if there is so much order and the world is so intelligently designed, why do feel the need to create or alter the order of things in order to form civilizations? everytime we lay down a road, every time forests are demolished in order to put up a new mini-mall, isn't this a slap in the face to god's perfect design? why do we bother to shave, bathe, and groom ourselves regularly? shouldn't god's design for us be perfect the way it is? if god designed the earth to have such beautiful sunsets and sunrises, why do some people get stricken with skin cancer for enjoying the sun too much? why would we need to invent things like sun block?
2007-05-11 07:39:24 · 7 answers · asked by just curious (A.A.A.A.) 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
so it's okay to be a glutton as long as you have sunblock?
2007-05-11 07:45:06 · update #1
peacetime, so if that child decorated his/her room with garbage, it would be ok? the parents wouldn't have any problem with it?
2007-05-11 07:50:45 · update #2
I think your questions are valid. But they seem to me to be more about the pupose of life and the purpose of the earth, than about the order of it.
The purpose of the earth and us/human beings being on it is to give us a place to have experiences. Why do we need to have experiences? In order to have a chance to become all the God wants for us. God is our Heavenly Father, and just like parents here on earth, He wants us to grow up to make the best of ourselves. Some will. Some won't. Some will become the best they can be, but will not be the best that can be. It doesn't mean they didn't do just as well as those who go on to be the best of the best. We all have choices. There are rules to living here. When we don't follow them, consequences will follow (either now, or later). This earth was designed to be an excellent testing ground. In it things happen that we might not want to happen, and things that we have no control over. Of course we always have control over how we react to things, but usually very little control over whether something will happen or not. We're not here to be couch potatoes, we're here to begin learning how to become like God. Would you expect a newborn infant to be able to drive a stick shift? or converse with physisists on advanced physics? or convince someone that they have it all wrong? No, of course not. So it is with us. We are, through our experience here, learning a little bit about how to work with others, how to be civil, yet disagree, how to use what we know to help others learn. God's design is flexible enough to allow a lot, but there are consequences if we go too far. Skin cancer if we're out in the sun too much. A person may have the answers to solve the worlds problems, but if they smell so bad that no one can stand to be around them, then who's going to learn their valuable insights? There will always be a good side and a bad side. We learn, among other things while here to judge accuratly.Judging doesn't mean condemning.
2007-05-11 08:00:46 · answer #1 · answered by Tonya in TX - Duck 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Word of God says that cleanliness is next to godliness. God does not desire for us to go around nasty. That is not His nature. That is why we should shower, shave, and groom ourselves. He(God) has no part in darkness, that would be satan. It was God's design for us to be like Hiim. However, when Adam and Eve fell in the Garden of Eden. That did away with all of that. The Word of God also says that it rains on the just as well as the unjust. Who knows why some things happen. Only God does. And not only does He do to suit His perfect will, everything that we endure is made to work out for our good. It may not seem like it at the moment. But God in His Infinite Wisdom knows what is best for us. I recently read a study that says that sun block, although it has been said to prevent this and that on the skin, actually is not as preventive as we have been told. We will understand everything that we ponder about now in the bye and bye. Always remember where in the Word of God when He says that there will be no more crying, no more suffering..... and God shall wipe away every tear from their eyes. May God Bless U.
2007-05-11 14:50:19 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is not fair to look at individual details, but only the big picture as dreamed by IDiots. If you shut out everything else and dream that the world was intelligently designed, then: Isn't the world very intelligently designed?
2007-05-11 14:45:41 · answer #3 · answered by Fred 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, bathing is in the Bible (God can't do EVERYTHING) and maybe God wants a mini mall somewhere, he had to tell someone to build it.
Enjoying something too much is a form of gluttony, a sin, therefore we need sunblock.
2007-05-11 14:44:05 · answer #4 · answered by Stacy R 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I understand where you are comming from,but in all fairness to God...he did not destroy the ozone layer(this is the main reason that we require sunblock)...and no,this world is not perfect in this present state...our ancestors messed that up in the Garden....We will have to wait a short time longer to see the perfection that He Originally had planned for us.
Good question.
2007-05-11 14:47:01 · answer #5 · answered by bonsai bobby 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's like how a parent provides children with a house, but the child is allowed to decorate his or her room. God gives us some creative and innovative freedom to use mind and hands!
2007-05-11 14:44:45 · answer #6 · answered by peacetimewarror 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Are you inferring that perhaps there is no God ?
Would he be just one of the many fictional characters of many bronze age middle eastern goat herders tales and legends ? It makes sense....
2007-05-11 14:45:19 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋