03 · 35 answers · asked by Trillian, Moon Daisy 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
...I mean, every time a Ceature had a choice between God and something else, the Creature chose something else. Must have meant, if not bad teaching, then at least bad management of the advertizing sector. I mean, if a candidate loses the elections, is that only the voters' doing?
...of course, unless it was all part of the plan...
2007-05-07 10:14:30 · update #1
Well, if god were real (which thank goodness he isn't), yeh, he'd be a total failure. If his goal was to create creatures to worship him, that didn't work. If his goal was to create creatures that had a choice to worship him, why punish us if we don't? And why would god "want us to choose him?" What's in it for god? If not a failure, he's awfully needy for a perfect being.
2007-05-07 09:53:36 · answer #1 · answered by atheist jesus 4 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Why do people expect to have hard nosed questions answered thought their belief systems. You are right so right it is a failure and illogical. The so called answer to your question is God did not expect man to faultier he expected Eve to reject the snakes proposal. "It was a free will experiment." The truth is serves as a cautionary tale he was created in order to keep moral and values in our society and to have a simple explanation to things that did not have one, he was a way to provide a connection a reason for all of us being. I must say he was a beautiful concept until the human flaws started to take over and power plays started to happen. Gods are mere war flags with a moral concept behind them.
2007-05-07 10:10:53 · answer #2 · answered by calmlikeatimebomb 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeshua (Jesus) is the "Lamb slain from the foundation of the world."
G-d knew what was in the heart of man. We didn't know.
He didn't need anyone to teach Him. We would not have known how deep and wide and long and high His love is if we had not needed His mercy.
He does everything well.
As for G-d, His way is perfect.
You should read Perelandra by C.S. Lewis-- His space trilogy-- about a planet where the "Adam" and "Eve" don't fall for the Adversary's bait.
2007-05-07 09:55:18 · answer #3 · answered by No substitute for privacy online 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
We do not have God's view of things and never will, but He is gracious to promise to those who will follow Jesus, that they will "know as they are known".
If you want to know the ending of a story you must book your seat and stay to the end. It will be worth the waiting, "on the Lord" that is.
We simply do not have the capacity nor the mandate to judge God in terms of our limited human concepts of success and failure. These are relative notions and He is a God of absolutes.
You might want to ask yourself the question why God did not destroy mankind in the garden as was justly deserved.
2007-05-07 10:15:36 · answer #4 · answered by movedby 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No. He wanted a world in which love was possible, but cannot make one without free will, moral agents. And wherever there is free will, there exists the possibility that some will reject Him.
Besides, He plans on coming back and kicking toosh and taking names.
2007-05-07 09:56:26 · answer #5 · answered by Deof Movestofca 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
My question is: How do you know what God's plan was?
Many times people assume or "think" they know what they think. Simply put we have no idea what the real plan was, nor can we truly understand it. Just b/c people deceived and betrayed him doesn't mean he didn't realize it or know it was going to occur. Basically saying, how can you know the answer if you really don't know the question.
2007-05-07 10:11:36 · answer #6 · answered by RandomChaos 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Only man believes God has a plan.
2007-05-07 09:54:14 · answer #7 · answered by Ray2play 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Free Will.
Ultimately we must all choose whether or not we wanna do what He wants us to do.
If you raise your children right (and you know whether or not you raised 'em right), and they still end up living foul, is that a personal failure or is that a result of them acting upon their own desires?
Everything/person God created was perfect. The rebellious angel desired worship that wasn't rightfully his and dwelled upon that until it produced sinful results. Adam and Eve could easily have resisted Satan's influence but instead allowed curiosity and the desire to make their own decisions lead to their downfall.
2007-05-07 09:53:31 · answer #8 · answered by DwayneWayne 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
No, God did not fail. He gave us a free will and an angel Lucifer failed, so did Adam and Eve. : )
2007-05-07 10:05:49 · answer #9 · answered by SeeTheLight 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
He screws up all the time
He brings the flood to cleanse the world of wickedness, yet saves 8 sinful people
What did he think was going to happen ??
It's bad planning, plain and simple
2007-05-07 09:55:40 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋