At questions about 'why God gave us the ability to do evil?', the answer is always free will. It seems God gave us the ability to make choices, and without 'evil' we'd be robots.
Now, how do you know this to be true? I fail to see that. Before the whole forbidden fruit incident, were Adam and Eve robots without the ability to think?
But more importantly, how can you know there are not a million different emotions out there, that God didn't create us with? Sure, we can do good, and love and be friendly or be mean or hate, etc, etc. But how can you know God gave us all the emotions that exist?
If God gave us 500 different emotions, how can you be sure that the 'list of emotions' God had to choose from during Creation, wasn't much longer?
2007-05-15 19:17:10 · 14 answers · asked by ? 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The answer to your question is either "God works in mysterious ways" or "Lack of free will would make us all robots."
I think you covered the second one so the first one must be right.
2007-05-15 19:21:57 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋
If Adam and Eve were "robots without the ability to think" as you put it, they wouldn't have disobeyed, would they? Congratulations, you just defeated your own argument. How does it feel?
As far as emotions, no, we don't know if God gave us all the emotions that exist. We've (temporarily) lost a lot since the fall - in particular, eternal physical life - so it's possible we lost the ability to have certain emotions, too. We just don't know and it really doesn't make much sense to wonder about it. There's nothing we can do about it now.
2007-05-15 19:25:45 · answer #2 · answered by jinxmchue001 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I do not know if God gave us ALL the options.
I believe there are an infinite amount of possibilities.
Why do we only have 5 senses?
Why two arms?
Why did God decide to make us this way?
I couldn't begin to put a dent in the endless possibilities of what realities we could possibly be living besides the one we seem to be in.
Why limit this argument to "emotions"?
I am sure there is an infinite list of characteristics we could have been set with... emotions just being one variable.
I have no idea why we are this way - my place as a believer is to say that we are this way because it is God's will.
2007-05-15 19:28:14 · answer #3 · answered by Searchingforanswers 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maybe there are 500 emotions. Does that change anything for you and I. God gave Adam and Eve free will and tested there judgment with the forbidden apple. They failed the test just as Lucifer did. Just be grateful your fate isn't the same as is Lucifer's. He has already been kicked out of heaven, we have a choice and chance.
2007-05-15 19:30:33 · answer #4 · answered by howdigethere 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Calvinistic interpretation of free will that permeates the Protestant Church says there is no free will. God created some people as logs for His fire and these people had no recourse in life to change their fate for a better outcome. Naturally this fascist Church were able to distinguish who was destined toward which fate. This makes Gods wrath pointless as a preventive remedy for poor character. So I agree, this benighted interpretation of free will is used as a "panacea excuses."
2016-05-19 18:00:01 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In the pre-existence we were given the choice to follow God. If we chose God we went through the veil to earth and given a body. If we chose not to then we wouldn't be here now, we'd be in a spirit prison.
God knew we'd sin though so in the pre-existence two spirits stepped up to atone for our sins--Satan said let me go and I'll have all the glory while Jesus said let me go and all the glory is to my Father.
Adam and Eve were pure and sinless.
2007-05-15 19:24:20 · answer #6 · answered by mosquitoe_13 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Is this the best you can come up with? Puh-leeze sweetie. Don't hang your hopes on maybe's and what-if's.
That's like the question, what if there is something bigger than God? Well who cares? What if there is? That doesn't change the fact that WE are held accountable to God as He has revealed himself.
Oh and go read my post to you in Deke's forum about where you want to live when you move here.
2007-05-15 19:21:53 · answer #7 · answered by Last Ent Wife (RCIA) 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
if Adam and Eve did not have the ability to think, how could they have made the choice to disobey God?
2007-05-15 19:26:08 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Knowing about evil and experiencing it are two different things. We don't have to experience evil in order to know what evil is.
2007-05-15 19:32:28 · answer #9 · answered by hisgloryisgreat 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
“I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.”
- Stephen Hawking
2007-05-15 19:47:55 · answer #10 · answered by kr_toronto 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋